The authors describe evaluation as a way of understanding and developing language programs: the thematic and background section sets out the decision-making, quality management, and learning functions of evaluation.
Winner - British Council Innovation in English Language Teaching Award 2006 This book was written for language teachers by language teachers, with a... Læs mere
This work is a timely contribution to the debates surrounding feminism, theatre and performance. The excellent, cross-generational mix of theatre scholars and... Læs mere
This book combines the work of nine leading teachers and scholars of children's literature from Europe and North America. They explore the various disciplines and... Læs mere
This collection of original essays discusses the implications of the new media for the creation, delivery and assessment of English studies.... Læs mere
From Civil Rights to Armalites traces and analyses the escalation of conflict in Northern Ireland from the first civil rights marches to the verge of full-scale civil war in 1972, focusing on the city of Derry.
The idea of social exclusion is part of the new political language. Ruth Levitas argues that there has been a shift away from understanding social exclusion as primarily a problem of poverty, towards questions of social integration through paid work and moral regulation.
A state of the art critical review of research into literature in language education of interest to teachers of English and of modern foreign languages. The primary focus is on language of literature, reading of literature, literature as culture, and literature in education.
Financial econometrics is one of the greatest on-going success stories of recent decades, as it has become one of the most active... Læs mere
This book explores the contemporary nature of Max Weber's work by looking in detail at his key concepts of rationalization and... Læs mere
Part 3 provides a template for research activity and suggestions for projects and methodologies, and Part 4 collects resources for readers keen to follow up the themes developed in the book.
Language, Nation and Power provides students with a discussion of the ways in which language has been (and is being) used to construct national (or ethnic)... Læs mere