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Language learning motivation in japan
This book synthesises current theory and research on L2 motivation in the EFL Japanese context covering topics such as the issues of cultural identity, demotivation, language communities, positive psychology, possible L2 selves and internationalisation within a key EFL context.
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Teachers as mediators in the foreign language classroom
This book uses examples of classroom interaction to reveal how teachers of languages act as intercultural mediators and the implications of this for practice. The book offers an account of what teachers are thinking, feeling and doing as they enact an intercultural perspective on language teachin...
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Willingness to communicate, multilingualism and interactions in community contexts
This book examines the communication behaviours of individuals in multilingual community contexts. Using a complexity lens and the presentation of a revised 3D pyramid model, the authors demonstrate the dynamic nature of willingness to communicate over time and shed new light on processes that af...
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Sociocultural theory in second language education
This textbook introduces the reader to concepts of sociocultural theory, through a series of narratives illuminating key concepts of the theory. This 2nd edition references recent studies that provide important instances of Vygotskian sociocultural theory in second language education and research...
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Multiple perspectives on the self in sla
This collection of papers brings together a diverse range of conceptualisations of the self in the domain of second language acquisition and foreign language learning. The volume attempts to unite a fragmented field and provides a thorough overview of the ways in which the self can be conceptuali...
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Going performative in intercultural education
Contributors from various contexts explore the extent to which performative approaches, emphasising the role of the body as a learning medium, can achieve deep intercultural learning and create rich opportunities for intercultural encounters that transport students beyond the parameters of conven...
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Child language disability vol.2
Rising recognition of semantic and pragmatic disabilities in children with specific language impairment has created a demand for a satisfactory framework and suitable methods for assessment and remediation. This book reports on progress in research and practice in a form accessible to professiona...
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Motivation, autonomy and emotions in foreign language learning
This book highlights the roles of individual difference variables on the language learning process, exploring them from both the students’ and the teachers’ perspectives. The comparative analysis of these two datasets yields interactional results that have the potential to shape classroom learnin...
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Contemporary language motivation theory
This book unites chapters from the leaders of the language learning motivation field and demonstrates how Gardner’s work is integral to a wide range of contemporary theoretical issues underlying the psychology of language. It deals with cutting-edge topics, providing a wealth of information for b...
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Investigating tasks in formal language learning
This book brings together research that makes use of tasks to examine oral interaction, written production, vocabulary and reading, lexical innovation and pragmatics in different formal language learning contexts and in different languages (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish).
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Demotivation in second language acquisition
This book, focused exclusively on demotivation, helps readers understand motivational issues in language learning from a new perspective. It presents research situated in Japanese English-teaching contexts and serves as a base for anyone wishing to better understand the causes of demotivation in ...
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An intercultural approach to english language teaching
This is a thoroughly revised, updated and expanded edition of a practical introduction to intercultural education for teachers of English as a second language. This new edition addresses developments in the field since the publication of the 1st edition, including the impact of online resources f...
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Third age learners of foreign languages
This book brings together research on language learning among aging populations. Contributors discuss the issue from various psychological, neurological and pedagogical perspectives, challenge certain familiar preconceptions about older learners and offer the reader ideas for future research in t...
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Creating classroom communities of learning
This book brings together nine case studies of teachers and young learners worldwide. In each setting, classroom interaction is interpreted to illustrate how teachers and their students verbally co-construct culturally appropriate learning attitudes and behaviours.
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Speaking and instructed foreign language acquisition
This book investigates various aspects of speaking in a foreign language. It is unique in considering this key skill from both psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives, and in focusing entirely on instructed foreign language contexts. The book demonstrates how theory and research can be ...
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Learning english at school
This revised edition discusses how insights from new materialism and posthumanism might be used in investigating second language learning and teaching in classrooms. With these new perspectives in mind, it updates the application of sociocultural theory to understanding how minority language back...
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Language learner autonomy
This book combines detailed accounts of classroom practice with empirical and case-study research and a wide-ranging engagement with applied linguistic and pedagogical theory. Points for discussion encourage readers to relate the argument of each chapter to their own context, and the book conclud...
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English language teachers on the discursive faultlines
This book brings the voices of teachers into the debates about language ideologies and cultural pedagogies in English language teaching. Through interviews and classroom observations in Chile and California, this study compares the controversies around English as a global language with the simila...
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Language teacher identities
This book explores the development of the first cohort of students to complete a new Bachelor of Education in English language teaching in the United Arab Emirates, theorizing the students’ learning to teach in terms of the discursive construction of a teaching identity within an evolving communi...
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Creative writing and education
This book explores creative writing and its various relationships to education through a number of short, evocative chapters written by key players in the field. At times controversial, the book presents issues, ideas and pedagogic practices related to creative writing in and around education, wi...
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Measuring second language vocabulary acquisition
Measuring Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition describes the effect that word frequency and lexical coverage have on learning and communication in a foreign language. It examines the tools we have for assessing the various facets of vocabulary knowledge, the scores these produce, and the way th...
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Social justice in language education
This book brings together authors from diverse geographical and professional contexts united by a common goal: to discuss social justice in language teacher education and language classrooms. The chapters take the reader on a journey from conceptual dilemmas, through specific critical issues, to ...
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Lessons from exceptional language learners who have achieved nativelike proficiency
This book opens a narrative window into the experiences of learners who achieve nativelike proficiency and offers insights into their pathways to success. Tying together themes of motivation, cognition and identity, the authors explore how these learners became so successful and whether their suc...
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Multilingual teaching
This book lays out a radical new approach for teaching in multilingual classrooms: to include everyone, including those who already speak the school language, in multilingual pedagogy. The author proposes Linguistically Appropriate Practice Plus, a new resource to help teachers support the langua...
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Early language learning
This book investigates language learning by young learners in instructed contexts and the potential for mixed methods to allow for a comprehensive understanding of early language learning. Chapters present recent studies undertaken in numerous countries and contexts and examine the complexity of ...
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The pragmatics of intercultural communicative competence
This book presents a pragmatic perspective on the development of intercultural communicative competence by language learners in the foreign language classroom and in study abroad contexts. The book concludes with a reflection on what it means to be an intercultural speaker and the benefits for th...
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L2 grammatical representation and processing
This book presents an array of new research on several current theoretical debates in the field of SLA. The studies address questions relating to ultimate attainment, first language transfer, universal properties of SLA, processing and second language (L2) grammar, and explore a number of grammat...
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Key developments in bilingual education and bilingualism
This book celebrates 30 years of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, collating seminal contributions from the series. It explores research developments within child bilingualism, multilingual classrooms, immersion education and language policy, offering an essential overview for early career re...
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Native-speakerism in japan
The relative status of native and non-native speaker language teachers within educational institutions has long been an issue worldwide but until recently, the voices of teachers articulating their own concerns have been rare. This innovative volume explores language-based forms of prejudice agai...
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Discontinuity in second language acquisition
With a focus on the morphosyntactic features of second language, this book discusses the idea that language acquisition is a discontinuous and 'quantized' process due to the existence of two different – albeit interconnected – ways of learning: Statistical Learning and Grammatical Learning.
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Language planning and student experiences
Presenting data from a five year ethnographic study combined with a 40 year span of policy analysis, this volume is a rare book length treatment of the chasm between imagined policy and its experienced delivery, and will provide insights that policymakers around the world can draw on.
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Teaching children online
What does best practice in online education look like? How can educators make use of the affordances offered by online environments to bring out the best in the children they teach? These questions are answered in this new textbook, written with experienced teachers, novice educators and teacher ...
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The strategy factor in successful language learning
This book addresses fundamental questions regarding the relationships between successful language learning and strategy use and development, according to learner, situational or target variables. This new edition includes an analysis of recent literature, an update on the theoretical debate and a...
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English for academic purposes
This book provides readers with a critical and comprehensive overview of the historical development and ongoing trajectory of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). It examines a wide range of crucial topics in EAP, concluding with a glimpse into the future as the author considers the threats posed...
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The impact of self-concept on language learning
This book shows the effects of self-concept on L2 learning and teaching. It includes chapters discussing approaches related to self-concept; empirical studies related to the selves of learners; research from the teachers' perspective on students' self-concept and L2 motivational intervention stud...
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Exploring the us language flagship program
The Language Flagship program provides opportunities for US undergraduate students in any specialization to reach a professional level of competence in a targeted second language by graduation. This volume highlights innovative practices that enable students to achieve this goal and explores the ...
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Equity in multilingual schools and communities
This book honors the impactful contributions of Guadalupe Valdés, focusing on three major areas of her work: languages and literacies in multilingual contexts, language development in schools and communities, and equity and access. Personal interludes from former students and colleagues add insig...
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Motivation to learn multiple languages in japan
This longitudinal study of motivation in extremely successful learners of English and languages other than English provides unique insights into long-term language learning motivation. It reveals the various factors that sustain multiple language learning and stretches our understanding of motiva...
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Language teachers, politics and cultures
This book explores the issues faced by foreign language teachers which are caused by the social and political changes of the contemporary world. The authors make recommendations as to how language teachers should face their social and political responsibilities in the education of young people in...
