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ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

Series Editor: Eli Hinkel

This series provides essential texts on teaching English as a second language and applied linguistics. It includes authored and edited volumes to be used as primary or supplementary texts in graduate-level and teacher training courses to enhance students’ and practicing teachers’ professional qualifications and knowledge. Each text is designed to promote the current and growing body of knowledge in applied linguistics and second language teaching, including advances in teacher education and the study of language.

Specifically, the series includes, but is not limited to, current uses of applied linguistics research in teaching a variety of second language skills, such as reading, writing, speaking and listening; materials and curriculum design; literacy; English for academic purposes; and research methods.

The texts also deal with broad domains of professional preparation related to socio-cultural perspectives and current issues/topics in teaching and learning a second language.

Books in the series benefit not only students, but experienced teachers, curriculum developers, teacher trainers, program administrators, and other second and foreign language professionals seeking to advance and update their knowledge and expertise.

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1-10 of 45 results in ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

  1. Ambiguities and Tensions in English Language Teaching

    Portraits of EFL Teachers as Legitimate Speakers

    By Peter Sayer

    Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

    The central theme of this book is the ambiguities and tensions teachers face as they attempt to position themselves in ways that legitimize them as language teachers, and as English speakers. Focusing on three EFL teachers and their schools in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, it...

    Published May 22nd 2012 by Routledge

  2. Principles and Practices for Teaching English as an International Language

    Edited by Lubna Alsagoff, Sandra Lee Mckay, Guangwei Hu, Willy A. Renandya

    Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

    What general principles should inform a socioculturally sensitive pedagogy for teaching English as an International Language and what practices would be consistent with these principles? This text explores the pedagogical implications of the continuing spread of English and its role as an...

    Published March 18th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Sociocultural Theory and the Pedagogical Imperative in L2 Education

    Vygotskian Praxis to Eliminate the Research/ Practice Divide

    By James P Lantolf, Matthew E Poehner

    Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

    From its inception in the early 1970s the field of second language acquisition has struggled to overcome the dichotomy between theory/research on the one hand and classroom practice on the other. Rejecting the dichotomy between theory and practice that dominates SLA and language teaching, this book...

    Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Language Teacher Education for a Global Society

    A Modular Model for Knowing, Analyzing, Recognizing, Doing, and Seeing

    By B. Kumaravadivelu

    Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

    The field of second/foreign language teacher education is calling out for a coherent and comprehensive framework for teacher preparation in these times of accelerating economic, cultural, and educational globalization. Responding to this call, this book introduces a state-of-the-art model for...

    Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge

  5. Teaching and Learning Second Language Listening

    Metacognition in Action

    By Larry Vandergrift, Christine C.M. Goh

    Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

    This reader-friendly text, firmly grounded in listening theories and supported by recent research findings, offers a comprehensive treatment of concepts and knowledge related to teaching second language (L2) listening, with a particular emphasis on metacognition. The metacognitive approach, aimed...

    Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge

  6. Pragmatics for Language Educators

    A Sociolinguistic Perspective

    By Virginia LoCastro

    Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

    Making pragmatics accessible to a wide range of students and instructors without dumbing down the content of the field, this text for language professionals: raises awareness and increases knowledge and understanding of how human beings use language in real situations to engage in social action...

    Published August 28th 2011 by Routledge

  7. Intelligibility in World Englishes

    Theory and Application

    By Cecil L. Nelson

    Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

    Intelligibility is the term most generally used to address the complex of criteria that describe, broadly, how useful someone’s English is when talking or writing to someone else. Set within the paradigm of world Englishes – which posits that the Englishes of the world may be seen as flexibly...

    Published May 1st 2011 by Routledge

  8. Case Studies in Language Curriculum Design

    Concepts and Approaches in Action Around the World

    Edited by John Macalister, I.S.P. Nation

    Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

    Case studies are a powerful pedagogical tool for illuminating constructs and models in real-life contexts. Covering a wide range of teaching-learning contexts and offering in-depth analyses of ESL/ELT language curriculum design issues, this casebook is distinctive and unique in that each case draws...

    Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge

  9. Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning

    Volume 2

    Edited by Eli Hinkel

    Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

    This landmark volume provides a broad-based, comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research into second language teaching and learning. All authors are leading authorities in their areas of expertise. The chapters, all completely new for Volume 2, are organized in eight...

    Published January 17th 2011 by Routledge

  10. Research on Second Language Teacher Education

    A Sociocultural Perspective on Professional Development

    Edited by Karen E. Johnson, Paula R. Golombek

    Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

    Embracing a sociocultural perspective on human cognition and employing an array of methodological tools for data collection and analysis, this volume documents the complexities of second language teachers’ professional development in diverse L2 teacher education programs around the world, including...

    Published November 23rd 2010 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Principles and Practices for Response in Second Language Writing: Developing Self-Regulated Learners
    By Maureen Snow Andrade, Norman W. Evans
    To Be Published October 31st 2012
  2. English Grammar Pedagogy: Global Perspectives
    By Barbara M. Birch
    To Be Published February 28th 2013
  3. Effective Curriculum for Teaching ESL Writing and Language Building
    By Eli Hinkel
    To Be Published March 14th 2013

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