Background & Reference Material

You enjoy teaching and, like every other teacher, you want the best for every learner. Recently, you have found a steady stream of learners coming ...

This edited book is about the rationale, practice and classroom implementation of English-medium instruction courses in Chinese universities. It sp...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication consists of forty chapters that provide a broad, comprehensive, and systematic overview...

This book explores the relationship between language education and citizenship through theoretical and pedagogical lenses, examining existing langu...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of TED talks as a digital-multimodal video genre, exploring the ways in which myriad rhetorical, structur...

This edited collection provides a comprehensive and locally situated understanding of English language teaching from the perspective of dedicated a...

This collection brings together perspectives from emerging and established scholars, working from empirical data from real-life classroom experienc...

This book explores how young childrens language development is intricately connected to the context in which it takes place. The term context not o...

This book presents a history of English and development of language education in modern India. It explores the role of language in colonial attempt...

This book comprehensively introduces Cognitive Linguistics and applies its tools to religious language. Drawing on authentic samples from a range o...

Maintaining English as the sole language of knowledge production and dissemination in universities that enrol students who speak multiple languages...

This engaging volume on English as an Additional Language (EAL), argues persuasively for the importance of critical participatory pedagogies that e...

New Directions for Research in Foreign Language Education brings together contributions by reputed scholars that examine the challenges, opportunit...

Emerging from a critical analysis of the glocal power of English and how it relates to academic literacy and culturally responsive pedagogy, this b...

Second Language Teacher Prosody focuses on the prosodic characteristics of input in L2 Spanish classrooms. Readers are led through descriptions and...

This collection of original research highlights the legacy of Michael Toolans pioneering contributions to the field of stylistics and in so doing p...

This volume provides a new perspective on prevailing discourses on translanguaging and multilingualism by looking at glocal languages, local langua...

This book proposes a broad-based multiliteracies theory and praxis for college writing curriculum. Khadka expands on the work of the New London Gro...

Interpreting and the Politics of Recognition investigates the historical, ethical and professional dimensions of this, arguably, most widespread fo...

Linguistics and Law offers a clear and concise introduction to making sense of the law through linguistics. Drawing on lexical semantics, syntax, a...

This text illustrates the crucial role of the mother tongue literacy in second language acquisition by presenting findings from a comparative study...

Communicating Identities is a book for language teachers who wish to focus on the topic of identity in the context of their classroom teaching. The...

This book is an essential resource for those new to, developing and established in the field of trans voice. Presented in a workbook style and pack...

This volume offers a critical insight into the life and work of the controversial Victorian explorer and translator Richard Francis Burton (1821-18...

In this book, leading scholars in the field of World Englishes (WE) offer fresh perspectives in re-thinking issues on the use of English as a globa...

This book presents a new set of ideas to challenge established thinking and to guide researching and designing teacher professional development. Gr...

Wus book provides an innovative perspective on, and recommendations for, the major aspects of second language (L2) teaching from a Hegelian anthro-...

This volume examines the uses of technologies in language test design and validation. Following Cyril Weir's socio-cognitive framework, it reports ...

Corpus Linguistics for Writing Development provides a practical introduction to using corpora in the study of first and second language learners wr...

Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies guides the reader through the process of sourcing a relevant oral history archive for linguis...

Researching Creativity in Second Language Acquisition explains the links between creativity and second language learning and how to propel the rese...

Doing a Masters Dissertation in TESOL and Applied Linguistics is a practical guide for masters students tackling research and research writing for ...

This accessible book introduces a new theory of Critical Disciplinary Literacy that merges criticality and disciplinary literacy approaches in a co...

This accessible book introduces a new theory of Critical Disciplinary Literacy that merges criticality and disciplinary literacy approaches in a co...

This timely and critical look at the teaching of English shows how language is used to create hierarchies of cultural privilege in public schools a...

The Oxford Illustrated Social Studies Dictionary explains academic vocabulary at a level appropriate for high-beginning and intermediate students, ...

Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World is a practical guide for all teachers to help their students with pronunciation. The activities t...

In this indispensable work, prominent authorities review the latest research on all aspects of ELL instruction (K12) and identify what works for to...