"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more
To find some answers Tim Machan explores the language's present and past, and looks ahead to its futures among the one and a half billion people who speak it. His search is fascinating and important, for definitions of English have influenced education and law in many countries and helped shape the identities of those who live in them.
This volume provides a new perspective on the evolution of the special language of medicine, based on the electronic corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts, containing over two million words of medical writing from 1500 to 1700.
Brand names and unconventional spelling: A two-pronged analysis of the orthographic construction of brand identity Andrew D. Wong 115 – 145
PolyOrth: Orthography, phonology and morphology in inheritance lexicons Lynne Cahill, Carole Tiberius and Jon Herring 146 – 185
Effects of the Content and Language Integrated Learning approach to EFL teaching: A comparative study Jose Goris, Eddie Denessen and Ludo Verhoeven 186 – 207
Development of reading comprehension from middle childhood to adolescence: Distributional and qualitative analyses of two genres Dafna Kaplan 208 – 240
The influences of gender, reading ability, independent reading, and context on reading attitude: A multilevel analysis of Hong Kong data from PIRLS Shek Kam Tse, Xiao-yun Xiao and Wai-yip Lam 241 – 271
Mark Sebba, Shahrzad Mahootian and Carla Jonsson (eds.). Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing. Approaches to Mixed-Language Written Discourse Reviewed by Katja Wermbter 273 – 278
Roger Beard, Debra Myhill, Jeni Riley and Martin Nystrand (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Writing Development Reviewed by Rachel Schiff 279 – 280
Kate Pahl and Jennifer Rowsell (eds,), Early childhood literacy Reviewed by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer 281 – 284
Katja Siekmann. Der Zusammenhang von Lesen und (Recht-)Schreiben Reviewed by Martin Neef 285 – 287