Language Learning

"This four-skill textbook is truly the key to mastery for intermediate and advanced students since it focuses on independent language production through the ability to narrate, describe, compare, and explain." - Irina Six, The University of Kansas, USA 

Russian: From Intermediate to Advanced is a vibrant and modern course designed to help students achieve advanced proficiency in Russian. Offering a flexible modular approach structured around contemporary themes, the course further develops reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills while also expanding the student’s cultural literacy. This title also comes with a companion website. 

More information can be found here and instructors can request an e-inspection copy here. 

Understanding the Chinese Language provides a vibrant and comprehensive introduction to contemporary Chinese linguistics. Combining an accessible style with an in-depth treatment of the topics at hand, it uses clear, full descriptions and vivid, modern examples to systematically take students through the phonology, vocabulary, grammar, discourse structures and pragmatics of modern Chinese. No prior knowledge of Chinese or linguistics is required. Free eResources can be found here and instructors can request an e-inspection copy here. 

New this month, Colloquial Burmese:The Complete Course for Beginners comes in either paperback, audio, or a pack of both. This essential content for beginners is interactive, clear, practical, and complete. Read more here. 

In the newly published Vietnam War Slang, Tom Dalzell investigates and explains the terms invented in the face of a conflict that transformed America. Find out more here and recommend it to your librarian today, 

Praise for Vietnam War Slang: "It should be in every American library, on every word-lover’s bookshelf, and assigned in every university course about the period or the phenomenon of the Vietnam War." - Michael Paul Adams, Indiana University, USA 

If you will be at the British Association for Applied Linguistics' Conference September 4th to September 6th, make sure to visit the Routledge table. We look forward to seeing you there!

Congratulations to Suresh Canagarajah, whose book Translingual Practice was honored with the 2014 BAAL Book Prize. Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations introduces a new way of looking at the use of English within a global context. Challenging traditional approaches in second language acquisition and English language teaching, this book incorporates recent advances in multilingual studies, sociolinguistics, and new literacy studies to articulate a new perspective on this area.

View the first 30 pages and request a complimentary e-inspection copy.

Praise for this book

"Canagarajah has done it again. Just when you may have thought it was safe to retreat to the confines of disciplinary discipline and conceptual conformity, he produces a work that necessitates a serious re-examination and re-appraisal of what language study is, or should be, about. This masterful book will be essential reading for anyone seeking answers to the question: How do we do linguistics in a globalized world?"

- Alan Firth, Newcastle University, UK