The world is becoming more and more intricately multidimensional, both culturally and linguistically. Language is so deeply embedded in culture that cultural identity is defined to a great extent in terms of language. Based on this premise, the loss of one's language contributes to the loss of one's culture. This is the reason it is essential to maintain one's linguistic integrity in order to protect one's cultural identity. This new book captures the fundamental concepts and issues raised in this context.
This is the reason it is essential to maintain one's linguistic integrity in order to protect one's cultural identity. This new book captures the fundamental concepts and issues raised in this context.
The Clean Water Act (CWA) contains a number of complex and interrelated elements of overall water quality management. Foremost is the requirement in Section 303 that states establish ambient water quality standards for water bodies, consisting of the designated use or uses of a water body (e.g., recreational, public water supply, or industrial water supply) and the water quality criteria which are necessary to protect the use or uses. Standards are then used to determine which waters must be cleaned up, how much effluent may be discharged, and what is needed for protection. Through permitting, states or the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) impose wastewater discharge limits on individual industrial and municipal facilities to ensure that water quality standards are attained. However, Congress recognized in the act that, in many cases, pollution controls implemented by industry and cities would be insufficient to attain and maintain water quality standards, due to pollutant contributions from other unregulated sources. This book discusses the Clean Water Act and the pollutant total maximum daily loads, as well as the changes needed if the EPA program is to help fulfill the nation's water quality goals.
This book discusses the Clean Water Act and the pollutant total maximum daily loads, as well as the changes needed if the EPA program is to help fulfil the nation's water quality goals.
In this book, the authors present current research on the challenges, practices and cultural influences of parenting. Topics discussed in this compilation include young maternal age along with pre-term birth and the transition to motherhood; parents' perceptions of their child's mental health problems; Asian-American parenting; culture and parenting; parental influence on children's mate choice; gay and lesbian parenting; and parenting practices in a global world.
Cyber bullying is a growing concern for practitioners, policy makers, educators and parents as Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are becoming a pervasive part of young people's lives, especially in the developed world where such new technologies are more widespread. This is a concern for the psychological, educational and physical well-being of victims, bystanders and also the bullies. In response, most educational institutions, governments and numerous non-governmental organizations have initiated prevention and intervention efforts. At the core of these activities is the engagement of young people in digital and interactive experiences in a safe, supportive and enjoyable way and the protection from risks in these environments. This book examines the opportunities and challenges that arise when online environments are used for teaching and learning. Chapters include the notion of digital citizenships, the legal risks in electronic interactions, government and local educational institutions' policies, parental responsibilities, the willingness of bystanders to intervene in cyber bullying incidents, bullying interactions between real-world and online-world environments and the development of anti-bullying programs and approaches.
"Moving TESOL beyond the Comfort Zone: Exploring Criticality in TESOL" presents fourteen essays encompassing a wide range of topics of TESOL research and pedagogy from a multitude of perspectives: critical language pedagogy, critical academic literacy, language and technology, EIL/ELF, and multilingualism. The current volume attempts to address different perspectives that inform English language pedagogies situated in different socio-institutional domains. More crucially, it emphasizes how TESOL research and pedagogy interweave each other. The edited collection also showcases scholarly work and innovative pedagogy around the world and attempts to raise our awareness of what it means to work with multilingual students who are members of increasingly multilingual communities. Thus, the volume can definitely be a guide for teachers, teacher trainers/teacher educators, and researchers in the area of TESOL who are passionate about 'experimenting' with different theory and nuanced pedagogy
There is an urgent need to examine how the emergence of globalisation is influencing the ways the English language is perceived, learned, and taught across multiple disciplines as multilingual students and their multilingual identities ...
Innovation and Creativity in ELT Methodology comprises a collection of pedagogical articles, giving language teachers a fascinating insight into the way different teaching approaches, methods, procedures and techniques can be explored in the language classroom. Written by established and emerging scholars, this edited volume covers current key issues in teaching, including four macro language skills like listening, speaking, reading and writing; three micro language skills such as pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar, as well as English through content areas and technology -- CALL. This is a valuable resource book for language teachers, language materials developers, pre-service language teachers, and language teacher educators who would like to explore and creatively craft their own teaching practices to help language learners become competent users of the target language.
This title comprises a collection of pedagogical articles, giving language teachers a fascinating insight into the way different teaching approaches, methods, procedures and techniques can be explored in the language classroom.
