Practical Approaches to Foreign Language Teaching and Learning

Contents: Eva Mendieta: Spanish Language Maintenance and Linguistic attitudes in the Latino Community of Northwest Indiana - Erin Kearney: Images as a Resource for Culture Learning in the Foreign Language Classroom - Heike Pintor/Birgit Strotmann/Claudia Kunschak: Project Management Inside and Outside the Classroom - Elaine Hewitt: Is Parental Influence an Effective Resource for Learning English as a Foreign Language? An Empirical Study with Complete-Beginner Children - Joanna Bielska: Gender Differences in Strategy Use and Classroom Task Preferences of Polish EFL Learners - Silvia Inés Pereira Rojas/Celia Guido Mendes: Influence of Dictionary Usage in the Results of a Test of Reading Comprehension of Technical and Scientific Texts in EFL - Carlos Periñán Pascual: WebQuests in a Stand-alone Course Management System - Maureen Klos: Beyond Autonomous Learning: Integrating e-Learning in Academia Language Support - Juan Bosco Camón Herrera: Software for L2 Writing Enhancement in Translation Curricula - Piedad Fernández Toledo: Allocation of Traditional, Human and Computer Resources to Meet the ELIS Subject Curriculum Demands - Marta Navarro Coy/Mª Luisa Villanueva Alfonso: Broadening the Concept of Reading Strategies: Towards a New Wreader - Mª Noelia Ruiz Madrid: Designing CALL Materials in the Foreign Language Field: The Case of TADLA in the EFL Classroom - Ignasi Navarro/Antonio J. Silvestre: The Role of ICMs in Cybergenre Representation and Reading Modes.

The Editor: Marta Navarro Coy holds a Ph.D. in English Philology from the University of Murcia. She is currently a lecturer in English for Specific Purposes at the Universidad Católica San Antonio in Murcia (Spain). Her research interests are mainly concerned with learner autonomy and self-access centres, as well as with the role of new technologies in the learning of English in general and of ESP in particular.