Background & Reference Material

Over the past four decades, learning Chinese as a second language has transformed from individual small-scale endeavors to organized mass studies w...

Viral Language considers a range of different types of public communication and their discussion of the Covid-19 pandemic as a way to investigate h...

This book proposes a relational turn in higher education by conceptualizing knowledge and pedagogy as relational and multimodal, analyzed through t...

This edited volume provides detailed analyses of multifunctional forms in English and offers hands-on approaches exemplifying relevant implications...

By foregrounding language practices in educational settings, this timely volume offers a postcolonial critique of the languaging of higher educatio...

This collection critically considers the question of how learning and teaching should be conceived, understood, and approached in light of the chan...

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a transformative and powerful approach to language education and has had a significant impact on...

Applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) concepts to help humans in their daily life, this book discusses an automatic translation of an unstruct...

From the perspective of empirical complex dynamic systems, this book investigates the complex and nonlinear process of L2 writing centering on thre...

This collection argues for the need to promote intercultural understanding as a clear goal for teaching and learning pragmatics in second and forei...

This volume brings together significant findings, approaches, and research-based pedagogies on teaching and learning source-based writing. A compre...

This is the first book devoted to the effects of orthographic forms (spellings) on second language phonology.Written by one of the pioneer research...

Practice is a recurring and popular theme in language education. However, the concepts of practice and automatization have recently received renewe...

Evaluating Language Assessments offers a comprehensive overview of the theoretical bases and research methodologies for the evaluation of language ...

In the last decade, the availability of corpora and the technological advancements of corpus tools have increased dramatically. Applied linguists h...

Reflecting the internationalization of the field of second language writing, this book focuses on political aspects and pedagogical issues of writi...

The Irish writer and critic Helen Waddell burst onto the publishing scene of the 1920s and 1930s as a phenomenon, a scholar whose books became inst...

This volume comprises a collection of essays by Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Belarussian, and American scholars in the fields of American Studies, l...

In this module on communication, the reader explores the nature and consequences of a particular definition of communication: the expression and in...

Drawing on the underrepresentation of the Global South in global knowledge production with a focus on the existing inequalities, the book highlight...

Use this six-part strategy for measurable, cross-curricular EL achievement! How can districts and schools successfully promote academic English ...

The Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) provides an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the main theorie...

To date, the majority of work in language learning psychology has focused on the learner. In contrast, relatively little attention has been paid to...

In this authoritative volume, Janet Enever explores the complex forces that shape national and local language education policy-making for the early...