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Learners who cannot decode alphabetic script have been left out of the SLA research enterprise, at considerable cost to our understanding of the human capacity for language learning. This book offers research evidence documenting the significant impact of low literacy skill on adolescents' processing of oral L2 input and acquisition. Together with a large...
Task-based Language Learning and Teaching explores the relationship between research, teaching and tasks and seeks to clarify the issues raised by recent work in this field. The book shows how research and task-based teaching can inform each other and illuminate the areas of task-based course design, methodology and testing. Shortlisted for the Ben...
Rod Ellis provides readers with a comprehensive review of this important area of applied linguistics. He does not take up a particular stance, but examines different theories of second language acquisition and the critical reactions to them. Winner BAAL Book Prize
This book presents SLA research as a source of specifications for teachers to explore in their own classrooms. The author sees the four main roles of SLA researchers as developing relevant theories, conducting their own classroom research, making research accessible to teachers, and facilitating action research. Each chapter addresses a major issue in the...
Based on a set of four research parameters, this book discusses the development of research questions and hypotheses, naturalistic and experimental research, data collection, and validation of research instruments. Each chapter includes examples and activities.
Integrates theory, research, and practice on the learning of second and foreign languages as informed by sociocultural and activity theory. It familiarizes students, teachers, and other researchers who do not work within the theory with its principal claims and constructs in particular as they relate to second language research. The book also describes...
Examines how formulaic language ('lexical chunks') is used in a variety of real-life situations. Presents a framework for examining the existence and function of formulaic language and tests it extensively against language data within a wide variety of language samples. Formulaic language is a fast-growing area of applied linguistic research, and the...
This study relates language testing practice to current views on communicative language teaching and testing. The text is divided into sections on the conceptual bases of language language tests language tests. Winner MLA Kenneth W Mildenberger Prize
A clear and authoritative discussion of the basic concerns which underline the development and use of language tests, anda synthesis of research on testing. Winner MLA Kenneth W Mildenberger Prize
From the perspective of the speakers themselves, this is the first book to explore attitudes towards ELF in general and ELF accents in particular, their effects on ELF speakers' identities, and ways in which the problems can be addressed in teacher education, English language testing, and ELT materials. Key featuresBased on extensive research conducted...
This book is about the worlds and conflicts of TESOL teachers and researchers whose professional lives are both enriched and problematized by the cultural and political interfaces created by working with an international language. Central to this discussion is the balance of power in classroom and curriculum settings, the relationship between language,...
Starting from the premise that each person develops a unique and personal code for communication, Christopher Brumfit examines the roles of teachers and learners and the approaches that education professionals should develop in support of learners.The book draws upon linguistic, psychological, philosophical, and sociolinguistic principles and uses...
This text advocates a new approach to pronunciation teaching goal is mutual intelligibility among non-native speakers imitating native speakers. It should be of interest to all teachers of English as an international language Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize Highly Commended English-Speaking Union's Duke of Edinburgh Book Competition Shortlisted...
This study explores the contemporary phenomenon of English as an international language has become so dominant. It examines the historical spread of the language it transmits. Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize
As the English language continues to spread globally resource for English teachers and applied linguists wishing to understand the ideological challenges behind teaching English in the periphery. Winner MLA Mina P Shaugnessy Prize Shortlisted for the BAAL Book prize
This book goes back to basics by investigating fundamental assumptions about the way English should be defined and taught as a school subject. It looks at different attitudes to English, and developments in its description, and it critically examines current proposals for the specification of course content and classroom methodology, with particular...