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Douglas E. Bell – Multilingual Matters, 2024
Since its inception in the 1960s, the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) has enjoyed a period of almost continual expansion and growth and now represents a multi-million dollar industry worldwide. This book provides readers with a critical and comprehensive overview of EAP's birth, its historical development and its ongoing trajectory,…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Privatization
Milica Savic; Anders Myrset; Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book introduces the main concepts of pragmatics as they relate to the young English language learner classroom and research with young second language learners (YLLs). It considers the speech acts which are particularly relevant to YLLs and presents research findings on learners' development of speech act perception and production. It…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Pragmatics, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers
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Hayo Reinders Ed. – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2023
This edited book brings together an international cast of contributors and chapters which recognise the complexity of teacher leadership and its situated and dynamic nature. Chapters in this book are research-driven, and each reports on findings from (teacher-led and otherwise) research, synthesising the current state-of-the-art in each area. Each…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Leadership, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Marianne Nikolov, Editor; Stela Letica Krevelj, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2024
Over the past six decades, the field of teaching modern foreign languages to young learners has come a long way, from the early surmises about the advantages of a young start to today's widespread integration of foreign languages into curricula in public and private schools. The chapters in this book bring together internationally renowned…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, FLES
Dimitra Karoulla-Vrikki, Editor; Lucilla Lopriore, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2025
This volume presents research on oracy development in early language learning, with a particular focus on the pedagogical implications for growingly plurilingual classrooms. The chapters offer empirical results from diverse international contexts which reveal common and differing experiences of teaching methodologies and assessment practices,…
Descriptors: Oral Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ibrahim, Nizar Kamal – English Language Education, 2022
This book discusses how to approach critical literacy in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts. It responds to the concerns of educators who get enthusiastic about teaching critical literacy, but become perplexed when they start reading about its theories. This causes some to avoid it altogether and leads others to argue for practicing it…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Saskia Kersten Ed.; Christian Ludwig Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book is the first to focus specifically on born-digital texts in EFL teaching, uniting international and innovative scholarship with practical classroom applications. The book develops a theoretically sound framework for curriculum, materials and methods design that takes into account the growing ubiquity of born-digital texts in the digital…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Walter, Daniel R. – Multilingual Matters, 2023
This book applies a psycholinguistic perspective to instructed second language acquisition, seeking to bridge the gap between second language acquisition research and language teaching practices. It challenges the traditional divide between conscious and unconscious processes, or explicit and implicit learning, and re-envisions this as a continuum…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Linh Phung, Editor; Hayo Reinders, Editor; Vu Phi Ho Pham, Editor – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2024
This book investigates the ways in which new developments in areas of language teaching practice, such as policy-making, planning, methodology and the use of educational technology are locally adopted, adapted, initiated, and implemented in Vietnam and Cambodia. The region is responding to a large number of significant challenges, including…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Yang, Chengsong; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – English Language Education, 2023
This book addresses the validity of think-aloud protocols (TAPs) in L2 writing research through a mixed methods study and proposes effective approaches for their valid implementation. The book uncovers the reactive effects that TAPs have on L2 writing performance and processes, and examines how individual factors moderate this reactivity. It…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction
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Albert Weideman – Educational Linguistics, 2024
This book adopts as conceptual focus the technical mode of experience, exploring this characteristic mode of design as the angle from which the discipline of applied linguistics takes its cue. What makes applied linguistic concept formation possible? A number of elementary concepts and ideas are so basic to the discipline that they can neither be…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Language Research, Instructional Design
Esimaje, Alexandra, Ed.; van Rooy, Bertus, Ed.; Jolayemi, 'Demola, Ed.; Nkemleke, Daniel, Ed.; Klu, Ernest, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023
This book brings together the work of African scholars and educators directly involved in initiatives to improve the teaching and learning of English in higher education across Africa. Offering alternative perspectives across different African countries with examples of decolonised practice in research, the book provides a critical discussion and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
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Angelini, M. Laura – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2021
This book is written for teacher educators who are looking for strategies to teach a foreign or second language in a more meaningful way whilst applying active methodologies to develop critical thinking skills. The book is designed to guide the readers through a series of simulations that provide challenging learning opportunities, similar to the…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods, Simulation
Muir, Christine – Multilingual Matters, 2020
Directed motivational currents (DMCs) are goal-directed motivational surges in pursuit of a much-desired personal outcome. This book introduces the reader to cutting-edge theory and research in second language learner motivation and presents empirical research which investigates DMCs in the context of language learning. The studies explore the…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Student Motivation, Learning Motivation
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Fabiana Fazzi – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2025
This book takes a look at the affordances of engaging second/foreign language students in educational projects that bridge the gap between the classroom and the museum. Studies on language learning and teaching beyond the classroom have shown that students learn in different settings and through different types of activities and that their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Museums, Learning Experience
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