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Addresses an important issue in Second Language Acquisition - how to help learners progress from Intermediate and Advanced proficiency to Superior and beyond. This volume includes research on working memory and cognition and empirical studies of effective teaching. It can serve as a practical handbook for seasoned and pre-professional instructors.

US - China conflict is far from inevitable, major tensions are build in the Asia-Pacific region. Despite worrying signs of intensifying rivalry between Washington and Beijing, few observers have provided concrete paradigms to lead this troubled relationship away from disaster. This book is about US-China relations.

Explore the layers of African multilingualism as they affect language policy and education. This book includes case studies ranging across the continent, the contributors consider multilingualism in the classroom as well as in domains ranging from music and film to politics. It also reveals how poor teacher training leads to failures in education.

Analyzing the strategic underpinnings of hegemony, this book offers insights into the links between military and commercial power as it charts the rise of a historical rarity: the incidental superpower. It is suitable for students and general readers as well as scholars.

Presents an array of texts that sample Quebecois literature, popular culture, art, music, and politics. This book also includes texts with pre-reading and post-reading activities, cultural notes, and historical overview sections. It helps students to improve their French language skills while learning about Quebec.

Showcases the powerful role of religion in shaping European attitudes on politics, political integration, and the national and continental identities of its leaders and citizens. In this book the authors show, this deep cultural divide, rooted in the struggles of the reformation, resists the ongoing secularization of the continent.

Explores in-depth the findings of research in second language acquisition (SLA) and other language-related fields and translates those findings into practical pedagogical tools for current - and future - Spanish-language instructors.

NATO has to articulate a strategic vision designed to determine how, when, and where its capabilities should be used, the values underpinning its missions, and its relationship to other international actors such as the European Union and the United Nations. This work examines the key issues that NATO must address in formulating a strategic vision.

Medical ethics draws upon methods from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, epidemiology, health services research, history, law, medicine, and theology. In this book, scholars in medical ethics bring these many methods together in one place to be systematically described, critiqued, and challenged.

A comprehensive study of significant issues affecting health care and the ethics of health care from the perspective of Catholic theology. It helps Christian, and especially Catholic, health care professionals solve concrete problems in terms of principles rooted in scripture and tested by individual experience.

What horrors will the twenty-first century bring? This title presents an examination of international politics that reveals both theoretical logic and empirical data that support the vision of a future where wars between great powers are unlikely and transnational threats can be contained.

What will become of our earthly remains? What happens to our bodies during and after the various forms of cadaver disposal available? Who controls the fate of human remains? What legal and moral constraints apply? The author provides a graphic, informative, and entertaining exploration of these questions.

A number of nations, conspicuously Israel and the United States, have been increasingly attracted to the use of strategic barriers to promote national defense. This book examines the historical use of strategic defences such as walls or fortifications to evaluate their effectiveness and consider their implications for modern security.

Counterintelligence is the art and practice of defeating these endeavors. The tools of counterintelligence include security systems, deception, and disguise: vaults, mirrors, and masks. This title explains the importance of counterintelligence and explores the causes of - and practical solutions for - US counterintelligence weaknesses.

Depicts the ambivalent character of Catholics' mainstream "arrival" in the US over the years, integrating social scientific, historical and moral accounts of persistent tensions between faith and power. This book describes the implications of Catholic universalism for voting patterns, international policymaking, and partisan alliances.

Examines India's rise to power and the obstacles it faces in the context of domestic governance and security, relationships and security issues with its South Asian neighbors, and international relations in the wider Asian region.

Dari is the most used language in Afghanistan. This book is designed to cover one year of instruction, offers beginning learners a communicative approach to the Dari language that emphasizes task-oriented, communicative activities for developing the four language skills - speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

A common critique of globalization is that it causes economic segmentation and even disintegration of the national economy. While globalization has its benefits, such as higher economic growth, and costs, such as external shocks, the author's findings show that India has benefited from globalization more than it has been victimized by it.

Brings together the rhetorical traditions and the best practices of ESL instruction to facilitate superior-level proficiency in the English language.

Presents a range of viewpoints about whether and how the US should alter its diplomatic and military strategies for this region. This book concludes with a comparative assessment of these options and a discussion of their implications for US policymakers.

Argues that as escalating costs absorb a greater percentage of family income and government budgets, it is through the implementation of religious values that Americans can create a more community-based system.

Conceived to be a practical reference grammar for those who may have basic skills in Moroccan Arabic, this title teaches the phonology, morphology, and syntax of the dialect.

Examines specific teachings of the Church on over seventy issues in clinical and research ethics, including abortion, AIDS, artificial insemination, assisted suicide, cloning, contraception, euthanasia, gene therapy, health care reform, organ donation and transplantation, organizational ethics, stem cells, and, surrogate motherhood.

Much feminist scholarship has viewed Catholicism and Shi'i Islam as two religious traditions that, historically, have greeted feminist claims with skepticism or outright hostility. This book demonstrates how certain liberal secular assumptions about these religious traditions are only partly correct and, more importantly, misleading.

Retrieving insights from a variety of approaches, the author defends an account of human rights that straddles the minimalist-maximalist divide, one that links human rights to a conception of our common humanity and to the notion that ethical realism gives the most satisfying account of our commitment to the equal moral worth of all human beings.

A comprehensive introduction to the internal and external history of the Spanish language from its Indo-European ancestry to the present-day language of over 400 million people. It examines the phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and lexical changes that characterize the evolution of Spanish from its Latin origins.

Explores three central questions: What does it mean to be human? What is the significance of the diversity that is evident among human beings? And what are the challenges that humans face living within the natural world? In this title, a distinguished group of scholars focuses on the theological responses to each of these questions.

Neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, and psycholinguists have investigated the implicit and explicit continuum in language development and use from theoretical, empirical, and methodological perspectives. This title addresses these perspectives in an effort to build connections among them and to draw pedagogical implications when possible.

How is moral theology related to pastoral theology? This title answers this question by offering a theory of action. It demonstrates that the demand for truthfulness offers a critical corrective to the usual praxis whereby ethical norms are formulated.

Childhood faces humanity with its own deepest and most perplexing questions. This title reimagines ethical thought and practice in light of the experiences of the third of humanity who are children. It argues that a different childism is required that transforms moral thinking, relations, and societies in fundamental ways.