From the Preface:

This book is intended for graduate courses in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition or for advanced levels of undergraduate teacher education programs.

I hope also that practicing teachers will read the book as a source of professional development, as well as other educators, curriculum designers, and administrators working in a variety of second language instructional settings, whether content-based or not.

While the book aims to enable educators in immersion and content-based classrooms to consider ways of integrating more focus on language, I hope as well that it will inspire educators in traditional language classrooms to consider integrating more content-based instruction as a means of enriching classroom discourse.

This comprehensive and detailed analysis of second language writers' text identifies explicitly and quantifiably where their text differs from that of native speakers of English. The book is based on the results of a large-scale study of university-level native-speaker and non-native-speaker essays written in response to six prompts. Specifically, the research investigates the frequencies of uses of 68 linguistic (syntactic and lexical) and rhetorical features in essays written by advanced non-native speakers compared with those in the essays of native speakers enrolled in first-year composition courses.

The Translator's Invisibilty traces the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day. It shows how fluency prevailed over other translation strategies to shape the canon of foreign literatures in English, and investigates the cultural consequences of the domestic values which were simulateneously inscribed and masked in foreign texts during this period.

I have been learning languages for over 40 years and during that time I have developed very specific methods for successful language learning. In my book you will find the story of how I came to speak 9 languages and how I have gradually developed my own system for language learning. Along the way you will see how speaking many languages has brought me personal success and enjoyment.

All organisms, from bees to computer networks, create signs, communicate, and exchange information. The field of semiotics explores the ways in which we use these signs to make inferences about the nature of the world.