Back to the Future English from Past to Present
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Maria Luisa Maggioni teaches and conducts research on the history of the English language, teaching English as a foreign language in higher education and teacher training.
Amanda C. Murphy teaches and conducts research on spoken and written specialized language, varieties of English, English as a medium of instruction, and the internationalization of higher education.
An awareness of diachronic development at all levels of language can enhance the learning and teaching of language and translation. This book illustrates this approach, adopting a variety of research methodologies. A diachronic perspective is applied to the pedagogy of English spelling, translation studies, bilingual education, approaches to teaching culture in CLIL, the development of a new multimodal genre, the lyrics video, aspects of modality in legal English, and the meaning shifts through time of the American lexeme dude.
This book illustrates the advantage of a diachronic perspective to learning and teaching language and translation. This perspective is applied to English spelling pedagogy, translation studies, bilingual education, approaches to teaching culture, new genre development, aspects of legal English, and meaning shifts in American lexis.
Diachronic perspective – Teaching English spelling – Learning and teaching English – Translation studies – Bilingual education – Teaching culture in CLIL – Modality in legal English – Multimodal genres – Dude
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Biographical note
Maria Luisa Maggioni teaches and conducts research on the history of the English language, teaching English as a foreign language in higher education and teacher training.
Amanda C. Murphy teaches and conducts research on spoken and written specialized language, varieties of English, English as a medium of instruction, and the internationalization of higher education.