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Ahn, Hyunah, Ed.; Vidal, Mónica, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2012
The theme for this year's College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa was "Language and Community," bringing together graduate students and faculty members from the Departments of East Asian Languages and Literatures (EALL), Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures (IPLL), Languages and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Planning, English for Special Purposes
Brock-Utne, Birgit, Ed.; Skattum, Ingse, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2009
The theme of this book cuts across disciplines. Contributors to this volume are specialized in education and especially classroom research as well as in linguistics, most being transdisciplinary themselves. Around 65 sub-Saharan languages figure in this volume as research objects: as means of instruction, in connection with teacher training,…
Descriptors: African Languages, Language Planning, Multicultural Education, Beginning Reading
Quinn, T. J.; Trounce, M. – 1985
A comparison of British and Australian experiences with language awareness curricula and the contexts in which they have been offered led to three conclusions: (1) language awareness courses are not a panacea for the problems of the second language teaching profession, and should not be designed both to contribute to the success of the foreign…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Education, Cultural Awareness, Educational Objectives
Christian, Donna – 1999
Ways in which the field of applied linguistics is evolving in the changing global context are examined. After a brief review of the field's history in the late twentieth century, and of the development of a number of related professional organizations, the emergence of applied linguistics as an interdisciplinary endeavor is discussed. Major areas…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Business Communication, Educational Innovation, Educational Policy