Language teaching theory and methods

Practical Language Testing equips you with the skills, knowledge and principles necessary to understand and construct language tests.

This book serves as a comprehensive reference resource for current and prospective English language teachers, students of TESOL, academics, and other professionals working within the field of Teaching English as a Second or Other Language (TESOL).

Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities.

Drawing on the underrepresentation of the Global South in global knowledge production with a focus on the existing inequalities, the book highlights the importance of postcolonial narratives within Global Southern epistemologies in English language teaching (ELT) and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).

Corpus Perspectives on the Spoken Models used by EFL Teachers illustrates the key principles and practical guidelines for the design and exploitation of corpora for classroom-based research.

Guter Unterricht will gut geplant und gut vorbereitet sein, mit messbaren Erfolgen umgesetzt und systematisch optimiert werden können.

Aviation English investigates the key issues related to the use of English for the purpose of communication in aviation and analyses the current research on language training, testing and assessment in the area of Aviation English.

Local Language Testing: Design, Implementation, and Development describes the language testing practice that exists in the intermediate space between large-scale standardized testing and classroom assessment, an area that is rarely addressed in the language testing and assessment literature.

Highlighting marginalized but significant perspectives about the sociopolitical essence of English language tests and testing processes worldwide, this book explores the social considerations of testing theories and practices from a critical perspective.

This book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the experiences of faculty, students, and staff at a Canadian university that emphasizes international education, providing an ethnographic lens for understanding globalization and internationalization of higher education on a wider, global scale.

Mit der Einführung von verbindlichen Bildungsstandards fand eine stärkere Verschiebung zum kompetenzorientierten Unterricht statt.

This book provides an account of classroom observation in a historical and educational perspective.

A state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, presenting revision of an influential model alongside new empirical studies.

Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions is a state-of-the-art overview of advances in theories and practices relevant to the assessment of academic English skills for higher education admissions purposes.

Highlighting marginalized but significant perspectives about the sociopolitical essence of English language tests and testing processes worldwide, this book explores the social considerations of testing theories and practices from a critical perspective.

Shortlisted for the UK Literacy Association's Academic Book Award 2021There is an increasing trend in teachers using graphic novels to get their students excited about reading and writing, using both original stories and adaptations of classic works by authors such as Homer, Shakespeare, and the Brontes.

The first of its kind, this collection provides analysis and discussion of corrective feedback in second language learning and teaching.

This textbook provides an innovative introduction to core areas of grammar: a systematic guide to the structure of English, arranged hierarchically from the word to the sentence to the paragraph level.

The study of teacher cognition - what teachers think, know and believe - and of its relationship to teachers' classroom practices has become a key theme in the field of language teaching and teacher education.

Combines qualitative and quantitative approaches to second language program evaluation.

This Element explores new intercultural and transcultural approaches to understanding language, communication and culture and the implications for language teaching.

In recent years, corpora have found their way into language instruction, albeit often indirectly, through their role in syllabus and course design and in the production of teaching materials and other resources.

Dieser Ratgeber stellt den Lesern in übersichtlicher und leicht verständlicher Form ein umfassendes Repertoire an Lernstrategien für alle Formen des Fremdsprachenlernens zur Verfügung.

This book concentrates on teachers'' knowledge and understanding of language systems in the belief that these systems are at the heart of the language acquisition process.

Drawing on experiences of ESOL teachers from around the world, this book provides insights into how peer learning is understood and used in real language classrooms.

Das Interesse an Formen der Bewertung im modernen, kompetenzorientierten Fremdsprachenunterricht (FSU) ist in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich gestiegen; dies gilt sowohl für standardisierte Abiturprüfungen (Qualifikationsprüfungen) als auch für Sprachstandsüberprüfungen (Klausur- und Schularbeiten) im Klassenzimmer.