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This comprehensive introduction to literature learning in EFL contexts pays attention to both theoretical and practical concerns. It focuses on a wide range of literary genres, different age and ability groups, and gives suggestions for the future of the field. Its readership comprises language teachers, university students and academics.

The book discusses the "battle" taking place in writers' heads when writing in a foreign language. It looks at written texts and the writing process in terms of fluency, errors and revision processes, comparing L1 and FL writing. The findings allow an insight into the processes going on in the brain and call for new didactic approaches to FL writing.

While searching for a proven structure the author discovered the Rule of St Benedict, whose basic ethos he transferred to efficient sales processes. The central chapter of the book offers a sales organisation which can be easily adapted for sales in all sectors.

This sports economics volume contains articles on UEFA's financial fair play regulation in European football. Further chapters deal with other football topics like the coach-dismissals or competitive balance. Furthermore, the economics of sports events (Olympics, local events) and individual sports (cycling, ski-jumping, motor-racing) are explored.

This volume of essays examines the relationship between eating and crisis, both literal and metaphorical, in American literature, film, television series, the visual arts, various manifestations of popular culture, lifestyles, history and ecology. Among the issues discussed are the ethics and aesthetics of food, and sustenance in times of crisis.

By contrasting Poland and Hungary, this volume assesses the impact of rightwing political traditions, religion and Communist rule, of historical consciousness and social stratification on contemporary antisemitic prejudice. Both leading and emerging scholars also debate similarities with and connections to anti-Roma agitation.

This volume explores the notions of excess, intemperance and overabundance in cultures and literatures of both the English- and Chinese-speaking worlds. It concentrates on some aspects of literary and cultural meanings of excess(es) in various theories and practices of these antipodean territories of human experience and consciousnesses.

The book adds new studies of memories and interactions between Jews and non-Jews to the historical and cultural research on this topic. It gathers in one volume the results of work by scholars from several countries, while the topics of the articles cover various disciplines: history, sociology, psychology, literary and language studies.

The limitless availability of information necessitates education to stand out as the key factor for human and national development. As an advocate of the social values of freedom, dignity and charity the church stated clearly that education belongs to the inalienable human rights. This study critically analyses the Nigerian educational system.

This study analyses syntactic dislocation in congregational song between 1500 and 1900. Two distinct dislocation patterns, which combine poetic factors and syntactic criteria, allow for a comparison to other genres. Indeed, syntactic dislocation makes congregational song a conservative genre both compared to religious prose and to secular poetry.

This book examines prefixes expressing aspectuality in early English, such as ge- in the Old English verb gegladian "cheer up" or a- in the verb astreccan "stretch out", providing an analysis of the three most frequent prefixes (ge-, a- and for-). These prefixes show many inflectional properties, as well as typical features of grammaticalization.

The study provides data on translators' specific self-directed learning strategies. Additional data covers three areas: specialisation and the market, qualifications and competence as well as affects and attitudes. Textual operations, which traditionally have been investigated in Translation Studies, are not examined.

This book analyzes the value-creating potential which stems from voluntary synergy disclosures during M&A, and their post-merger realization in the US and EU energy markets. Initially, a practitioner's perspective is assessed, followed by the capital market's valuation. Lastly, the actual synergy realization is analyzed in an accounting context.

The volume provides an insight into writing research methods, process data analysis, conceptual considerations of writing process research, mixed methods designs, interdisciplinary research influences, the application of research methods in educational settings through peer feedback, counseling, web based learning and into competence measurement.

This work focuses on analysing linguistic mechanisms (structural, semantic, rhetorical) used in the formation of historical synonyms of prostitute in English. It also accounts for historical and cultural variations in the approach to sex relations. The analysis comprises synonyms dating from Old English up to Early Modern English.

Fashionable Queens comprises a variety of essays dealing with the relationship of women and fashion. It offers a new way of thinking of publically significant women, who exert, and also subvert, their power through their attire and thereby negotiate notions of body, power, and gender.

The examination-oriented style of teaching and the general paucity of valuable content in EFL course books at senior secondary schools lead to undesirable educational outcomes. They can be avoided by integrating valuable films, literature, songs and other texts of culture into the system of preparation for the school leaving examination in English.

This volume contains the revised texts of papers given at the Nordic Prosody XI conference, held at the University of Tartu, Estonia, in August 2012. The 42 contributions focus on the analysis of various prosodic aspects of the Scandinavian, Finno-Ugric and other languages spoken around and beyond the Baltic Sea area.

Is Kenyan English a new postcolonial variety of English developing in a multilingual environment of permanent language contact? Analysis of lexical, morphological and syntactic features in the International Corpus of English for East Africa (ICE-EA) is accompanied by a sociolinguistic perspective and summarized employing Schneider's Dynamic Model.

The book presents the results of multi-parameter corpus research on Polish and English linguistic discourses. The results show the changes which English and Polish linguistic discourses underwent between 1980 and 2010, and the extent to which English as lingua franca of modern science affects Polish L1 and English L2 linguistic discourses.

This volume contains a collection of papers by an international team of scholars covering the subject of literary character in Roman poetry. Authors discussed are Horace, Vergil, Propertius, Ovid, Lucan and an epigrammatist of the 6th centrury A.D., Maximianus Etruscus, and problems treated vary from theoretical through poetical to historical questions.

This study approaches Margery Kempe's roles in her earthly, heavenly and spiritual families. It details the tension between her domestic and spiritual life and the agony and pleasure imposed on her by the divine. Close extensive research is devoted to late medieval female mysticism and the complex authorship and genre of The Book of Margery Kempe.

The volume contains papers focused on speech actions. The contributors analyse actional language integrating varied methodologies of cognitive linguistics and pragmatics. The papers are grouped into four sections which subsequently emphasise theoretical linguistics issues, lexical pragmatics, speech act-theoretic problems, and cognitive processes.

The book provides a panorama of Italian migrants' activities in Polish economy, political life and culture. The motivations of Italians to travel to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and often settled there permanently, the reasons which made this migration possible as well as the difficulties in their adaptation are described.

The study deals with human community and its relation with the individual. It takes recourse to the notions of friendship, moral respect and solidarity which allow for the extension of the notion of community above the limitations of the human sphere and takes up Thoreau's work as early and prophetic diagnosis of the modern crisis of relationships.

The book focuses on the category of character in fiction. It analyses characters in individual texts by authors ranging from Conrad to Coetzee considered from rhetorical, structural, functional and cognitive perspectives; in genre contexts from utopia and fantasy to campus fiction; and in extra-textual contexts from intertextuality to autobiography.

What do we remember from our national past and why? What are the dangers of history being (mis-)appropriated by politicians? The Past in the Present provides a critical analysis of recent disputes over Polish historiography. The author uses theories of Collective Memory as a guideline, and the Polish-German borderlands as his leitmotif.

Strangers by Choice explores voluntary otherness as a philosophy of life. This philosophy is asocial in the sense that its followers tend to privilege separateness over belonging, and yet it does not lead to alienation or isolation from society. Andrzej Waskiewicz sheds light on the experience of spiritual idealists.

Insufficient supply of oxygen, i.e. hypoxia, typically occurs in a broad range of solid tumours due to aberrant vasculature. This book summarizes the current state of knowledge on hypoxia-regulated pathways and their biological consequences and describes promising approaches to clinical application of this knowledge.

The European Union has conceived itself as multilingual since its beginning in 1956. In this volume, several general reflections on the main topic are followed by a critical discussion of language instruction in the United Kingdom and reports on foreign language education in various other countries.