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
Dialogue in the Language Classroom: Theory and Practice from a Classroom Discourse Analysis
1st Edition
By Roehl Sybing
November 29, 2024
By providing a contemporary understanding of theories on classroom dialogue through a sociocultural lens, Sybing offers innovative ways to observe and foster more engaged interaction between teacher and student, particularly in language learning contexts. How teachers interact with students has a ...
EAL Research for the Classroom: Practical and Pedagogical Implications
1st Edition
Edited
By Gavin Brooks, Jon Clenton, Simon Fraser
November 29, 2024
With an estimated 1.6 million English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners in the UK, and over 5 million in the USA, EAL research is urgently needed to inform practice. This edited volume investigates the multifaceted elements that shape EAL pedagogy and research in a variety of settings and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Performed Culture in Action to Teach Chinese as a Foreign Language: Integrating PCA into Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Assessment
1st Edition
Edited
By Jianfen Wang, Junqing (Jessie) Jia
May 27, 2024
This volume explores best practices in implementing the Performed Culture Approach (PCA) in teaching Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). Offering a range of chapters that demonstrate how PCA has been successfully applied to curriculum, instructional design, and assessment in CFL programs and ...
Pluricentric Languages and Language Education: Pedagogical Implications and Innovative Approaches to Language Teaching
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcus Callies, Stefanie Hehner
May 27, 2024
This book maps out the pedagogical implications of the global spread and diversification of pluricentric languages for language education and showcases new approaches that can take account of linguistic diversity. Moving the discussion of contemporary norms, aims, and approaches to pluricentric ...
Teacher Well-Being in English Language Teaching: An Ecological Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Luis Javier Pentón Herrera, Gilda Martínez-Alba, Ethan Trinh
May 27, 2024
This edited volume brings the important topic of teacher well-being to the fore, presenting a range of high quality and cutting-edge contributions that illuminate, advance and educate readers on the challenges and criticality of achieving teacher well-being in English language teaching (ELT). ...
Technology in Second Language Writing: Advances in Composing, Translation, Writing Pedagogy and Data-Driven Learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Jingjing Qin, Paul Stapleton
May 27, 2024
This edited volume showcases state-of-the-art research in technological applications in second language writing. It examines multimodal composing, digital feedback, data-driven learning, machine translation, and technological applications in writing pedagogy. Technology in Second Language Writing...