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.
Teaching Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Heritage Language Students: Curriculum Needs, Materials, and Assessment
1st Edition
Edited
By Kimi Kondo-Brown, James Dean Brown
August 29, 2007
This book contributes to building the research knowledge that language teaching professionals need in developing curriculum for the large population of East Asian heritage students (including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) in countries like the United States, Canada, and Australia, where speakers ...
Classroom Interactions as Cross-Cultural Encounters: Native Speakers in EFL Lessons
1st Edition
By Jasmine C. M. Luk, Angel M. Y. Lin
August 03, 2006
Classroom Interactions as Cross-Cultural Encounters is about native English speakers teaching English as a global language in non-English speaking countries. Through analysis of naturally occurring dialogic encounters, the authors examine the multifaceted ways in which teachers and students ...
CALL Dimensions: Options and Issues in Computer-Assisted Language Learning
1st Edition
By Mike Levy, Glenn Stockwell
May 31, 2006
This volume gives language teachers, software designers, and researchers who wish to use technology in second or foreign language education the information they need to absorb what has been achieved so far and to make sense of it. It is designed to enable the kind of critical reading of a ...
Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Shondel J. Nero
March 03, 2006
This volume brings together a multiplicity of voices--both theoretical and practical--on the complex politics, challenges, and strategies of educating students--in North America and worldwide--who are speakers of diverse or nonstandard varieties of English, creoles, and hybrid varieties of English,...
Researching Second Language Classrooms
1st Edition
By Sandra Lee Mckay
January 20, 2006
This text introduces teachers to research methods they can use to examine their own classrooms in order to become more effective teachers. Becoming familiar with classroom-based research methods not only enables teachers to do research in their own classrooms, it also provides a basis for assessing...
Ideas and Options in English for Specific Purposes
1st Edition
By Helen Basturkmen
November 16, 2005
This volume presents a range of views about language, learning, and teaching in English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Its purpose is to go beyond individual cases and practices to examine the approaches and ideas on which they are based. The aim is for readers to adopt an analytical stance toward ...
Understanding Language Teaching: From Method to Postmethod
1st Edition
By B. Kumaravadivelu
September 07, 2005
This book traces the historical development of major language teaching methods in terms of theoretical principles and classroom procedures, and provides a critical evaluation of each. Drawing from seminal, foundational texts and from critical commentaries made by various scholars, Kumaravadivelu ...
CALL Research Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Joy L. Egbert, Gina Mikel Petrie
May 26, 2005
CALL Research Perspectives creates a foundation for the study and practice of computer-assisted language learning and provides an overview of ways to conceptualize and to conduct research in CALL. Its core assumptions are that all approaches to research have a place, and that researchers, teachers,...
Language Minority Students in American Schools: An Education in English
1st Edition
By H. D. Adamson
February 17, 2005
This book addresses questions of language education in the United States, focusing on how to teach the 3.5 million students in American public schools who do not speak English as a native language. These students are at the center of a national debate about the right relationship among ESL, ...
Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By A. Suresh Canagarajah
November 30, 2004
This volume inserts the place of the local in theorizing about language policies and practices in applied linguistics. While the effects of globalization around the world are being discussed in such diverse circles as corporations, law firms, and education, and while the spread of English has come ...
New Perspectives on CALL for Second Language Classrooms
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra Fotos, Charles M. Browne
May 19, 2004
This practical handbook is designed to help language teachers, teacher trainers, and students learn more about their options for using computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and develop an understanding of the theory and research supporting these options. The chapters in New Perspectives on ...
Second Language Writers' Text: Linguistic and Rhetorical Features
1st Edition
By Eli Hinkel
January 01, 2002
This comprehensive and detailed analysis of second language writers' text identifies explicitly and quantifiably where their text differs from that of native speakers of English. The book is based on the results of a large-scale study of university-level native-speaker and non-native-speaker essays...