Language teaching theory and methods

This volume addresses the implications that academic interdisciplinarity in the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has for research and pedagogy with a global reach.

Are you teaching or training to teach English to adult speakers of other languages?

At several junctures in his career, Dante paused to consider what it meant to be a writer.

This volume provides a review of L1 and L2 lexical research issues, as well as new research.

Offers research-based practical advice and examples regarding important aspects of feedback in language classrooms.

Approaching collocations from a usage-based perspective, this study investigates how the development of collocational proficiency in first and second language attainment could be explained.

Die unreflektierte Verwendung lexikalischer Einheiten in realen interkulturellen Kommunikationssituationen führt regelmäßig zu Irritationen des gegenseitigen Verstehens.

In a time when the increasing cultural diversity and population mobility of the continent calls for good communication skills, this fascinating book features a wealth of data and critical opinion on the topic of mother tongue education.

Social Media is fast becoming a key area of linguistic research.

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

Il manuale presenta un approccio all'apprendimento delle lingue straniere rivolto a princi-pianti adulti, basandosi in particolare sul pensiero complesso e sul socio-costruttivismo e attingendo da anni di esperienza con vari metodi non convenzionali.

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art account of research in language policy and planning (LPP).

This book is the first to explore the varied ways in which invented languages can be used to teach languages and linguistics in university courses.

Assessment in Second Language Pronunciation highlights the importance of pronunciation in the assessment of second language speaking proficiency.

In Zeiten gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche und besonderer Herausforderungen wird die Bedeutung von Schule und Bildung in besonderem Maße sichtbar.

American English Phonetic Transcription provides an accessible introduction to phonemic, phonetic, and intonational transcription with a focus on American English.

This book explores the contributions that cognitive linguistics and psychology, including neuropsychology, have made to the understanding of the way that second languages are processed and learnt.

Dramatic shifts in our communication landscape have made it crucial for language teaching to go beyond print literacy and encompass the digital literacies which are increasingly central to learners' personal, social, educational and professional lives.

Die Artikel prasentieren generelle Ansatze und spezielle Methoden fur die Ausbildung professioneller Ubersetzer und Dolmetscher der Ubersetzer- und Dolmetscherschule der Linguistischen Universitat Nizhny Novgorod (Russland).

Capital, Commodity, and English Language Teaching illustrates how the drive for profit in commercial ELT affects the manner in which language is taught.

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.

This book investigates the use of performative language pedagogy in working with refugees and migrants, exploring performative language teaching as the application of drama, music, dance and storytelling to second language acquisition.

From the perspective of empirical complex dynamic systems, this book investigates the complex and nonlinear process of L2 writing centering on three linguistic aspects of L2 writing development: vocabulary, syntax, and discourse.

Lehrkräfte stehen vor der großartigen Aufgabe, Schülerinnen und Schüler mit Deutsch als Erst- und Zweitsprache gemeinsam zu unterrichten und dabei das große Potential eines mehrsprachigen Klassenzimmers sprachdidaktisch auszuschöpfen.

This edited volume showcases how teacher educators around the world engage with critical and dialogic approaches to prepare TESOL professionals.

This is an updated version of ''the'' teacher training course for teachers and trainee teachers preparing for the Cambridge ESOL Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT) Modules 1, 2 and 3 or other initial teacher training qualifications.

Designed for instructors in schools and universities, as well as stakeholders and policy-makers in education everywhere, this book is a systematic guide to contemporary school teaching of classical languages, literature and civilisation in major countries across the world.

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Becoming and Being an Applied Linguist contains narrative accounts of the lives of thirteen well-established applied linguists.

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In an increasingly interconnected world, supporting students as they learn to communicate in linguistically diverse intercultural settings is a significant aim of English language and international education.