Language teaching theory & Methods

Asking students to write journals that reflect on their learning has become a widespread pedagogical practice in recent years. However, the scholar...

Asking students to write journals that reflect on their learning has become a widespread pedagogical practice in recent years. However, the scholar...

This book is the first and only comprehensive guide for administrators building ESL programs. The guide provides insight into the development, admi...

This reader provides both theoretical perspectives and practical tools for analysing and understanding how ELT classroom curricula can be analysed,...

Devised in collaboration with the Open University and Macquarie University, Australia, Analysing English in a Global Context is specifically design...

This book proposes a path-breaking study of the economics of multilingualism at work, proposing a systematic approach to the identification and mea...

This reader provides both theoretical perspectives and practical tools for analysing and understanding how ELT classroom curricula can be analysed,...

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduc...

English Language Teaching in its Social Context offers sociolinguistic, ethnographic, and social-psychological perspectives on TESOL teaching and l...

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduc...

Multiliteracies considers the future of literacy teaching in the context of the rapidly changing English language. Questions are raised about what ...

Devised in collaboration with the Open University and Macquarie University, Australia, Analysing English in a Global Context is specifically design...

Multiliteracies considers the future of literacy teaching in the context of the rapidly changing English language. Questions are raised about what ...

English Language Teaching in its Social Context offers sociolinguistic, ethnographic, and social-psychological perspectives on TESOL teaching and l...

Illustrated by an empirical study of English as a Foreign Language reading in Argentina, this book argues for a different approach to the theoretic...

This book investigates the theoretical, empirical and pedagogical issues to help us better understand what is happening with English as a Lingua Fr...

This book provides an overview of language education in Malaysia, covering topics such as the evolution of the education system from pre-independen...

Talking About Language Assessment is the first book to take an interview-based approach to the history of language assessment. This collection cons...

Featuring an extensive set of entries covering all aspects of research methodology, ranging from basic to more advanced topics, this is an essentia...

Literacy and Education tells the story of how literacy—starting in the early 1980s—came to be seen not as a mental phenomenon, but as a social and ...

Stimulated Recall Methodology in Applied Linguistics and L2 Research provides researchers and students in second language acquisition and applied l...

This volume seeks to illustrate the fundamental role of language in political action, focusing on the war in Iraq. It combines quantitative methods...

Stimulated Recall Methodology in Applied Linguistics and L2 Research provides researchers and students in second language acquisition and applied l...

Continuing on from the previously published Primary School English-Language Education in Asia: From Policy to Practice (Moon & Spolsky, 2012), ...

Using Priming Methods in Second Language Research is an accessible introduction to the use of auditory, semantic, and syntactic priming methods for...

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

The case studies in this book are based on transcripts of classroom interaction in nine different countries. In each chapter, the first author expl...

Linguistic Diversity and Teaching raises questions and provides a context for reflection regarding the complex issues surrounding new English learn...

This book explores the nature of knowledge, language and pedagogy from the perspective of two complementary theories: systemic functional linguisti...

Are you a bit of a chairwarmer? Do you use the wins from a country straight to get scudded on snakebite in a blind tiger? Do you ride the waves on ...

This hands-on, practical guide for ESL/EFL teachers and teacher educators outlines, for those who are new to doing action research, what it is and ...

Timely and accessible, this edited volume brings together leading scholars to discuss methods for supporting reconciliation, peace, and sustainable...

This book deals with bilingual education in general, but it pays special attention to bilingual education in monolingual areas. One central aim is ...

This new edition of the Collins COBUILD Phrasal Verbs Dictionary offers comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the most important phrasal verbs i...

Advanced language learning has only recently begun to capture the interest and attention of applied linguists and professionals in language educati...

This textbook introduces current thinking on English as a global language and explores its role in intercultural and transcultural communication. I...

This collection of essays on Spanish pragmatics can be understood in its broadest sense in Iacob L. Mey’s words as «the study of the conditions of ...

An increasing number of contributions have appeared in recent years on the subject of Audiovisual Translation (AVT), particularly in relation to du...

This edited collection combines quantitative content and critical discourse analysis to reveal a shift in the rhetoric used as part of the neoliber...

This new edition of the Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary offers comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the most important English idioms from ar...

This volume takes a broad view of multimodality as it applies to a wide range of subject areas, curriculum design, and classroom processes to exami...

Butler and Huang’s book is one of the first to focus on second language (L2) development research methods and techniques specifically targeted at c...

This collection sheds light on the ways in which corpus linguistics and the use of learner corpora might be applied to the study of academic discou...

This volume explores the socio-political dynamics, historical forces, and unequal power relationships which mediate language ideologies in Mexican ...

Corpus Use in Italian Language Pedagogy: Exploring the Effects of Data-Driven Learning provides a comprehensive overview of corpus use in Italian L...