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
Team Teachers in Japan: Beliefs, Identities, and Emotions
1st Edition
Edited
By Takaaki Hiratsuka
November 29, 2024
This book provides insights into the professional and personal lives of local language teachers and foreign language teachers who conduct team-taught lessons together. It does this by using the Japanese context as an illustrative example. It re-explores in this context the professional experiences ...
Sublating Second Language Research and Practices: Contribution from the Hegelian Perspective
1st Edition
By Manfred Man-fat Wu
November 28, 2024
Wu’s book provides an innovative perspective on, and recommendations for, the major aspects of second language (L2) teaching from a Hegelian anthro-philosophical perspective. Language is social in nature and is related to the larger social milieu. Hegelian philosophy of language complements ...
Expertise in Second Language Writing Instruction: Conceptual and Empirical Understandings
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan Hirvela, Diane D. Belcher
November 25, 2024
Despite growing interest in L2 writing teachers, there is a dearth of published works that specifically delve into the nuances of the development of L2 writing teacher expertise. Informed by relevant foundational theory and empirical research, this book addresses this crucial gap in the ...
A Paradigm Shift for Language Education: Project-Based Learning and Teaching
1st Edition
By Gulbahar H. Beckett
November 01, 2024
This book investigates the argument for the significance and necessity of project-based learning and teaching (PBLT), as it becomes increasingly important in language education. Drawing on research and professional literature spanning over 100 years, it explores the research foundations and ...
Educating Emergent Bilingual Youth in High School: The Promise of Critical Language and Literacy Education
1st Edition
By Jie Park
October 08, 2024
This book revolves around educating recently arrived immigrant youth in the United States who are emergent bilinguals. Drawing on a seven-year research collaboration with three ESL teachers in an urban secondary school in the United States, it addresses questions around taking a critical approach ...
International L2 Students' Engagement with Teacher Feedback: Perspectives from a Globalised Higher Education Context
1st Edition
By Fangfei Li
September 30, 2024
Fangfei Li investigates L2 international students’ engagement with teacher feedback in the UK higher education system. She focuses on Chinese students studying at a UK university and explores their engagement with the feedback from local teachers and the factors which influence their participation ...
Questioning the Native Speaker Construct in Teacher Education: Enabling Multilingual Identities and Decolonial Language Pedagogies
1st Edition
By Julie Waddington
September 23, 2024
Questioning the construction of the ‘native speaker’ as an authority and ideal in language education, this book offers a critical and accessible engagement with research problematising notions of ‘nativeness’ while emphasising the interactional and ongoing nature of identity construction. Crossing ...
Taboos and Controversial Issues in Foreign Language Education: Critical Language Pedagogy in Theory, Research and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Ludwig, Theresa Summer
August 26, 2024
This edited volume provides innovative insights into how critical language pedagogy and taboo topics can inform and transform the teaching and learning of foreign languages. The book investigates the potential as well as the challenges involved in dealing with taboo topics in the foreign language ...
The Acquisition of English Grammar and Phonology by Cantonese ESL Learners: Challenges, Causes and Pedagogical Insights
1st Edition
By Alice Yin Wa Chan
August 26, 2024
Chan’s exploration of the acquisition of English grammar and phonology by Cantonese learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) offers insights into the specific challenges that learners often encounter and posits ways to help them overcome those challenges. Possible sources of the challenges ...
Pedagogies for Autonomy in Language Teacher Education: Perspectives on Professional Learning, Identity, and Agency
1st Edition
Edited
By Manuel Jiménez Raya, Borja Manzano Vázquez, Flávia Vieira
June 28, 2024
This book aims to challenge established teaching cultures to promote teacher autonomy and autonomy-oriented pedagogies in language teacher education. Offering a set of inspiring case studies that illustrate language teacher education for autonomy as a space of multiple possibilities, the book fuses...
Mediation as Negotiation of Meanings, Plurilingualism and Language Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Bessie Dendrinos
June 04, 2024
Bringing together the voices of a diverse group of scholars and language professionals, this edited collection, concerned with the cultivation of plurilingualism in multilingual educational settings, builds on the theory and practice of linguistic and cultural mediation both as curricular content ...
Researching Educational Practices, Teacher Education and Professional Development for Early Language Learning: Examples from Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandie Mourão, Carolyn Leslie
June 03, 2024
Recognising the urgent need for further progress in teacher education and preparation for the success of early language learning, this volume presents research on the education and professional development of teachers, exploring how they can foster multilingual spaces in the early years of formal ...