Foreign Language Learning and Use: Interaction in Informal Social Networks

It is commonly believed that foreign language skills improve through social interaction with speakers of the language. However, there is little research addressing the issue of access to such interaction. This book explores this issue, examining longitudinal case studies of interaction between language learners and speakers of the target language within their informal social networks. It looks at the complex social and personal factors that influence language choice. Kurata reveals that even for motivated

 

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Foreign Language Learning and Use: Interaction in Informal Social Networks

The author examines longitudinal case studies of interaction between language learners and speakers of a target language within their informal social networks.

Charon's Landing

Russian mastermind Ivan Kerikov is being paid millions by a rogue Arab oil minister who is plotting a coup in his own country and, being in desperate need of foreign income, wants to force the United States from domestic to foreign sources of oil. Ivan’s task is to sabotage the Alaska pipeline.

Lexical Errors and Accuracy in Foreign Language Writing

This book explores how lexical competence develops in a foreign language, and also argues for the importance of lexical accuracy as a measure of the quality of foreign language writing and as an indicator of receptive vocabulary knowledge.

Protestantism and Patriotism Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy 1650_1668Protestantism and Patriotism offers a fundamental reinterpretation of English political culture between1650 and 1668. It is also both the most detailed study to date of the causes and consequences of the first two Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1654 and 1665-1667), and a reconfiguration of the English political nation which engaged in those two conflicts.