Product Description: The Pulse of a Malaysian University discloses the research agendas of language scholars at a Southeast-Asian university, allowing western readers to gain deeper knowledge of an Asian perspective on language issues. In Part A, five authors address diverse ethnolinguistic/sociolinguistic issues such as the Minangkabau Pasambahan, media response to terrorism, negotiation discourse, bilingualism, and status of foreign languages...read more

Product Description: This volume on codeswitching contains analyses by several international scholars dealing with language mixtures in 11 different settings. The authors address a number of issues such as: codeswitching as an index of language shift; language alteration; models of descriptions; and units of analysis...read more

Product Description: The present volume is a unique collection of writings by international scholars revealing their individual approaches to the conceptualization of the intriguing phenomenon of the switching of codes when some speakers interact with one another...read more

Product Description: The chapters presented in this book examine a number of issues surrounding the distribution of languages used in bilingual teaching. They cover bilingual classrooms, classroom interaction and technological advances in teaching. Two major case studies are also included...read more