Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) has served as a cross-disciplinary framework
for understanding the adjustments individuals make to create, maintain, or decrease social …

In the past 20 years or so the phenomenon of globalization has had a profound effect on the
profusion of English in the world. Recent technological and demographic developments …

Presenting balanced coverage of skills and theory, Intercultural Competence provides
readers with the knowledgeable background and necessary skills to succeed in today's …

A cogent, freshly written synthesis of new and classic work on crosslinguistic influence, or
language transfer, this book is an authoritative account of transfer in second-language …

Written in a highly accessible style and in four parts, this book provides rapid and
authoritative access to current ideas and practice in intercultural communication. It draws on …

This is a vocabulary research manual. It aims to give you the background knowledge
necessary to design rigorous and effective research studies into the behavior of L1 and L2 …

Traditional grammar and current theoretical approaches towards modelling grammatical
knowledge ignore language in interaction: that is, words such as huh, eh, yup or yessssss …

The present case study examined factors that mediated interaction among 3 Asian learners
of English while they collaboratively wrote a summary using Google Docs and text-chat …

Nonverbal Communication in Everyday Life, Fourth Edition, is the most comprehensive,
thoroughly researched, and up-to-date introduction to the subject of nonverbal …

Socially valid practices are at the heart of applied behavior analysis and can influence how
interventions are experienced by families. However, the training of practitioners of applied …