Language as a Local Practice addresses the questions of language, locality and practice as a way of moving forward in our understanding of how language operates

This volume inserts the place of the local in theorizing about language policies and practices in applied linguistics. It is unique in focusing specifically on

Drawing on sociocultural theories of learning, this book examines how the everyday language practices and cultural funds of knowledge of youth from non-dominant

Local Language Testing: Design, Implementation, and Development describes the language testing practice that exists in the intermediate space between large-scal

With world-wide environmental destruction and globalization of economy, a few languages, especially English, are spreading, while thousands others are disappear