English in Europe today
Subtitle: sociocultural and educational perspectives
By: edited by Annick De Houwer, Antje Wilton
Series: AILA applied linguistics series -- v. 8
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9789027205247; 9789027287342
Subjects: Study and teaching; English language; Languages in contact; Influence on foreign languages
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The dynamics of English in a multilingual Europe / Antje Wilton and Annick De Houwer; title: The increasing role of English in Basque education / Jasone Cenoz; title: English language testing: A case study of test development in Greece / Susan M. Gass and Daniel Reed; title: When comprehension is crucial : Using English as a medium of instruction at a German university / Annelie Knapp; title: English as a lingua franca and the Standard English misunderstanding / Kurt Kohn; title: The early acquisition of English as a second language : the case of young Chinese learners of English in Britain / Li Wei; title: The more languages, the more English? a Dutch perspective / Jacomine Nortier; title: Conceptualizing 'English' for a multilingual Europe / Barbara Seidlhofer; title: English as a foreign language : the role of out-of-school language input / Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Kees de Bot and Eva van Rein.