Bøker av Cynthia Lee

This edited collection addresses the link between second language pragmatics (including interlanguage and intercultural) research and English language education. The chapters use different contemporary research methods and theoretical frameworks such as conversation analysis, language-learners-as-ethnographers, discourse and interactional approaches and data in contexts (either in the region or overseas).The content explores and discusses the significance of learning and teaching of second language (L2) pragmatics in language education for learners who use English as a lingua franca for academic and intercultural communication purposes with native and non-native speakers of English, focusing on pragmatic actions, social behaviours, perceptions and awareness levels in three regions in East Asia - China, Japan and South Korea. It is an important contribution to the area of second language pragmatics in language education for East Asian learners. It recommends research-informed pedagogies for the learning and teaching of interlanguage or intercultural pragmatics in regions and places where similar cultural beliefs or practices are found.This is an essential read for researchers, language educators, classroom teachers, readers who are interested in second language pragmatics research and those interested in second language acquisition and English language education in the East Asian context.

It's said to write well, write what you know. Never would I have believed myself to be so bold if someone had told me I would be writing these words as I once experienced them. I've learned a lot in my life. But the one constant has always been love whether I've chased after it or learned to embrace it for myself. Sometimes it meant just learning to love myself so that others could love me and cherish me in the same way that I did them. During my darkest times I never fully grasped that I was Love. It is the very essence of my being. Something far more profound than anything I have ever looked for outside of myself. So this is my journey. My story in poetry and prose. Why I am the way that I am; filling these pages in one book of many. These feelings and passions I share with you are the hopes of something greater than what this heart and soul have experienced to date. And maybe in a way, this will give others hope or a purpose for their life that they may have missed. It's hard being open and vulnerable in a world full of judgment and fake. Yet here I am. The writings of this flesh; the expression of heart and soul. One of Life, Love, Great & Unfortunate Things.

Provides the reader with both critical race and critical feminist theory perspectives on criminal law while following a traditional format. All of the usual subject areas are covered, but the book is unique in highlighting the cultural context of substantive criminal law.

It is written for researchers, language educators, classroom teachers and readers who are interested in interlanguage pragmatics research, acquisition and teaching, with particular reference to speech acts performed by Chinese learners of English, and their relationships with the learners' first language and cultural concepts.

This innovative book examines the relationship between foreign (L2) language acquisition and task-based learning from an output perspective, with a concentration on the learner's discourse and retrospection. Author Cynthia Lee explores this issue in an experimental context; with particular reference to Hong Kong Chinese tertiary learners of English. Lee's study contributes to research on L2 acquisition and casts light on task-based learning and pedagogy in Hong Kong classrooms and beyond. English language teaching practitioners, researchers, and applied linguists will find special value in this book.

Shows how two well-established, traditional criminal law defenses - the doctrines of provocation and self-defense - enable certain defendants to more easily justify their acts of violence than others. This work suggests three tentative legal reforms to address problems of bias and undue leniency.