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
Developing Critical Cultural Awareness in Modern Languages: A Comparative Study of Higher Education in North America and the United Kingdom
1st Edition
By Elinor Parks
December 13, 2021
This volume explores the relationship between language and culture while considering its implications for the teaching of modern foreign languages in higher education. Drawing on a comparative empirical study conducted at universities both in the UK and US, this text problematises the impacts of a ...
The Impact of Mother Tongue Illiteracy on Second Language Acquisition: The Case of French and Wolof in Senegal
1st Edition
By Moustapha Fall
December 13, 2021
This text illustrates the crucial role of the mother tongue literacy in second language acquisition by presenting findings from a comparative study conducted in primary schools in Senegal. In addition, the volume provides an in-depth look at the linguistic history of Senegal before, during, and ...
Multilingual Approaches for Teaching and Learning: From Acknowledging to Capitalising on Multilingualism in European Mainstream Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudine Kirsch, Joana Duarte
September 30, 2021
Multilingual Approaches for Teaching and Learning outlines the opportunities and challenges of multilingual approaches in mainstream education in Europe. The book, which draws on research findings from several officially monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual countries in Europe, discusses ...
TESOL and the Cult of Speed in the Age of Neoliberal Mobility
1st Edition
By Osman Barnawi
September 30, 2021
TESOL and the Cult of Speed in the Age of Neoliberal Mobility argues that because the nexus between TESOL and the cult of speed in an age of increased neoliberal mobility has not yet been explicitly unpacked, discussed, identified and theorized, the implications of this socio-economic phenomenon ...
Home Schooling in China: Culture, Religion, Politics, and Gender
1st Edition
By Xiaoming Sheng
June 30, 2021
Home Schooling in China seeks to provide a better understanding of the social movement of home schooling in China. In this book, the author addresses several major themes of home education, including marketization, social stratification, culture, religion, Confucianism, gender policy, gender, and ...
Post-colonial Curriculum Practices in South Asia: Building Confidence to Speak English
1st Edition
By Asantha Attanayake
June 30, 2021
Post-colonial Curriculum Practices in South Asia gives a conceptual framework for curriculum design for English Language Teaching, taking into account context specific features in the teaching–learning settings of post-colonial South Asia. It reveals how the attitudes prevalent in post-colonial ...
Shadowing as a Practice in Second Language Acquisition: Connecting Inputs and Outputs
1st Edition
By Shuhei Kadota
June 30, 2021
Shadowing is a theoretically and empirically well-examined method to develop L2 learners’ listening comprehension (input effect); enhance their subvocal rehearsal mechanism in the phonological working memory for learning new words, formula, and constructions (practice effect); simulate some stages ...
Teaching Content and Language in the Multilingual Classroom: International Research on Policy, Perspectives, Preparation and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Svenja Hammer, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Nancy L. Commins
June 30, 2021
This book brings together research from six different countries across three continents where teacher educators and policy makers are addressing the under-preparation of content teachers to work effectively with multilingual learners. By highlighting this relatively young field of research at an ...
Teaching English for Tourism: Bridging Research and Praxis
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Ennis, Gina Petrie
June 30, 2021
Teaching English for Tourism initiates a sustained academic discussion on the teaching and learning of English to tourism professionals, or to students who aspire to build a career in the tourism industry. Responding to a gap in the field, this is the first book of its kind to explore the ...
Towards a New Paradigm for English Language Teaching: English for Specific Purposes in Asia and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Hajime Terauchi, Judy Noguchi, Akira Tajino
June 30, 2021
This book proposes a new paradigm for English language teaching based on concepts from English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research and applications as well as from growing evidence relating pattern recognition to language learning ability. The contributors to the volume argue that learners should ...
Worldwide English Language Education Today: Ideologies, Policies and Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Ali Al-Issa, Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini
June 30, 2021
This book explores the ideologies, policies, and practices of English language education around the world today. It shows the ways in which ideology is a constituent part of the social realities of English language teaching (ELT) and how ELT policies and practices are shaped by ideological ...
Project-Based Learning in Second Language Acquisition: Building Communities of Practice in Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Adrian Gras-Velazquez
March 31, 2021
This book showcases pedagogical tools for learning languages through interdisciplinary project-based learning (PBL). Chapters demonstrate a diverse range of PBL activities that help students build communities of practice within classroom settings, and across local and global communities.Too often, ...