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 students’ and practicing teachers’ 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.
Motivational Currents in Language Learning: Frameworks for Focused Interventions
1st Edition
By Zoltán Dörnyei, Alastair Henry, Christine Muir
September 11, 2015
Building on Zoltán Dörnyei’s authoritative work in the field of learner motivation, this book introduces a new conceptualization—Directed Motivational Currents (DMCs)—and sets out the defining aspects of what they are, what they are not, and how they are related to language learning motivation. ...
Creativity in Language Teaching: Perspectives from Research and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Rodney H. Jones, Jack C. Richards
September 09, 2015
Current, comprehensive, and authoritative, this text gives language teachers and researchers, both a set of conceptual tools with which to think and talk about creativity in language teaching and a wealth of practical advice about principles and practices that can be applied to making their lessons...
Teaching and Assessing EIL in Local Contexts Around the World
1st Edition
By Sandra Lee Mckay, James Dean Brown
August 10, 2015
English today is a global language embedded in a great variety of social contexts, resulting in linguistic and pedagogical variation. Taking a new look at the teaching and assessing of English as an international language (EIL), this text highlights overarching principles and provides specific ...
ESL Readers and Writers in Higher Education: Understanding Challenges, Providing Support
1st Edition
Edited
By Norman W. Evans, Neil J Anderson, William G. Eggington
June 19, 2015
ESL Readers and Writers in Higher Education describes the challenges ESL students in U.S. postsecondary institutions face when studying in a second language, and offers suggestions for how teachers, advisors, tutors, and institutions might provide support that meets the reading and writing needs of...
Effective Curriculum for Teaching L2 Writing: Principles and Techniques
1st Edition
By Eli Hinkel
March 11, 2015
Effective Curriculum for Teaching L2 Writing sets out a clear big picture for curricular thinking about L2 writing pedagogy and offers a step-by-step guide to curriculum design with practical examples and illustrations. Its main purpose is to help pre-service and practicing teachers design courses ...
Promoting Teacher Reflection in Second Language Education: A Framework for TESOL Professionals
1st Edition
By Thomas S. C. Farrell
December 12, 2014
Taking the concept and the practice of reflective teaching forward, this book introduces a well-structured, flexible framework for use by teachers at all levels of development, from pre-service to novice to the most experienced. The framework outlines five levels of reflective practice—Philosophy; ...
Ambiguities and Tensions in English Language Teaching: Portraits of EFL Teachers as Legitimate Speakers
1st Edition
By Peter Sayer
November 10, 2014
The central theme of this book is the ambiguities and tensions teachers face as they attempt to position themselves in ways that legitimize them as language teachers, and as English speakers. Focusing on three EFL teachers and their schools in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, it ...
Language Learning Beyond the Classroom
1st Edition
Edited
By David Nunan, Jack C. Richards
October 14, 2014
This volume presents case studies of language learning beyond the classroom. The studies draw on a wide range of contexts, from North and South America to Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Each provides principled links between theory, research and practice. While out-of-class learning will not...
Pronunciation and Phonetics: A Practical Guide for English Language Teachers
1st Edition
By Adam Brown
March 13, 2014
This engaging, succinct text is an introduction to both phonetics and phonology as applied to the teaching of pronunciation to English language learners. Section 1 selectively covers the main areas of phonetics and phonology, without going into any area in more depth than the average English ...
Sociocultural Theory and the Pedagogical Imperative in L2 Education: Vygotskian Praxis and the Research/Practice Divide
1st Edition
By James P. Lantolf, Matthew E. Poehner
February 21, 2014
Explicating clearly and concisely the full implication of a praxis-oriented language pedagogy, this book argues for an approach to language teaching grounded in a significant scientific theory of human learning—a stance that rejects the consumer approach to theory and the dichotomy between theory ...
Using Statistics in Small-Scale Language Education Research: Focus on Non-Parametric Data
1st Edition
By Jean L. Turner
February 20, 2014
Assuming no familiarity with statistical methods, this text for language education research methods and statistics courses provides detailed guidance and instruction on principles of designing, conducting, interpreting, reading, and evaluating statistical research done in classroom settings ...
Chicano-Anglo Conversations: Truth, Honesty, and Politeness
1st Edition
By Madeleine Youmans
February 13, 2014
This groundbreaking book--about differences in communication practices between Mexican-American underclass residents in an East Los Angeles housing project and white, middle-class literacy tutors who worked with them--makes an important contribution to research on the sociolinguistics of the ...