Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics
Corpus Analysis in Different Genres: Academic Discourse and Learner Corpora
1st Edition
Edited
By María Luisa Carrió-Pastor
May 06, 2022
This collection sheds light on the ways in which corpus linguistics and the use of learner corpora might be applied to the study of academic discourse, revealing linguistic and rhetorical patterns and insights into variation across a range of disciplinary genres. Organized into three sections, the ...
Language Teaching with Video-Based Technologies: Creativity and CALL Teacher Education
1st Edition
By Michael Thomas, Christel Schneider
May 06, 2022
This book explores the implications of technology-mediated project-based language learning for CALL teacher development, focusing on the role of video-based instruction in elucidating challenges and opportunities to promote learner creativity in the language classroom. The volume builds on ...
Researching Interpretive Talk Around Literary Narrative Texts: Shared Novel Reading
1st Edition
By John Gordon
May 06, 2022
Drawing on a multidisciplinary approach integrating insights from conversation analysis, narrative analysis, and narratology, this book theorizes teaching around narrative prose in each level of education, with a focus on a new framework of Pedagogic Literary Narration which emphasizes the practice...
Vocabulary and the Four Skills: Pedagogy, Practice, and Implications for Teaching Vocabulary
1st Edition
Edited
By Jon Clenton, Paul Booth
May 06, 2022
This edited volume provides a single coherent overview of vocabulary teaching and learning in relation to each of the four skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking). Each of the four sections presents a skill area with two chapters presented by two leading experts in the field, relating ...
Online Education for Teachers of English as a Global Language
1st Edition
Edited
By Hyun-Sook Kang, Dong-shin Shin, Tony Cimasko
April 29, 2022
This collection offers a critical examination of online language teacher education programs (OLTE), looking at a range of issues which have informed their development and the challenges and opportunities in their implementation from a TESOL perspective. Positioning itself uniquely amongst the ...
Aspects of Language Development in an Intensive English Program
1st Edition
By Alan Juffs
December 13, 2021
While there is much in the literature on ESL development, this book is the first of its kind to track the development of specific language abilities in an Intensive English Program (IEP) longitudinally and highlights the implications of this particular study’s findings for future IEP implementation...
Referring in a Second Language: Studies on Reference to Person in a Multilingual World
1st Edition
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By Jonathon Ryan, Peter Crosthwaite
December 13, 2021
The introduction and tracking of reference to people or individuals, known as referential movement, is a central feature of coherence, and accounts for “about every third word of discourse”. Located at the intersection of pragmatics and grammar, reference is now proving a rich and enduring source ...
First Language Influences on Multilingual Lexicons
1st Edition
By Paul Booth, Jon Clenton
September 30, 2021
This collection brings together recent research on the influences between first and additional languages with a focus on the development of multilingual lexicons. Featuring work from an international group of scholars, the volume examines the complex dynamics underpinning vocabulary in second and ...
Cantonese as a Second Language: Issues, Experiences and Suggestions for Teaching and Learning
1st Edition
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By John C. Wakefield
June 30, 2021
Cantonese is a language from southern China that is spoken by roughly 70 million people worldwide. It is the language of Hong Kong cinema and has traditionally been the most prominent language spoken in Chinatowns around the world. People choose to learn Cantonese for a variety of social and ...
Defining and Assessing Lexical Proficiency
1st Edition
By Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska
June 30, 2021
This comprehensive account of performance-based assessment of L2 lexical proficiency analyzes and compares two of the primary methods of evaluation used in the field and unpacks the ways in which they tap into different dimensions of one model of lexical competence and proficiency.This book builds ...
Global Perspectives on Project-Based Language Learning, Teaching, and Assessment: Key Approaches, Technology Tools, and Frameworks
1st Edition
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By Gulbahar Beckett, Tammy Slater
June 30, 2021
This volume provides a comprehensive account of project-based language learning (PBLL) which showcases key theoretical approaches, empirical research, technological tools, and research-based frameworks to help further PBLL implementation and research. Taking its cue from the conclusions drawn from ...
Project-Based Language Learning with Technology: Learner Collaboration in an EFL Classroom in Japan
1st Edition
By Michael Thomas
June 30, 2021
This book highlights the ways in which insights from technology-mediated project-based language learning research can contribute to our understanding of both learner interaction in specific cultural contexts but also of the role of technology in language learning more generally. The volume situates...