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Language Education Today: Between Theory and Practice
Editor: Georgeta Raţă
Date Of Publication: Jan 2010
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-1641-0
Isbn: 1-4438-1641-8
Language Education Today: Between Theory and Practice is a collection of essays that appeal to teachers of modern languages (almost exclusively English) regardless of the level of instruction. The essays deal with three main aspects of the opposition Linguistic Identity vs. Multilingualism: language education (mother tongue – Turkish, Kurdish, and Serbian; contact linguistics – the impact of Slavic and of German on modern Romanian; the opposition L1 vs. L2 – Arabic, Farsi, Urdu and Serbian vs. English; and contrastive studies – German and Macedonian); English language teaching and learning (English as a Foreign or Second Language taught to Serbian and Ruthenian students; English for Specific Purposes – Business English, Information Technology English, the English of hotel terminology, and the English of business media taught to Romanian students; English language teaching and assessing methods to Thai, Italian, Malaysian, and Croatian students; and the profile of the language teacher in the universities of the F.Y.R. of Macedonia and of Romania); and linguistic issues (with focus on some English word histories and on some English modal verbs, on French spelling and on some French verbs of animal communication, and on the Latin Plesiosauria Nomenclature).

Georgeta RAŢĂ holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University in Bucharest (Romania). She is a qualified EFL teacher and has been teaching languages for almost 33 years. Her extensive experience includes both general English and several areas of ESP, and she has published widely in these areas. She also has cross-linguistic expertise, having worked in French and Romanian as well as English, and understands the practical issues involved in teaching and learning different languages and transferring research ideas from one language to another. She is the Scientific Secretary of her Department, Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Linguistic Studies, a contributor to the English Profile research project, and regularly organises international events in the field of language education.

“Targeting teachers of foreign languages and educationalists in general, this collection of articles covers a wide range of topics dealing with descriptive, contrastive, semantic or etymological aspects of languages and language teaching, underscoring the numerous benefits of bi- or multilingual education. One of the great merits of this collection is the impressive cultural diversity of contributors whose opinions converge nevertheless with regard to language education fostering intercultural competence and furthering communication and cooperation across racial, ethnic and cultural divides.”

- Reghina Dascăl, Assistant Professor, West University, Timişoara

“This volume covers an exhilarating range of problems and topics related to contemporary linguistics and language teaching methodology across cultures. Each of the contributors, the bulk of whom live and work in Romania and South-Eastern Europe, shares in English or French his or her own way of dealing with a particular challenge in language education. While adding to the appealing cultural diversity of the book, their innovative perspectives and valuable practical approaches confirm the perennial mission of language teachers and educators to continue developing a deeper sensitivity to the cultural uniqueness of each language on our planet alongside an awareness to, and acceptance of, global change.”

—Roumyana Petrova, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Rousse (Bulgaria) and Fulbright adviser, scientific reviewer of Journal of Linguistic Studies.

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