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.
The Pedagogy and Practice of Western-trained Chinese English Language Teachers: Foreign Education, Chinese Meanings
1st Edition
By Pu Hong, Faridah Pawan
November 13, 2013
Providing an East-West flow of language teaching knowledge and know-how to balance prevailing Western-centric perspectives, this book is an in-depth investigation of the impact of Western-based language teacher education on the pedagogy and practice of Chinese English language teachers who received...
English Grammar Pedagogy: A Global Perspective
1st Edition
By Barbara M. Birch
September 23, 2013
Designed for ESL and ELT pedagogy courses around the world, this text describes English grammar from a World Englishes perspective. It is distinguished by its focus on the social setting for English as a global language, the latest thinking about grammatical theory, and new theories of how first ...
Describing and Explaining Grammar and Vocabulary in ELT: Key Theories and Effective Practices
1st Edition
By Dilin Liu
July 22, 2013
Language description plays an important role in language learning/teaching because it often determines what specific language forms, features, and usages are taught and how. A good understanding of language description is vital for language teachers and material writers and should constitute an ...
L2 Writing in Secondary Classrooms: Student Experiences, Academic Issues, and Teacher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Luciana C. de Oliveira, Tony Silva
March 25, 2013
Second language writers and the teaching of writing at the secondary level have received little attention compared with other skills such as reading. Addressing this gap, this volume uniquely looks at both adolescent L2 writing and the preparation of secondary teachers to work with this population ...
Principles and Practices for Response in Second Language Writing: Developing Self-Regulated Learners
1st Edition
By Maureen Snow Andrade, Norman W. Evans
October 29, 2012
Based on the assumptions that students expect feedback and want to improve, and that improvement is possible, this book introduces a framework that applies the theory of self-regulated learning to guide second language writing teachers’ response to learners at all stages of the writing process. ...
Principles and Practices for Teaching English as an International Language
1st Edition
Edited
By Lubna Alsagoff, Sandra Lee Mckay, Guangwei Hu, Willy A. Renandya
March 19, 2012
What general principles should inform a socioculturally sensitive pedagogy for teaching English as an International Language and what practices would be consistent with these principles? This text explores the pedagogical implications of the continuing spread of English and its role as an ...
Language Teacher Education for a Global Society: A Modular Model for Knowing, Analyzing, Recognizing, Doing, and Seeing
1st Edition
By B. Kumaravadivelu
November 10, 2011
The field of second/foreign language teacher education is calling out for a coherent and comprehensive framework for teacher preparation in these times of accelerating economic, cultural, and educational globalization. Responding to this call, this book introduces a state-of-the-art model for ...
Pragmatics for Language Educators: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
1st Edition
By Virginia LoCastro
August 29, 2011
Making pragmatics accessible to a wide range of students and instructors without dumbing down the content of the field, this text for language professionals: raises awareness and increases knowledge and understanding of how human beings use language in real situations to engage in social action ...
Intelligibility in World Englishes: Theory and Application
1st Edition
By Cecil L. Nelson
May 02, 2011
Intelligibility is the term most generally used to address the complex of criteria that describe, broadly, how useful someone’s English is when talking or writing to someone else. Set within the paradigm of world Englishes – which posits that the Englishes of the world may be seen as flexibly ...
Case Studies in Language Curriculum Design: Concepts and Approaches in Action Around the World
1st Edition
By John Macalister, I.S.P. Nation
March 14, 2011
Case studies are a powerful pedagogical tool for illuminating constructs and models in real-life contexts. Covering a wide range of teaching-learning contexts and offering in-depth analyses of ESL/ELT language curriculum design issues, this casebook is distinctive and unique in that each case draws...
Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning: Volume 2
1st Edition
Edited
By Eli Hinkel
January 18, 2011
This landmark volume provides a broad-based, comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research into second language teaching and learning. All authors are leading authorities in their areas of expertise. The chapters, all completely new for Volume 2, are organized in eight ...
Research on Second Language Teacher Education: A Sociocultural Perspective on Professional Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen E. Johnson, Paula R. Golombek
November 24, 2010
Embracing a sociocultural perspective on human cognition and employing an array of methodological tools for data collection and analysis, this volume documents the complexities of second language teachers’ professional development in diverse L2 teacher education programs around the world, including...