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  • CRITICAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING
    GERRARD MUGFORD
    This book develops the theory and practice of critical foreign language pedagogy. Written by a distinguished scholar of pragmatics and sociolinguistics, it encourages educators to think beyond traditional methods of language teaching to consider both the social reality of being a foreign language user and the personal goals and experiences of each learner. It emphasises the nee...

    $1,240.00

  • EXPLORING THE POWER OF SOCIAL TALK IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
    GERRARD MUGFORD
    This book examines the fundamental interactional dimension to foreign language communication, including the establishment, development, consolidation and maintenance of interpersonal relations. It argues that interpersonal language use such as small talk, casual conversation and gossipy talk is not only key to meaningful and productive communication but that it is an essential ...

    $1,200.00

  • TOWARDS A NEW PEDAGOGY FOR TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE POLITENESS
    GERRARD MUGFORD
    This book examines how foreign language speakers establish and maintain social and transactional relationships in their target language, and how pedagogic intervention can help learners implement practices that will allow them to participate and react in both socially acceptable and individualistically empowering ways. Arguing that ‘doing’ foreign-language politeness and cultur...

    $1,160.00

  • DEVELOPING CROSS-CULTURAL RELATIONAL ABILITY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING
    GERRARD MUGFORD
    By reconceptualizing successful communication in a foreign language as an enjoyable and uplifting experience, this volume moves beyond a focus on grammatical accuracy and fluency to foreground the ways in which foreign language learners can be encouraged to build on previous achievements and communicative successes in the target language and so develop confidence, commitment an...

    $1,100.00

  • ADDRESSING DIFFICULT SITUATIONS IN FOREIGN-LANGUAGE LEARNING
    GERRARD MUGFORD
    This book examines a neglected area of foreign-language teaching and learning: difficult and aggressive situations. The author presents the real-life experiences of language users and analyses how these individuals have dealt with confusion, impoliteness and hostility in target-language contexts in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom and within their home country. ...

    $1,160.00