Books in the Routledge Research in Language Education series

This book examines the complexities of multiple discourses embedded in language teaching materials, addressing such issues as "legitimate knowledge", the politics of learning materials, global cultural awareness, competing ideologies, etc.

This volume explores five themes of teacher identity work: narratives and writing; multimodal spaces; race, ethnicity, and language; teacher emotions; and teacher educator-researcher practices, presenting quality research for those furthering their knowledge of concepts grounding language teacher identity.

This edited book comprises chapters integrated around a central theme on college-educated Japanese, Korean and Chinese women's orientation to English study.

This book systematically explores and discusses English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research methods frequently deployed by ELF researchers in analysing their data. It covers three different approaches: corpus-based, both written and spoken, conversation analytic and narrative approaches.

English education programs are frequently reformed to reflect need for proficieny. In response to these changes, educational contexts worldwide have implemented English education with uniquely different goals, motivations, features and pedagogies. While most research has focused on macro level language policy and planning, there is a growing interest in micro planning, especially teachers¿ agency in policy response. Teachers' capacity to act and shape their responses to educational reforms and practices is a quality developed through knowledge and experience. This book examines the agency of the teacher in negotiating educational reforms and policy changes at the local and national levels.

This volume discusses the significance of learning and teaching of second language (L2) pragmatics in language education for learners who use English as a lingua franca for academic and intercultural communication purposes, focusing on pragmatic actions, social behaviours, perceptions and awareness levels in China, Japan and South Korea.

Shadowing, an active and highly cognitive language learning technique in which learners a little-known but effective linguistic learning technique in which subjects track heard speech and vocalise it simultaneously, is often misunderstood and resultant inappropriate use renders it ineffective. This book debunks the myths about Shadowing and cements it as a separate technique by providing theoretical and practical instructions on its use. As an effective method to improve learners' bottom-up listening skills, this book will certainly prove useful to English Foreign Language learners and instructors in their linguistic pursuits.

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.

TESOL Teacher Education in a Transnational World critically examines theories and practices in contemporary TESOL teacher education to shed new light on the intersection of transnationalism and language teacher education.

Originally published as a special issue of the journal Theory into Practice, this text examines innovative practices and research relating to Dual Language Education (DLE) in the US.

This book presents the latest research on understanding language teacher identity and development for both novice and experienced researchers and educators; it also introduces graduate students to key teacher identity research findings.

This book ignites renewed discussion on the importance of linking the key concepts of collaboration and innovation in language education. The pivotal difference highlighted in this volume is the concept of team learning through collaborative relationships such as team teaching. It explores the ways that team learning happens in ELT environments and out of these explorations, a more robust concept of team learning will emerge.

The teaching of English in the Asian context is always challenging and dynamic because both teachers and learners have diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Equally important, where English is not widely used outside the classroom, English language classrooms are an authentic site of learner engagement. For these reasons, for all those concerned with contemporary English language teaching (ELT) in Asia, Asian English Language Classrooms: Where Theory and Practice Meet, provides an account of theoretical orientations and practices in the teaching of English to multilingual speakers whose primary language is not English. While covering the fundamental ELT areas (e.g., the teaching of language skills, educational literature, the use of technology in ELT, the role of pragmatics in ELT, social psychology of the language classroom, and language classroom management) with which every language teacher and teacher trainer must be concerned, this volume showcases how particular orientations shape ELT practices. We believe that practicing English teachers must have a heightened awareness of the theory behind their practice. At the same time, the theoretical stance must be firmly anchored in actual classrooms. Containing newly commissioned chapters written by well-regarded and emerging scholars, this book will appeal not only to beginning teachers or teachers in training but also to established teachers around Asia where English is used as a lingua franca. If you are a student teacher of English or an English teacher who would like to see what other progressive teachers like you are doing across Asia, this is the book you have been looking for.

This book proposes Meaning-order Approach to Pedagogical Grammar (MAP Grammar) as a practical pedagogical approach in ESL and EFL contexts. By focusing on the order of meaning in a sentence, MAP Grammar distills current descriptive sentence structures into one meaning-based sentence structure for teaching and learning.

This book explores theories of space and place in relation to autonomy in language learning. Encompassing a wide range of linguistically and culturally diverse learning contexts, this edited collection brings together research papers from academics working in fourteen countries.

English is increasingly used as a lingua franca (ELF) in communicative situations the world over with the acceleration of globalisation. This volume focuses uniquely on English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education from an ELF perspective.

The culmination of more than a decade of research, this compelling volume offers a fresh approach for applying functional linguistics to assess student performance, to inform the teaching and learning of Chinese and to design curriculum and teaching materials.

This book describes a theory-guided approach to Foreign Language (FL) course development, implementation, instruction and assessment.