Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics
Exploring Language Teaching and Learning: Insights from Systemic Functional Linguistics
1st Edition
By Marianna V. Ryshina-Pankova
April 19, 2027
This book highlights the potential for Systemic Functional Theory (SFL) to enhance and promote world languages (WL) learning and achieve successful learning outcomes in the humanities. The volume charts how SFL has evolved from Michael Halliday’s early work into an appliable framework that can be ...
Multilingual International Students in University Classrooms: Multimodal Approaches to Interaction
1st Edition
By Yumi Matsumoto
March 17, 2027
This book elucidates the communicative practices of multilingual international students in university classrooms, charting how they employ not only speech but also a rich set of nonverbal semiotic resources for successful communication. Matsumoto scrutinizes multilingual multimodal interactional ...
Ecological Agency in Language Education: Learners, Teachers, Tasks, and Technologies in Sociomaterial Classrooms
1st Edition
By Masakazu Mishima
March 16, 2027
This book examines ecological agency in language education, focusing on how learners and teachers navigate complex pedagogical environments shaped by tasks, tools, feedback, classroom histories, institutional conditions, and emerging technologies. Across seven chapters, the book transitions from a ...
Virtual Intercultural Learning in Action: Connected Classrooms
1st Edition
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By Tamas Kiss, Nicholas Lee Boon Kheng
March 05, 2027
This volume moves beyond assumptions that virtual intercultural exchange is inherently transformative to examine what actually happens when students, teachers, technologies, institutions, and communities interact across cultural and geographical boundaries. Drawing on diverse projects in ...
Language and the Body
1st Edition
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By Peter Joseph Torres, Vaidehi Ramanathan
March 02, 2027
Language is produced through and shaped by bodies, and it is through language that bodies are expressed, understood, and recognized. Language and the Body places this relationship at the center of inquiry, bringing together language research and disability studies, two fields rarely in sustained ...
Spanish for Specific Purposes in the U.S.: From Language Needs Analysis to Evidence-Based Curricular Design and Implementation
1st Edition
By Alyssia M. Miller, Shannon K. Zeller, Nyssa Knarvik, Edward Sarasty, Maura Velázquez-Castillo
February 12, 2027
Spanish for Specific Purposes in the U.S: From Language Needs Analysis to Evidence-Based Curricular Design and Implementation presents a comprehensive framework for designing and implementing Spanish for Specific Purposes curricula grounded in authentic workplace communication. The book ...
Social Justice and Well-Being Perspectives on Language Learning and Bilingualism
1st Edition
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By Annick De Houwer, Meagan Driver
January 15, 2027
This collection explores the myriad factors underpinning equitable approaches to bilingualism and second language learning that can support language users’ and learners’ socio-emotional well-being. Building on the pioneering work of Lourdes Ortega in advancing research on socially-just spaces for ...
Current Approaches to Language Ideology and Metalinguistic Discourse
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By Adnan Ajšić, Rachelle Vessey
November 24, 2026
This collection brings together research on cutting-edge developments at the intersection of language ideology and metalinguistic discourse, showcasing the potential of diverse approaches. With interest in language ideology and metalinguistic discourse growing, numerous qualitative and quantitative...
Washback Research in Language Assessment: Fundamentals and Contexts
1st Edition
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By David Allen
November 24, 2026
Washback is understood as the effect tests have on teaching and learning, with positive washback producing intended outcomes and negative washback generating unintended effects. By surveying the latest developments in the field and charting future directions, this collection offers a comprehensive ...
Rethinking Established Approaches in the Language Classroom and Beyond: Noncolonial Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Lisa Marie Brinkmann, Franziska Gerwers, Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, Claudio Vicente Millacura Salas
October 12, 2026
This volume approaches language education through the lens of noncoloniality. The three parts of this volume comprise a discussion of noncolonial perspectives on the language classroom, an examination of noncolonial pedagogical proposals, and a critical analysis of teaching materials and normative ...
Agendas in English-Medium Instruction from Eastern Europe
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By Piotr Romanowski
September 30, 2026
The volume explores the transformative impact of English as a medium of instruction in higher education across Eastern Europe. It delves into the motivations, challenges, and strategies of institutions adopting English-medium instruction, highlighting its role in fostering internationalization, ...
Resisting ESL at a Hawai‘i High School: Identity, Ideology, and Order at Tradewinds High
1st Edition
By Steven Talmy
September 04, 2026
Grounded in critical applied linguistics and linguistic ethnography, this book offers a sustained account of long-term English as a second language (ESL) student resistance at a multilingual public high school in Hawai‘i. This book explores how “oldtimer” ESL students at Tradewinds High contest, ...