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
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 ...
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...
Towards a New Pedagogy for Teaching Foreign Language Politeness: Halliday’s Model and Approaches to Politeness
1st Edition
By Gerrard Mugford
May 27, 2024
This book examines how foreign language speakers establish and maintain social and transactional relationships in their target language, and how pedagogic intervention can help learners implement practices that will allow them to participate and react in both socially acceptable and ...
Transnational Language Teacher Identities in TESOL: Identity Construction Among Female International Students in the U.S.
1st Edition
By Hyesun Cho, Reem Al-Samiri, Junfu Gao
May 27, 2024
Drawing on Bakhtin’s notion of ideological becoming and the concepts of intersectionality and transnationalism, this volume offers a unique conceptual framework to explore and better understand the identity construction and negotiation of international TESOL students. Focusing on female graduate ...