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Language curriculum design and socialisation
This book fills a gap in language education through the application of social theory to curriculum design. It describes an integrated theoretical framework for curriculum design and presents examples of text-based curriculum. It provides a curriculum model for teaching children and adults in diff...
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Preparing teachers to teach english as an international language
This book explores ways to prepare teachers to teach English as an International Language, and provides theoretically-grounded models for EIL-informed teacher education. It includes two chapters that present a theoretical approach to EIL teacher education, followed by descriptions of field-tested...
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Early learning and teaching of english
This book offers an insight into the dynamics and complexities of learning and teaching English as a foreign language at primary level.It presents the findings of longitudinal research undertaken in Croatia and discusses their contribution to understanding EFL development in the young learner and...
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What teachers need to know about language
This book shows what teachers need to know about language to work effectively with diverse students. It gives examples of the many aspects of teaching and learning in which language is a key, and it suggests how teacher education programs can help teachers gain the knowledge and skills they need ...
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Learning foreign languages in primary school
This book presents research on the learning of foreign languages by children in primary school settings. It covers issues that have been under-researched within this group of learners such as implicit/explicit learning, interaction, feedback provision, first language use, metalinguistic awareness...
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Managing diversity in education
Diversity (social, cultural, linguistic and ethnic) poses a challenge to educational systems. This book examines policy and its implications, pedagogical practice and responses to the challenge of diversity that go beyond the language of schooling. This volume will appeal to anyone involved in th...
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Colonial temporality and writing education
This book examines colonial temporality and English writing education by analysing higher educational policies operating in China and Saudi Arabia. It explores the ways temporality shapes the wellbeing and practices of individual writing teachers and the ways they understand, resist and appropria...
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Teaching and learning language and culture
This book discusses the idea that cultural learning is an integral part of foreign language learning and offers a practical introduction to the issues by describing classroom practice, curriculum innovation and experimental courses. It also covers principles of methodology and problems in assessi...
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Teaching eal
This book offers an evidence-based guide to EAL for everyone who works with multilingual learners. It offers a concise introduction to the latest research underpinning three key areas of EAL practice: How children acquire additional languages How language works across the curriculum How you can...
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Early learning of modern foreign languages
Modern languages are taught to young learners at an increasingly early age, yet few studies focus on what is available to children in different contexts and classrooms. This book examines current research on young language learners and provides key insights into how young learners progress.
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The languages of nation
This book explores research on linguistic prescriptivism and social identities, in contemporary and historical contexts of cross-cultural contact and awareness. Providing multilingual and multidisciplinary perspectives on both institutional and informal mechanisms of prescriptivism, our contribut...
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Spanish so white
Written specifically for secondary and post-secondary teachers who identify as White, second language learners of Spanish, Spanish So White will support the development of language education that centers a racially dynamic Spanish-speaking world and challenges interpersonal and institutional form...
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Second language creative writers
This book elicits L2 creative writers’ own perspectives of their life histories through the form of interviews and think-aloud story writing sessions, and investigates the writers’ emerging writing processes. It integrates socioculturalist L2 identity studies with the typically cognitivist proces...
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Understanding language use in the classroom
A proper understanding of academic English and how to use it is crucial for success in college, and yet students face multiple obstacles in acquiring this new 'code'. In this expanded edition, PowerPoint presentations and instructor materials are included to help educators engage students in this...
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Using tasks in second language teaching
This book examines the use of tasks in second language instruction in a variety of international contexts, and addresses the need for a better understanding of how tasks are used in teaching and program-level decision-making. The chapters consider the benefits and challenges that teachers, progra...
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Fictional linguistic landscapes
This book explores how fan practices, such as fan art and fan fiction, and linguistic landscapes – the language surrounding us in everyday contexts – can be integrated into foreign language teaching. The book represents a step forward in EFL and TESOL pedagogy, making language learning relevant t...
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Measuring second language pragmatic competence
Extending earlier work on grammar, this book investigates the development of tests measuring second language learners’ implicit and explicit pragmatic abilities in English. It reports detailed analyses of the use of the tests with two groups of learners and in studies investigating study abroad a...
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Lau v. nichols and chinese american language rights
This book employs a narrative policy portraiture approach to recenter the stories of those involved in the Lau v. Nichols court case. It brings Chinese and Chinese American voices to the forefront, filling a significant gap in narration, representation and retrospective research within language p...
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New perspectives on transfer in second language learning
This book provides a comprehensive and multidimensional examination of transfer in second language acquisition. It brings theoretical analyses together with work based on empirical observation. Chapters consider lexical, syntactic, phonological and cognitive perspectives on language transfer.
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Second language lexical processes
The book contains studies on L2 lexical processes based on empirical findings by authors mostly from Central Europe. Questions of integration, storage, vocabulary acquisition and assessment, word retrieval and lexical access are the focus of the studies, which include reference to language users ...
