Language Use and Language Learning in CLIL Classrooms

This volume explores a highly topical issue in second and foreign language education: the spreading practice in mainstream education to teach content subjects through a foreign language. CLIL has been enthusiastically embraced as a language enrichment measure in many contexts and finally research can offer principled insights into its dynamics and potentials. The editors’ introductory and concluding chapters offer a synthesis of current CLIL research as well as a critical discussion of unresolved issues relating both to theoretical concerns and research practice.

Discourse in English Language Education

Discourse in English Language Education introduces students to the major concepts and questions in Discourse Studies and their applications to language education. Each chapter draws on key research to examine critically a particular approach in the field, providing a review of important literature, examples to illustrate the principal issues concerned and an outline of the implications for their application to pedagogy.

Improve Interpreting Skills (Совершенствуйте устный перевод)

Пособие является продолжением широко известного пособия «Учитесь переводить» этого же автора, выпущенного издательством в 1962 году. Оно представляет собой сборник диалогов, в которых один из собеседников говорит на русском, другой на английском языке. Темы диалогов следующие: образование, литература, театр, музыка, изобразительное искусство, кино. Пособие предназначено для всех лиц, совершенствующих устный перевод.

The Cognitive Linguistics Reader (Advances in Cognitive Linguistics)

Cognitive Linguistics is the most rapidly expanding school in modern Linguistics. It aims to create a scientific approach to the study of language, incorporating the tools of philosophy, neuroscience and computer science. Cognitive approaches to language were initially based on philosophical thinking about the mind, but more recent work emphasizes the importance of convergent evidence from a broad empirical and methodological base.

Dialogue in Foreign Language Education

Dialogue in foreign language education is a collection of studies that explore topics important in contemporary foreign language education, such as: academic discourse, intercultural communication, the use of information technology, critical reading, the development of communicative skills, anxiety in foreign language learning.
Researchers from Poland and abroad discuss the interplay between various factors influencing foreign language learning and teaching. The publication consists of eleven chapters, each followed by comments in which their authors dialogue with the opinions expressed in the chapters.