Bilingualism / ESL Books

New and Published Books

1. Language Teaching Through the Ages

   By Garon Wheeler

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Konrad Koerner, a leading historian of linguistics, has long said that an academic field cannot be considered to have matured until it has history as one of its subfields. The history of linguistics is a growing area, having come into its own in the 1960s, especially after Noam Chomsky looked for...

   Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners

   Instructional Strategies and Assessment Tools for School Psychologists

   By Holly S. Hudspath-Niemi, Mary Lou Conroy

   Series: School-Based Practice in Action

   There is considerable concern surrounding the complex issue of how to meet the learning needs of English-language learners within general and special education programs. Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners increases school psychologists’ knowledge...

   Published January 24th 2013 by Routledge
3. English Language Pedagogies for a Northeast Asian Context

   Developing and Contextually Framing the Transition Theory

   By Michael Hadzantonis

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This book investigates, from a sociocultural, linguistic, and pedagogical perspective, the conceptual and pragmatic frameworks that characterize secondary language learning in a Northeast Asian context. Hadzantonis contextualizes these salient domains through an engagement with social and cultural...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. Dialogue With Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning

   New Perspectives

   Edited by Joan Kelly Hall, Gergana Vitanova, Ludmila A. Marchenkova

   This volume is the first to explore links between the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical insights about language and practical concerns with second and foreign language learning and teaching. Situated within a strong conceptual framework and drawing from a rich empirical base, it...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Handbook of Orthography and Literacy

   Edited by R. Malatesha Joshi, P.G. Aaron

   Until about two decades ago, the study of writing systems and their relationship to literacy acquisition was sparse and generally modeled after studies of English language learners. This situation is now changing. As the worldwide demand for literacy continues to grow, researchers from different...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Chicano-Anglo Conversations

   Truth, Honesty, and Politeness

   By Madeleine Youmans

   Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

   This groundbreaking book--about differences in communication practices between Mexican-American underclass residents in an East Los Angeles housing project and white, middle-class literacy tutors who worked with them--makes an important contribution to research on the sociolinguistics of the...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Translingual Practice

   Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations

   By Suresh Canagarajah

   Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations introduces a new way of looking at the use of English within a global context. Challenging traditional approaches in second language acquisition and English language teaching, this book incorporates recent advances in multilingual...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners

   2nd Edition

   By Gladis Kersaint, Denisse R. Thompson, Mariana Petkova

   Series: Teaching English Language Learners across the Curriculum

   Today's mathematics classrooms increasingly include students for whom English is a second language. Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners provides readers a comprehensive understanding of both the challenges that face English language learners (ELLs) and ways in which educators might...

   Published November 26th 2012 by Routledge
9. Christian Faith and English Language Teaching and Learning

   Research on the Interrelationship of Religion and ELT

   Edited by Mary Shepard Wong, Carolyn Kristjansson, Zoltan Dornyei

   Ideological and educational-political aspects of the link between language and faith—especially between Global English and Christianity—is a topic of growing interest in the field of English language teaching. This book explores the possible role and impact of teachers’ and students’ faith in the...

   Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
10. Principles and Practices for Response in Second Language Writing

    Developing Self-Regulated Learners

    By Maureen Snow Andrade, Norman W. Evans

    Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

    Based on the assumptions that students expect feedback and want to improve, and that improvement is possible, this book introduces a framework that applies the theory of self-regulated learning to guide second language writing teachers’ response to learners at all stages of the writing process....

    Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge