Teaching Languages off the Beaten Track

Contents: Mohammad Aliakbari/Nasrin Soltani: Learning Style Preferences of Iranian EFL Learners with Kurdish and Persian Cultures - Melanie Ellis: Compulsory L3 at Age 13: The Relation Between Personal History, Attitudes to Language Learning and Achievement - Mandira Halder: The Role of Cross-linguistic Awareness in Grammar Acquisition in a Multilingual Classroom - Josephine P. S. Yam: From Theory to Practice: Understanding Cantonese and Mandarin English Learners' Pronunciation Phenomena through Optimality Theory - Tomohito Hiromori: What are the Determining Factors of L2 Improvised Speech Performance? An Exploratory Study - Micha? B. Paradowski/Anna Wysoki?ska: What Motivates Polyglots - Anna Gonerko-Frej: Anglicizing Polishness. A Report from the ELT Frontin Post-communist Poland - Monica Lourenço/Ana Isabel Andrade: «Do Languages Die?» Promoting Awareness of Language and Linguistic Diversity in Preschool - Beatrice Cabau: Optimizing the Benefits of Overseas Academic Sojourns: Pre-Departure Training for Exchange Students - Debbie Ho/Alex Henry: A Text-Based Approach to Teaching Writing in the ESL Classroom - Krystyna U. Golkowska: Teaching Writing Across Borders - Sibo Chen: The Influence of Chinese Rhetoric on the Development of Communicative Competence in Learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language - Romuald Gozdawa-Go??biowski: The Primacy of Lexis. In Search of an Alternative to the Analytic /Holistic Dichotomy - Hesamoddin Shahriari: Using Gestures and Paralinguistic Features of Communication in Teaching EFL Speaking - Alessandro Zannirato: Teaching Linguistic and Intercultural Competence through an Emotions-based Curriculum - Tito Leati: Teaching Italian with the Aesthetic Image.