Exploring English Language Teaching

Description

The first title in the new Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics series, featuring introductory textbooks covering the key topics in Applied Linguistics.

Exploring English Language Teaching provides a single volume introduction to the field of ELT from an applied linguistics perspective.

The ‘back to front’ structure of the book provides an opportunity to move from real-world problems and practices which readers will recognise from their own language teaching (and learning) experience to an exploration of how such issues link to and inform theoretical understandings. The book guides readers through relevant questions and issues related to classroom language learning and teaching in ELT with numerous tasks and activities throughout the text to support this. A glossary and a section further reading also feature in this accessible and easy to use book.

Exploring English Language Teaching is an essential textbook for language teachers, post-graduate/graduate students and advanced undergraduates studying in the areas of Applied Linguistics, Language Teacher Education, ELT/TESOL.

Contents

Theme 1: Classroom interaction and management

1.The Language Classroom: roles, relationships and interactions

2. Intervening in the language classroom: classroom management, interaction and learning opportunities

3. The language classroom in theory and practice: complex, diverse and ‘local’

Theme 2: Method, postmethod and methodology

4. Language, language learning and Method: dilemmas and practices

5. Language Teaching Methods: perspectives and possibilities

6. Theoretical insights for a Postmethod era

Theme 3: Learners

7. Focus on the language learner: individual attributes and attitudes

8. Learner diversity and development: considerations for the language classroom…and beyond

9. Images of language learners: from individual to social, and universal to specific

Theme 4: Institutional frameworks and social contexts

10. From global trends to local contexts: language dilemmas in the ELT classroom

11. Planning and organising L2 learning and teaching: contexts and curriculum, possibilities and realities

12. ELT in the world: education and politics, contexts and goals

Glossary

Author Bio

Graham Hall is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Northumbria University where he teaches on the university’s MA Applied Linguistics for TESOL, MA TESOL and BA English Language Studies, working with English language teachers from around the world. Graham previously taught English in Poland, Hungary and Saudi Arabia.

Related Subjects

1. Applied Linguistics
2. English Language