Books in the Applied Linguistics and Language Study series

Task-based learning in teaching is where an activity has been designed to help achieve a particular learning goal. This volume brings together a series of studies by different researchers on the impact of tasks in second language teaching, testing and development.

Focusing on "English for Academic Purposes", this text demonstrates the scope, theoretical issues and pedagogical concerns of discourse analysis within academic contexts. The book discusses both written and spoken discourse and offers research methodologies with practical applications.

Brings together a comprehensive account and analysis of testing second language speaking. This title contains examples including task types that are commonly used in speaking tests, approaches to researching speaking tests, and specific methodologies that teachers, students and test developers may use in their own projects.

A text which looks at industrial language training and how it can be used to help inter-ethnic communication. It discusses the nature of cross-cultural training, provides examples and examines the workplace from an ethnographic and linguistic point of view.

Focusing on the testing and assessment of English as an international language, this book contains four main parts which cover theoretical considerations, reading tests, literacy assessment and policy implications.

The main topic of this revised and updated edition is the comprehension of the spoken language. Subjects covered include the function of intonation and paralinguistic features, while revisions made include a new section on `pause' and how this interacts with rhythm,

This volume examines the principles and practices involved in learner independence and autonomy in foreign language learning, particularly EFL.

This is a collection of 21 case accounts by language education professionals working in the context of international development. The contributors explore the implementation of interactive educational approaches in ten Asian countries.

An analysis of the current situation in the teaching of language, this text focuses on interaction and the concept of mutual teacher and pupil education. The use of learning through projects at various educational establishments is discussed.

This work looks at a variety of the aspects of applied linguistics, ranging from information processing versus inferencing based approaches, to listening-based language learning.

The author attempts to arrange the translation process and set it within a systemic model of language. The book is divided into three parts, namely model, meaning and memory, assessing how logical relationships are organized and mapped onto the syntactic systems of a language.

Recent research highlights the importance of an individual's own skills and attitudes to learning when studying a second language. A number of contributors explore the theory and practical application of such experiential learning.

An active area of study and debate in second language acquisition is "learner contribution" - what a learner can bring to the learning process. This text presents an account of learners' personal attributes - those that have been shown to have an impact upon language learning.

A survey and analysis of second language theory that discusses the development of ideas in this expanding area of language studies. It looks at the implications of these ideas and directions for future research. Contains study questions and activities as well as practical guidelines on the use of available research resources.

This text aims to synthesize the state of research with regard to the teaching and testing of reading in a second language. It examines the psychology of reading, models of the reading process and various theories, and discusses the development of reading tests and teaching practice.

The material in this book reviews work dating to the vocabulary control movement of the 1930s, and also refers to more recent work on the role of lexis in language learning. The main foundations of lexical semantics described, as are relevant research and pedagogical studies in vocabulary and lexicography.

Understanding how people learn and fail to learn second and foreign languages is increasingly recognised as a critical social and psycholinguistic issue. This book provides a synthesis of empirical findings on second and foreign language learning by children and adults, emphasising the design and execution of appropriate research.

This text explores the varieties of writing, different purposes for learning to write extended text, and cross-cultural variation among second language writers. The authors provide an overview of textlinguistics, the different approaches to writing, and propose a model for text construction within a more general theory of writing.

This text is a contribution to the theory of the language education curriculum. It explores key aspects of the current debate on language teaching and examines the important issues of the learning process, the central concepts of authenticity, motivation and language awareness.

Combining an overview of English phonology with structured practical guidance, this introductory text shows how phonology can be applied in the classroom.

The dynamics of immigration, international commerce and the postcolonial world make it inevitable that much translation is done into a second language. This study adopts an interlanguage framework to consider second language translation as the product of developing competence.

This text explores the application of corpora to language teaching, aiming to show teachers and students how to create materials using corpora and how to develop their own corpora.