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Positive psychology in sla
This book explores theories in positive psychology and their implications for language teaching, learning and communication. Chapters examine the characteristics of individuals, contexts and relationships that facilitate learning and present several new teaching ideas to develop and support them.
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Developing writing competence in l2 chinese classrooms
This edited volume focuses on writing Chinese as a second language (L2). It provides readers with cutting-edge empirical research and insightful teaching methods and strategies for effectively developing L2 writing competence in L2 Chinese classroom contexts.
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Context and culture in language teaching and learning
The forces of globalisation and internationalisation influence the role and significance of language teaching and learning in classrooms. This affects the ways in which English is taught and learnt. This book explores the ways in which the contexts in which language teaching takes place impact on...
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Autonomy support beyond the language learning classroom
Through the application of self-determination theory (SDT) to research and practice, this book deepens our understanding of how autonomous language learning can be supported and understood outside of the classroom. The chapters deal with learning environments and open spaces, communities and rela...
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Trauma-informed applied linguistics
This book explores how applied linguistics can work more ethically and sympathetically through trauma-informed approaches. It considers the positionality of asylum seekers, the narrative construction of traumatic events, trauma-informed interviewing, interpreting and teaching, and the risk of vic...
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Early instructed second language acquisition
This book examines which factors lead to success in foreign language learning at an early age in instructional settings. The studies investigate learners aged between three and ten, their parents and teachers, and focus on the development of speaking and reading skills and how attitudes and motiv...
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Creative composition
This book brings together contemporary authors and well-respected creative writing instructors and theorists to explore ways creativity in composition may be encouraged in student writers. The question in this anthology is not ‘Can writing be taught?’ but ‘How can we inspire students to embrace t...
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Willingness to communicate in instructed second language acquisition
This book investigates individual differences variables as well as contextual factors that impinge on second language learners’ willingness to communicate (WTC). It combines a macro- and micro-perspective to bring the reader closer to understanding the mechanisms underlying WTC in specific contex...
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Black teachers of english(es) in japan
This book examines the trajectories of a transnational group of teachers of African descent who live and teach English in Japan. The author argues that while multiculturalism and diversity within ELT in Japan may seem to be gradually improving, raciolinguistic native-speakerism still affects the ...
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Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition
This volume adopts a psycholinguistic approach in the study of cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition and focuses on the role of previously acquired languages and the conditions that determine their influence.
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Teaching languages to students with specific learning differences
This book is intended to help language teachers to work effectively and successfully with students who have Specific Learning Differences (SpLDs). It enables teachers to gain a thorough understanding of the nature of SpLDs and how these affect both general learning processes and the mechanisms of...
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Portraits of second language learners
Using L2 socialization theory as a theoretical framework, this book investigates the ways in which four learners of Japanese exercise their agency to pursue their learning goals and documents how the diverse ways in which they do so form different trajectories of learning and create different exp...
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Directed motivational currents and language education
This book presents empirical research which investigates directed motivational currents (DMCs) in the context of second language learning and motivation. The studies explore participants’ individual experiences of DMCs, and the practical implications of DMC theory for L2 pedagogy through the use ...
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Learning english and chinese as foreign languages
This book compares English as a Foreign Language teaching in Taiwan with Chinese as a Foreign Language education in England and highlights how classroom activities are embedded within ethnic or social group cultures, family resources and school visions or goals, and it highlights the potential fo...
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Representations of the world in language textbooks
This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for the analysis of representations of culture, society and the world in textbooks for foreign and second language learning. It points to the need for language learning materials to deal seriously with knowledge about the world, including its d...
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English language teaching as a second career
This book explores the experiences of 30 men and women who train to teach ESL as a second career. It provides portraits of these individuals as they develop as teachers and launch their new careers. A welcome addition to the growing literature on teacher development, this book will be an importan...
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Translingual practices in english language education in south asia
This book presents research from South Asian contexts to explore the feasibility, acceptance and prospects of translingual practices in English language classrooms. It highlights the marginalisation sustained through English language education and persistent monolingual biases and suggests steps ...
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Promoting reflection on language learning
This book presents the collaborative efforts of a team of academics at a university in Japan to promote learner reflection. It includes studies, practical applications and reflective accounts, and demonstrates how reflection can be effectively integrated into language learning activities with sig...
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Psycholinguistic approaches to instructed second language acquisition
This book applies a psycholinguistic perspective to instructed second language acquisition, bridging the gap between research and teaching practices. It re-envisions the explicit and implicit learning divide as a continuum of consciousness, explores the pedagogical applications of SLA findings an...
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