Language teaching theory and methods

Patrice Larroque hypothesizes that early blues singers may have been influenced by the trochaic rhythm of English.

Language Learner Strategies combines principles with research and classroom practice, providing a new view of language learning to inform policy and teaching methodology.

"Die Nutzung des Werkes der Kinder für die Erziehung der Erwachsenen kann nicht im Kopieren desselben bestehen, sondern in der Gewinnung von Prinzipien, die untersucht werden müssen, um sie unterschiedlichen Bedingungen anzupassen" (Montessori "Erziehung für eine neue Welt – Weltanalphabetismus").

Extensive Reading is an innovative resource bridging theory and practice for those seeking to learn about extensive reading (ER) for L2 students' language development, including ways to motivate students to read extensively and to assess learning.

Doing Corpus Linguistics offers a practical step-by-step introduction to corpus linguistics, making use of widely available corpora and of a register analysis-based theoretical framework to provide students in applied linguistics and TESOL with the understanding and skills necessary to meaningfully analyze corpora and carry out successful corpus-based research.

This book argues that a dictionary should show when to use one word rather than another, instead of treating each word separately.

An authoritative overview of research into heritage language acquisition, covering key terminological and empirical issues, theoretical approaches, and research methodologies.

This volume provides an important contribution to the study of vocabulary and its relationship to English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research and teaching.

Drawing on data from interviews with domestic violence victims and police officers, Andrus analyses the narratives of their interactions.

A practical teacher guide book for teaching young children to read and write in English.

Appropriate for those new to the topic and established scholars, this holistic text examines the nexus of advocacy and English-language teaching, beginning with theories of advocacy, covering constraints and challenges in practice, and offering a range of hands-on perspectives in different contexts and with different populations.

Global Englishes and Change in English Language Teaching analyses the impact of current ELT practice, bringing together research from the fields of Global Englishes and ELT to provide suggestions for the implementation of a Global Englishes for Language Teaching curriculum.

Innovative and interdisciplinary in approach, this book explores the role of the mother tongue in second language learning.

Teachers in any subject area must have a basic understanding of how language is learned and used in educational contexts because language impacts teaching and learning across all subjects.

This book is the eighth volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English series, co-published with The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF).

Word lists lie at the heart of good vocabulary course design, the development of graded materials for extensive listening and extensive reading, research on vocabulary load, and vocabulary test development.

Technology-informed approaches to L2 research and teaching have prompted great interest by both researchers and practitioners alike.

The new edition of Ken Hyland's text provides an authoritative guide to writing theory, research, and teaching.

This best-selling comprehensive descriptive grammar forms a complete course, ideal for all students studying English Language, whether on a course or for self-study.

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

Do you find it hard to make friends?

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research into the application of digital games in second and foreign language teaching and learning.

Co-Teaching in Higher Education, edited by Daniel Jarvis and Mumbi Kariuki, brings together an international group of educators and scholars to examine the theoretical frameworks and practical experiences relating to co-planning, co-teaching, and co-assessing at the post-secondary level.

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

This accessible guide and introduction to critical applied linguistics provides a clear overview, highlighting problems, debates, and competing views in language education, literacy, discourse analysis, language in the workplace, translation and other language-related domains.

This book encourages readers to think about reading not only as an encounter with written language, but as a lifelong habit of engagement with ideas.

Languages and Literacies as Mobile and Placed Resources explores how languages and literacies are implicated in the complex relationship between place and mobility.

While digital technology is endlessly innovating and improving itself as a tool to support teaching and learning, the cognitive process of language learning itself remains perennially the same.

Speech acts are an important and integral part of day-to-day life in all languages.