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Exploring English Language Teaching

By Graham Hall

Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those entering postgraduate studies and language professionals returning to academic study. The books take an innovative `practice to theory' approach, with a `back-to-front' structure. This leads the reader...

Race and Ethnicity in English Language Teaching: Korea in Focus

By Christopher Joseph Jenks

This book examines racism and racialized discourses in the ELT profession in South Korea. The book argues that language teaching and learning is shaped by White normativity, an ideological commitment and a form of racialized discourse that comes from the social actions of those involved in the ELT profession.

Unlock Basic Skills Teacher's Book with Downloadable Audio a

By Sabina Ostrowska

Unlock is a five-level academic skills course that combines carefully scaffolded exercises, a comprehensive approach to critical thinking and motivating video.

Discourse Analysis

By Hansun Zhang Waring

Discourse Analysis: The Questions Discourse Analysts Ask and How They Answer Them is the first introductory text organized around the kinds of questions discourse analysts ask and how they are systematically addressed by analysts of different empirical persuasions, thereby cultivating a principled understanding of the interdisciplinary field of discourse analysis....

English Language Teaching in South America

Faces of English Education

Faces of English Education provides an accessible, wide-ranging introduction to current perspectives on English language education, covering new areas of interest and recent studies in the field. In seventeen specially commissioned chapters written by international experts and practitioners, this book: * offers an authoritative discussion of theoretical issues and debates...

English and its Teachers

By Simon Gibbons

English and Its Teachers offers a historical overview of the development of secondary English teaching in schools over the past 50 years. Initially charting the rise of a new progressive approach in the 1960s, the book then considers the implications for the subject and its teachers of three decades of...

Corrective Feedback in Second Language Teaching and Learning

Bringing together current research, analysis, and discussion of the role of corrective feedback in second language teaching and learning, this volume bridges the gap between research and pedagogy by identifying principles of effective feedback strategies and how to use them successfully in classroom instruction. By synthesizing recent works on a...

Mapping Applied Linguistics

By Patrick H. Smith

Mapping Applied Linguistics: A guide for students and practitioners, second edition, provides a newly updated, wide-ranging introduction to the full scope of applied linguistics. This innovative book maps the diverse and constantly expanding range of theories, methods and issues faced by students and practitioners around the world, integrating both sociocultural...

Curriculum Development in Language Teaching

By Jack C. Richards

A new edition of a successful title, which has been fully revised and updated to reflect contemporary issues in curriculum.