In an era of globalization, issues of language diversity have economic and political implications. Transnational labor … competitiveness all have a linguistic dimension; yet economists in general do not include language as a variable in their research …. This volume demonstrates that the application of rigorous economic theories and research methods to issues of language …

approaches to promote students' language and communicative skills. This handbook contributes over 50 authoritative research … Virtual Learning Environments / Mar Gutiérrez-Colon Plana -- Social Software and Language Acquisition / Sarah Guth, Corrado … Petrucco -- The Usefulness of Second Life for Language Learning / Bryan Carter, Dayton Elseth -- Project-Based Instruction for …

Challenges in Virtual Workspaces / B. Olaniran -- The language of leaders / S. Simoff, F. Sudweeks -- Researching Online …