Book Review: 'Ecolinguistics: Language and ecology'

Book Review: Innovation and Change in English Language Education

  It is widely accepted that today’s technological world is moving in a much more speed than the past, which requires the skill of keeping up with the pace of change. This change and innovation is a must for all organizations. According to Shen (2008, p. 73), this change is trickier in the educational context, where "the nature of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of those i...

Book Review: "Literature and Language Learning in the EFL Classroom"

Literature and Language Learning in the EFL Classroomconsists of nineteenchapters. The chapters of the book have been arranged into two parts: Part I, current issues and suggestions for new approaches (Chapters 1-6) and Part II, empirical and case studies (Chapters 7-19). The book takes multiple approaches to examine how literary texts can be incorporated into teaching practices inan EFLclassro...

Book Review: "New Geographies of Language: Language Culture and Politics in Wales"

The book New Geographies of Language: Language, Culture and Politics in Wales is naturally seeking a very interesting goal rarely been witnessed before. For one thing, it is trying to mix language and linguistics with a totally distinct science, geography. For another, geography happens to be a literally exotic science. Students all around the world might be generally of two types: Those who lo...

BOOK REVIEW Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems: Ecology, Management, and Restoration

Applied ecosystem scientists tend to share several articles of faith: (1) that a clearer understanding of spatial and temporal patterns will better inform management decisions; (2) that patterns and relationships need to be examined at multiple scales; and (3) that effective study of ecosystems is fundamentally interdisciplinary. Occasionally a project such as the one described in this book aff...

Book Review: “Cognitive neuroscience of language”

Book Review Handbook for Language Engineers

The reader learns from this book's introduction (written by Ali Farghaly) that the objective of the book is to " equip linguists embarking on NLP assignments. " The introduction also explains why language engineers are needed and summarizes the contents of each chapter. " Domain Analysis and Representation " by Farghaly and Bruce Hedin offers a good discussion of the importance of domain analys...