Routledge Research in Language Education
About the Book Series
The Routledge Research in Language Education series provides a platform for established and emerging scholars to present their latest research and discuss key issues in Language Education. This series welcomes books on all areas of language teaching and learning, including but not limited to language education policy and politics, multilingualism, literacy, L1, L2 or foreign language acquisition, curriculum, classroom practice, pedagogy, teaching materials, and language teacher education and development. Books in the series are not limited to the discussion of the teaching and learning of English only.
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
AnnaMary Goodall: [email protected]– Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Hardwick: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
K-12 Classroom Research in Language Teaching and Learning: Narratives for Understanding and Engaging in Teacher Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Kate Mastruserio Reynolds, Khanh-Duc Kuttig
December 10, 2025
This edited volume presents narratives on a range of methods for research on second language teaching and learning appropriate to the elementary, middle, and high schools (K-12). Teacher researchers in different worldwide contexts narrate their processes to explain and demonstrate practitioner ...
Methodological Issues and Reflexivity Practices in Qualitative Language Teacher Education Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Gloria Park, Oksana Moroz, Sarah Henderson Lee, Bedrettin Yazan
November 28, 2025
This volume brings together researchers from around the world, including Mexico, USA, China, Japan, Iran, Turkiye, Indonesia and the UAE, conducting qualitative research in the field of language teacher education. Each chapter highlights cutting-edge research in language teacher education with ...
Metacognitive Listening Instruction in the Second Language Classroom: Integrating Theory, Method, and Practice
1st Edition
By Naheen Madarbakus-Ring
October 20, 2025
This book addresses the gap between listening theory and practice by providing an outline of listening theory, offering practical listening methods, and presenting how metacognitive instruction can be integrated into real lesson practice. Applying these methods to teaching and learning can provide ...
Agency in Multilingual Education Policy and Planning in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Syed Abdul Manan, Anas Hajar
September 30, 2025
Manan and Hajar invite experts and seasoned researchers from Asian contexts to explore the nuanced dynamics of language policy and educational practices in Asia, underscoring the importance of understanding local agency at a micro-level. The chapters of this title engage in the critical exploration...
Social Media and Language Learning: Using TikTok and Instagram
1st Edition
By Yeong-Ju Lee
August 18, 2025
This book explores creative uses of social media for informal language learning. It focuses on the underexplored area of how informal language learning adapts to technological innovations in two multimodal media-sharing platforms: TikTok and Instagram. Drawing on ecological perspectives of language...
Language Teacher Identity Tensions: Nexus of Agency, Emotion, and Investment
1st Edition
Edited
By Zia Tajeddin, Bedrettin Yazan
July 31, 2025
Addressing the critical issue of teacher identity tensions, this edited volume looks at the tensions between teachers’ instructional beliefs, values, and priorities, and the contextual constraints and requirements. It examines how teachers deal with these tensions to avoid demotivation and burnout,...
Performative Language Learning with Refugees and Migrants: Embodied Research and Practice in the Sorgente Project
1st Edition
Edited
By Erika Piazzoli, Fiona Dalziel
July 31, 2025
This book investigates the use of performative language pedagogy in working with refugees and migrants, exploring performative language teaching as the application of drama, music, dance and storytelling to second language acquisition. Documenting a community-based project – funded by the Irish ...
Building the Self-Efficacy Beliefs of English Language Learners and Teachers: New Perspectives for Research, Teaching and Learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Wyatt, Farahnaz Faez
June 27, 2025
Building the Self-Efficacy Beliefs of English Language Learners and Teachers explores, juxtaposes and bridges two fields of research that have developed separately: the self-efficacy beliefs of English language learners and the self-efficacy beliefs of English language teachers. The aim is to ...
Ecological Perspectives in Early Language Education: Parent, Teacher, Peer, and Child Agency in Interaction
1st Edition
By Mila Schwartz
June 27, 2025
This book presents ecological perspectives towards early language education that conceptualise the phenomenon of interactions between child language-based agency, teachers’ agency, peers’ agency and parents’ agency, consequently furthering insights into the lives of young children growing up in ...
English for Academic and Specific Purposes in the Classroom: From Theory to Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosmawati, Marjolijn Verspoor
May 27, 2025
This volume showcases curriculum designs, instructional strategies, classroom challenges, and assessment practices in courses around the world introduced to meet the demand for English language skills for academic (EAP) or specific purposes (ESP) in higher education settings. Particularly in ...
Exploring the Power of Social Talk in a Foreign Language: Possibilities for Integration and Critical Pedagogy
1st Edition
By Gerrard Mugford
May 05, 2025
This book examines the fundamental interactional dimension to foreign language communication, including the establishment, development, consolidation and maintenance of interpersonal relations. It argues that interpersonal language use such as small talk, casual conversation and gossipy talk is not...
Critical Foreign Language Teaching: Centring Student Agency in Foreign Language Pedagogy
1st Edition
By Gerrard Mugford
April 21, 2025
This book develops the theory and practice of critical foreign language pedagogy. Written by a distinguished scholar of pragmatics and sociolinguistics, it encourages educators to think beyond traditional methods of language teaching to consider both the social reality of being a foreign language ...