Language teaching theory & Methods

This book argues controversially that second-language acquisition has much in common with other forms of skill learning, and that there is much to ...

The continual rise of English as a global lingua franca has meant that English literature, both as a discipline and as a tool in ESL and EFL classr...

The Role of English Teaching in Modern Japan examines the complex nature of Japan’s promotion of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). In globalized...

This book locates dialogic pedagogy within the history of TESOL approaches and methods in which the communicative approach has been the dominant pa...

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Language Education provides the rapidly growing and globalizing field of heritage language (HL) education with a...

English and Its Teachers offers a historical overview of the development of secondary English teaching in schools over the past 50 years. Initially...

'… A well-organized volume with a strong emphasis on pedagogy.' – Trudy Smoke, Hunter College/City University of New York, USA'Generation 1.5 is th...

Reading for pleasure urgently requires a higher profile to raise attainment and increase children’s engagement as self-motivated and socially inter...

This easy-to-use handbook will help teachers whose classrooms include students whose first language is not English. The focus is on books written f...

'… A well-organized volume with a strong emphasis on pedagogy.' – Trudy Smoke, Hunter College/City University of New York, USA'Generation 1.5 is th...

Thinking in English represents Dr. Muciaccia’s unique method of teaching English to non-native English speakers. Unlike any other English as a Seco...

A Communicative Grammar of English has long been established as a grammar innovative in approach, reliable in coverage, and clear in its explanatio...

This volume offers an updated analysis of the methodology of reading and reading research since 1995, when the landmark book Verbal Protocols of Re...

Thinking in English represents Dr. Muciaccia’s unique method of teaching English to non-native English speakers. Unlike any other English as a Seco...

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

Effective Curriculum for Teaching L2 Writing sets out a clear big picture for curricular thinking about L2 writing pedagogy and offers a step-by-st...

This book starts from three observations. First, the use of humour is a complex, puzzling, and idiosyncratically human form of behaviour (and hence...

This landmark volume provides a broad-based, comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research into second language teachi...

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

Interdisciplinary Research Discourse: Corpus Investigations into Environment Journals provides cutting-edge insights into the nature of communicati...

Volume III of the Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning, like Volumes I and II, is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overvi...

Hilary Janks addresses key questions about literacy and power in this landmark text that is both engaging and accessible.Her central argument is th...