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
Using Digital Portfolios to Develop Students’ Writing: A Practical Guide for Language Teachers
1st Edition
By Ricky Lam, Benjamin Luke Moorhouse
May 27, 2024
This book equips pre-service teachers, research postgraduate students, teacher educators, and language specialists with specific knowledge and skills about the principles, research, and applications of digital portfolios within the EFL writing contexts. While most digital portfolio scholarship ...
Virtual Exchange for Intercultural Language Learning and Teaching: Fostering Communication for the Digital Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthippi Potolia, Martine Derivry-Plard
May 27, 2024
This book illustrates new virtual intercultural practices for language learning from primary to tertiary education and highlights the transversality of these practices throughout the language curriculum. The current English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) perspective sets the framework as a possible ...
Complexity in Second Language Study Emotions: Emergent Sensemaking in Social Context
1st Edition
By Richard J. Sampson
January 29, 2024
This book offers a socially situated view of the emergence of emotionality for additional language (L2) learners in classroom interaction in Japan. Grounded in a complexity perspective, the author argues that emotions need to be studied as they are dynamically experienced and understood in all of ...
Innovating the TESOL Practicum in Teacher Education: Design, Implementation, and Pedagogy in an Era of Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Chang Pu, Wayne E. Wright
January 29, 2024
Recognizing new opportunities and challenges brought about by technological and social change, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, this volume explores innovative design, implementation, and pedagogy for practica experiences in teacher education programs in the field of Teaching English to Speakers ...
Language Learning Motivation in a Multilingual Chinese Context
1st Edition
By Mairin Hennebry-Leung, Xuesong (Andy) Gao
January 29, 2024
Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data from teachers and students in Hong Kong’s secondary schools, this book examines critical questions in relation to language learning motivation and instructional contexts. Readers are provided with a critical overview of developments in theory and ...
Training Teachers of Chinese in Australia: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications
1st Edition
By Chen Shen
January 29, 2024
Chinese language, the first language spoken and used by the largest population in the world, has witnessed a significant global increase. Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) has thus received unprecedented attention, and teaching and learning of CSL have transcended the national boundary. This book ...
Advocacy for Social and Linguistic Justice in TESOL: Nurturing Inclusivity, Equity, and Social Responsibility in English Language Teaching
1st Edition
Edited
By Christine E. Poteau, Carter A. Winkle
September 25, 2023
Recognizing the need for increased social justice in the fields of TESOL and English language teaching (ELT) globally, this volume presents a range of international case studies and empirical research to demonstrate how English language instruction can promote social and linguistic justice through ...
International Perspectives on Creative Writing in Second Language Education: Supporting Language Learners’ Proficiency, Identity, and Creative Expression
1st Edition
Edited
By Bee Chamcharatsri, Atsushi Iida
September 25, 2023
This volume explores the instructional use of creative writing in secondary and post-secondary contexts to enhance students’ language proficiency and expression in English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL). Offering a diverse range of perspectives from scholars and practitioners involved ...
Narrative Inquiry into Language Teacher Identity: ALTs in the JET Program
1st Edition
By Takaaki Hiratsuka
September 25, 2023
This book provides insights for both native language teachers and local language teachers alike who conduct team-taught lessons by revisiting the topic of foreign assistant language teachers (ALTs), the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program, and team teaching. This book is innovative in that (a...
Pedagogic Practices, Student Engagement and Equity in Chinese as a Foreign Language Education: In Australia and Beyond
1st Edition
By Wen Xu
September 25, 2023
This book explores and analyses Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) pedagogic practices and learning experiences within a cohort of low socio-economic status students within an Australian primary classroom. It demonstrates that, in spite of policy and educational discourses underpinning ‘Asian ...
Becoming and Being a TESOL Teacher Educator: Research and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Rui Yuan, Icy Lee
May 31, 2023
This book offers insights into the lived experiences (e.g., teaching, research, and practicum supervision) of TESOL teacher educators in diverse institutional and socio-cultural contexts. Informed by a situated, ecological perspective, it draws on a variety of research approaches (e.g., qualitative...
Code-Switching as a Pedagogical Tool in Bilingual Classrooms: Insights from a Secondary STEM Classroom in Zimbabwe
1st Edition
By Miriam Chitiga
May 31, 2023
Presenting a mixed methods study conducted in a bilingual mathematics classroom in Zimbabwe, this text reveals the semantic pedagogical functions and linguistic forms of code-switching during STEM instruction. Code-Switching as a Pedagogical Tool in Bilingual Classrooms offers a detailed analysis ...