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The New Political Sociology

Power, Ideology and Identity in an Age of Complexity

The 21st century has witnessed a fundamental transformation of political institutions and society, alongside cultural, global and complexity turns in social theory. This provocative text gives an overview of key issues, argues for an 'existential turn' in political sociology and brings the study of politics and society up to date.

Sheller, M. (2001) The Mechanisms of Mobility and Liquidity: Re-thinking the
Movement in Social Movements ... Snow, D., Rocheford, E., Worden, S. & Benford
, R. (1986) “Frame alignment processes, micromobilization and movement ...

Refugees and the Meaning of Home

Cypriot Narratives of Loss, Longing and Daily Life in London

This book explores the meaning of home for Cypriot refugees living in London since their island was torn apart by war. Taking an innovative approach, it looks at how spaces, time, social networks and sensory experiences come together as home is constructed. It places refugee narratives at its centre to reveal the agency of those forced to migrate.

Hannam, K., Sheller, M. and Urry, J. (2006) 'Editorial: Mobilities, immobilities and
moorings', in Mobilities 1(1): 1–22. Hartman, G.H. (ed.) (1994) Holocaust ...
Hoffman, E. (1998) Lost in Translation. London: Vintage. Hollander, J. (1991) 'It
all ...

Policy Perspectives on Educational Testing

America faces a crisis in education and its accompanying effects on the nation's economic and social life. Educators and policy makers need to document the extent of this crisis, to gauge its potential impact, and to develop educational strategies that would boost achievement; this has turned the spotlight on educational assessment - the procedures, practices, and tools that educators use to measure the progress of students, both as individuals and groups. This book deals with a range of issues within the field of educational assessment, with an emphasis on those issues that have sparked the public policy debate in recent years. Much of this volume concerns itself with the impact of testing on various subgroups of the population - blacks, Hispanics, young children, and children considered to be of `below average' ability. Taken together, the contributions to this volume represent a broad range of views on differential test performance. (This book is part of the subseries of books based on the Ford Foundation's National Commission on Testing and Public Policy. Previous titles in this program include Gifford & Wing/Test in Defense, Gifford & O'Connor/Changing Assessments, Gifford/Test Policy and the Politics of Opportunity Allocation, and Gifford/Test Policy and Test Performance.)

... than forHispanic students. Thismay bedue,at leastin part, toanincreasing
proportion ofrecent immigrants among the Hispanic population and an attendant
increasein theproportion of Hispanic students for whom English is a second
language ...

Assessing Second Language Pragmatics

The first book-length collection of studies on the assessment of pragmatic competencies in a second or foreign language. Grounded in theoretical perspectives on communicative and interactional competencies, it examines the reception and production of speech acts through a variety of assessment methods and quantitative and qualitative analyses.

Pragmatics is a key domain in language assessment. For more than two decades
, advances have been made in conceptualizing the domain, developing
assessment instruments, and applying current methods of data treatment to the
analysis ...

Extending the Boundaries of Research on Second Language Learning and Teaching

The book contains a selection of papers reflecting cutting-edge developments in the field of learning and teaching second and foreign languages. The contributions are devoted to such issues as classroom-oriented research, sociocultural aspects of language acquisition, individual differences in language learning, teacher development, new strands in second language acquisition research as well as methodological considerations. Because of its scope, the diversity of topics covered and the adoption of various theoretical perspectives, the volume is of interest not only to theorists and researchers but also to methodologists and practitioners, and can be used in courses for graduate students.

Research on learning and teaching second and foreign languages represents an
very rapidly developing and vibrant field, which is evidenced by the multitude of
conferences, journals, edited collections and monographs dealing with various ...

Second Language Identity in Narratives of Study Abroad

This book brings together three important areas in language teaching and learning research by exploring the impact of study abroad on student's second language identities through narrative research.

The title of this book includes three terms that have opened up new and exciting
areas in second language learning research: narrative, second language identity
, and study abroad. In this introduction, we explain how these three concepts ...

Politeness and Culture in Second Language Acquisition

This book examines the importance of politeness in pragmatic expression and communication, making a significant contribution to the debate over whether the universal politeness theory is applicable globally regardless of cultural differences.

strategy employed by learners, and show the level of progress learners are
making in their language learning process. Based on this argument, Corder (
1967) rejected the theory that impediments in secondlanguage acquisition are
duemerely ...

Second Language Teaching

A View from the Right Side of the Brain

This volume offers a practical introduction to the use of neuroscience to teach second languages. It provides information on the relation between how the brain learns and how this can be used to construct classroom activities, evaluates methods, syllabi, approaches, etc. from the perspective of brain functioning. It illustrates how teaching can unfold with actual examples in several languages.

Epistemic Modality, Language, and Conceptualization: A Cognitive-Pragmatic
Perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Nuyts, J. and Pederson, E. (1997) (
eds.). Language and Conceptualization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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Linguistic Theory in Second Language Acquisition

Suzanne Flynn and Wayne O'Neil Massachusetts Institute of Technology I. INTRODUCTION The theory of Universal Grammar (UG) as explicated e. g. in Chomsky, 1986, has led to explosive developments in the study of natural language as well as to significant advances in the study of first language (L I) acquisition. Most recently. the theory of UG has led to important theore tical and empirical advances in the field of adult second language (L2) acquisition as well. The principle impetus for this development can be traced to the work in linguistics which shifted the study "from behavior or the products of behavior to states of the mind/brain that enter into behavior" (Chomksy. 1986:3). Grammars within this framework are conceived of as theoretical accounts of "the state of the mind/brain of the person who knows a particular language" (Chomsky. 1986:3). Research within fields of language acquisition seeks to isolate and specify the properties of the underlying competence necessary for language learning. Full development of a theory of UG demands study and understanding of the nature of both the formal properties of language and of the language acquisition process itself. However. while there is a tradition of debate and dialogue established between theoretical linguistics and Ll acquisition research. relatively few connections have been made between linguistic theory and L2 acquisition research.

Flynn, Mazurkewich, and White all suggest that the principles involved in first
language acquisition are indeed at work in second language learning. Clahsen,
on the other hand, argues that adults learners resort to other learning strategies
in ...

Molecular Neurobiology

De Camilli P. Harris S. M., Huttner W. B., and Greengard P. (1983b) Synapsin I (
Protein I), a nerve terminal-specific phosphoprotein: II. Its specific association
with synaptic vesicles demonstrated by immunocytochemistry in agarose-
embedded ...