Language Debates
Theory and Reality in Language Learning, Teaching and Research
$88.98
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
22 February 2022
Summary
This book captures an urgent moment for language teaching, learning and research. At its core are a series of debates concerning gender stereotyping, the place of linguistics in modern languages, language activism, multilingualism and modern languages and digital humanities. Taken together, these debates explore the work that languages, and that those who learn and speak them, do in the world as well as the way we think ‘through’ and ‘in’ a language and are shaped by it.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529372250 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529372259 |
| Author: | Debra Kelly, Ana Maria Sousa Aguiar de Medeiros |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Languages |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 22 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 134mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Language Acts and Worldmaking |
About The Author
Debra Kelly
Ana de Medeiros is Director of the Modern Language Centre at King’s College London. In 2017 she was elected Vice-Chair of the UK Association of University Language Communities (AULC). Ana co-leads the research strand ‘Language Transitions’ with Debra Kelly as a member of the Centre for Language Acts and Worldmaking at King’s College London. In 2020 she was invited to join the scientific board of the Language Learning in Higher Education Journal. Throughout her academic career she has studied the lifewriting of women writers. She has published in English, French and Portuguese on, Francophone and Lusophone literary and cultural studies, focusing primarily on questions of identity in the work of a number of authors including Marguerite Yourcenar, Assia Djebar Amelie Nothomb and Marie Nimier.
Debra Kelly is Professor Emerita in Modern Languages, School of Humanities, University of Westminster, London. In 2005 she received the award of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques from the French Government in recognition of her services to French language, literature and culture. She has published widely in French and Francophone literary and cultural studies. Her research now focuses on the historical and contemporary French and Francophone communities in London, and she recently authored Fishes with Funny French Names: The French Restaurant in London from the 19th to the 21stCentury (2021). Since 2008, she has been Co-Director of Routes into Languages London, a programme which supports and encourages language learning from primary through to higher education with a focus on access and widening participation. She is also Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London working with the Centre for Language Acts and Worldmaking in King’s Art and Humanities Research Institute and co-leads the research strand ‘Language Transitions’ with Ana de Medeiros.
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