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:
Manon Berset: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Murray: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
Researching Chinese Language Education: Functional Linguistic Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Shiu-kee Shum, Peter Mickan
May 07, 2020
The culmination of more than a decade of research, this compelling volume offers a fresh approach for applying functional linguistics to assess student performance, to inform the teaching and learning of Chinese and to design curriculum and teaching materials. Documenting authentic systemic ...
The Hopes and Experiences of Bilingual Teachers of English: Investments, Expectations and Identity
1st Edition
By Melinda Kong
May 07, 2020
In this age of internationalisation of higher education, many bilingual teachers from non-English-speaking contexts pursue their postgraduate degrees in English-speaking countries. Most programmes focus on providing content knowledge to them, while neglecting their investments. Furthermore, not ...
The Evolution of English Language Learners in Japan: Crossing Japan, the West, and South East Asia
1st Edition
By Yoko Kobayashi
September 30, 2019
This book seeks a better understanding of the sociocultural and ideological factors that influence English study in Japan and study-abroad contexts such as university-bound high schools, female-dominant English classes at college, ESL schools in Canada, and private or university-affiliated ESL ...
Neoliberalism and English Language Education Policies in the Arabian Gulf
1st Edition
By Osman Barnawi
June 06, 2019
Over the past two decades, the Arabian oil-rich Gulf countries have faced enormous social, political, economic, cultural, religious, ideological and epistemological upheaval. Through detailed, critical comparative investigation, Neoliberalism and English Language Education Policies in the Arabian ...
A New Approach to English Pedagogical Grammar: The Order of Meanings
1st Edition
Edited
By Akira Tajino
March 21, 2019
This book proposes Meaning-order Approach to Pedagogical Grammar (MAP Grammar) as a practical pedagogical approach in ESL and EFL contexts. Teaching grammar through an easy-to-understand three-dimensional model, MAP Grammar establishes the clause as the fundamental unit of English and interprets ...
Space, Place and Autonomy in Language Learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Garold Murray, Terry Lamb
March 21, 2019
This book explores theories of space and place in relation to autonomy in language learning. Encompassing a wide range of linguistically and culturally diverse learning contexts, this edited collection brings together research papers from academics working in fourteen countries. In their studies, ...
Asian English Language Classrooms: Where Theory and Practice Meet
1st Edition
Edited
By Handoyo Widodo, Alistair Wood, Deepti Gupta
January 23, 2019
The teaching of English in the Asian context is always challenging and dynamic because both teachers and learners have diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Equally important, where English is not widely used outside the classroom, English language classrooms are an authentic site of learner...
Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages: A History of Language Education, Assessment and Policy in Britain
1st Edition
By Nicola McLelland
January 17, 2019
Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages provides a comprehensive history of language teaching and learning in the UK from its earliest beginnings to the year 2000. McLelland offers the first history of the social context of foreign language education in Britain, as well as an overview of changing ...
The Space and Practice of Reading: A Case Study of Reading and Social Class in Singapore
1st Edition
By Chin Ee Loh
August 14, 2018
Mirroring worldwide debates on social class, literacy rates, and social change, this study explores the intersection between reading and social class in Singapore, one of the top scorers on the Programme for International Assessment (PISA) tests, and questions the rhetoric of social change that ...
Teacher Agency and Policy Response in English Language Teaching
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrick C. L. Ng, Esther F. Boucher-Yip
May 11, 2018
The role of English in the global arena has prompted official language-in-education policy makers to adopt language education policies to enable its citizens to be proficient in English and to access knowledge. Local educational contexts in different countries have implemented English education in ...
Language, Ideology and Education: The politics of textbooks in language education
1st Edition
Edited
By Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen, Csilla Weninger
March 14, 2018
This book examines the role textbooks play in the teaching of dominant and non-dominant (first and foreign) languages in a range of cultural contexts worldwide. Each chapter addresses important issues related to what constitutes "legitimate knowledge", the politics of learning materials, global ...
Teaching Chinese Literacy in the Early Years: Psychology, pedagogy and practice
1st Edition
By Hui Li
March 14, 2018
The Chinese language is now used by a quarter of the world’s population and is increasingly popular as a second language. Teaching Chinese Literacy in the Early Years comprehensively investigates the psychology, pedagogy and practice involved in teaching Chinese literacy to young children. This ...