ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
About the Book Series
This series provides essential texts on teaching English as a second language and applied linguistics. It includes authored and edited volumes to be used as primary or supplementary texts in graduate-level and teacher training courses to enhance studentsโ and practicing teachersโ professional qualifications and knowledge. Each text is designed to promote the current and growing body of knowledge in applied linguistics and second language teaching, including advances in teacher education and the study of language.
Specifically, the series includes, but is not limited to, current uses of applied linguistics research in teaching a variety of second language skills, such as reading, writing, speaking and listening; materials and curriculum design; literacy; English for academic purposes; and research methods.
The texts also deal with broad domains of professional preparation related to socio-cultural perspectives and current issues/topics in teaching and learning a second language.
Books in the series benefit not only students, but experienced teachers, curriculum developers, teacher trainers, program administrators, and other second and foreign language professionals seeking to advance and update their knowledge and expertise.
Handbook of Practical Second Language Teaching and Learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Eli Hinkel
September 29, 2022
This authoritative volume is a practical, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research on second and foreign language teaching and learning. Thorough and reader-friendly, the Handbook is organized logically into six parts that address all major areas of L2/FL ...
Creating Classrooms of Peace in English Language Teaching
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara M. Birch
June 09, 2022
Timely and accessible, this edited volume brings together leading scholars to discuss methods for supporting reconciliation, peace, and sustainable and social change in English language teaching. Around the world, peace and reconciliation are urgent themes that are inextricably connected to the ...
Doing Reflective Practice in English Language Teaching: 120 Activities for Effective Classroom Management, Lesson Planning, and Professional Development
1st Edition
By Thomas S. C. Farrell
December 30, 2021
This practical and engaging book introduces readers to reflective practice in English language teaching. Assuming no background knowledge, Thomas S. C. Farrell clearly and accessibly walks through ways that teachers can integrate and implement reflective practice in the classroom and in other ...
What English Language Teachers Need to Know Volume III: Designing Curriculum
2nd Edition
By MaryAnn Christison, Denise E. Murray
October 26, 2021
Designed for pre-service and novice teachers in ELT, What English Language Teachers Need to Know Volumes I, II, and III are companion textbooks organized around the key question: What do teachers need to know and be able to do in order to help their students to learn English?Thoroughly revised and ...
Teaching and Learning Second Language Listening: Metacognition in Action
2nd Edition
By Christine C. M. Goh, Larry Vandergrift
July 27, 2021
Now in its second edition, this reader-friendly text offers a comprehensive treatment of concepts and knowledge related to teaching second language (L2) listening, with a particular emphasis on metacognition. This book advocates a learner-oriented approach to teaching listening that focuses on the ...
Foundational Principles of Task-Based Language Teaching
1st Edition
By Martin East
July 01, 2021
This book is available Open Access. This book introduces readers to the concept of task-based language teaching (TBLT), a learner-centred and experiential approach to language teaching and learning. Based on the premise that language learners can enhance their second language acquisition (SLA) ...
Storytelling in Multilingual Interaction: A Conversation Analysis Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean Wong, Hansun Zhang Waring
March 02, 2021
Integral to the tapestry of social interaction, storytelling is the focus of interest for scholars from a diverse range of academic disciplines. This volume combines the study of conversation analysis (CA) with storytelling in multilingual contexts to examine how multilingual speakers converse and ...
Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking
2nd Edition
By Jonathan M. Newton, I.S.P. Nation
October 27, 2020
This guide for teachers and teacher trainees provides a wealth of suggestions for helping learners at all levels of proficiency develop their listening and speaking skills and fluency, using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning. By following these suggestions, which are ...
Reconciling Translingualism and Second Language Writing
1st Edition
Edited
By Tony Silva, Zhaozhe Wang
September 14, 2020
This book brings together top scholars on different sides of the important scholarly debate between the translingual movement and the field of second language writing. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, this volume examines the differences in theory and practice with the hope of promoting ...
Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy: A Guide for ESL/EFL Teachers
2nd Edition
By Jean Wong, Hansun Zhang Waring
August 04, 2020
Now in its second edition, this volume offers a strong synthesis of classic and current work in conversation analysis (CA), usefully encapsulated in a model of interactional practices that comprise interactional competence. Through this synthesis, Wong and Waring demonstrate how CA findings can ...
Teaching Academic L2 Writing: Practical Techniques in Vocabulary and Grammar
2nd Edition
By Eli Hinkel
July 31, 2020
The new edition of this comprehensive text fills an important role in teacher professional preparation by focusing on how to teach the grammar and vocabulary that are essential for all L2 writing teachers and student-writers. Before L2 writers can begin to successfully produce academic prose, they ...
English L2 Reading: Getting to the Bottom
4th Edition
By Barbara M. Birch, Sean Fulop
July 23, 2020
English L2 Reading: Getting to the Bottom uses research-based insights to examine bottom-up skills in reading English as a second language. This fourth edition clearly presents core concepts alongside their practical applications to teaching contexts, with updated research findings, a new focus on ...