1st Edition
Handbook of Practical Second Language Teaching and Learning
This authoritative volume is a practical, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research on second and foreign language teaching and learning.
Thorough and reader-friendly, the Handbook is organized logically into six parts that address all major areas of L2/FL teaching and learning:
- Part I: Learning Contexts and Language Teaching covers the diverse populations of language learners, their needs, and the challenges they face
- Part II: Curriculum and Instruction addresses curriculum and materials design, and includes exemplars of instructional approaches with wide applicability across contexts
- Part III: Listening and Speaking overviews listening pedagogy, speaking skills, and pronunciation, among other key topics
- Part IV: Reading and Writing includes chapters on all practical matters related to learning to write in another language, with attention to spelling, orthography, extensive reading, and more
- Part V: Vocabulary and Grammar discusses assumptions and practical approaches on vocabulary and grammar instruction, with attention to important topics such as academic writing and multiword expressions
- Part VI: Intercultural Communication and Pragmatics concludes the Handbook with an examination of language learning across social, cultural, and regional differences
Bringing together leading experts in the field, the contributors offer important perspectives on major, established, and emerging topics. Each chapter overviews important developments, key research, and considerations and applications for effective second language instruction. A well-rounded, readable, and up-to-date resource, the Handbook is a compendium of the ongoing changes, innovations, and practices in L2/FL teaching and learning. It is an essential resource for students, teachers, faculty, and professionals.
Preface
Eli Hinkel
Part I. Learning Contexts and Language Teaching
Chapter 1. The Changing Landscape of English Language Teaching and Learning
David Nunan
Chapter 2. Second Language Literacy: Kindergarten to Grade 12
Reginald Arthur D’Silva and Lee Gunderson
Chapter 3. Teaching L2 Academic Language in K-12: A Contextual and Developmental
Perspective
Maria Estela Brisk
Chapter 4. English for Academic Purposes
Christine M. Tardy
Chapter 5. English for Specific Purposes: Classroom Needs Analysis
James Dean Brown
Chapter 6. Teaching English to Young Learners
Sue Garton and Serdar Tekin
Chapter 7. English as a Lingua Franca
Andy Kirkpatrick and Iris Schaller-Schwaner
Part II. Curriculum and Instruction
Chapter 8. Curriculum in Language Teaching
Kathleen Graves
Chapter 9. Materials Development for Language Learning: Ways of Connecting Practice and Theory in Coursebook Development and Use
Brian Tomlinson
Chapter 10. Content-Based Instruction: Innovations and Challenges
Marguerite Ann Snow
Chapter 11. Corpus Uses in Language Teaching
Eric Friginal and Ashleigh Cox
Chapter 12. Computer Assisted Language Learning
Greg Kessler
Chapter 13. Digital Literacies and Language Learning
Rodney H. Jones
Chapter 14. Teaching Online: Design for Engagement
Maggie Sokolik
Chapter 15. Professional Learning through Professional Development for Second
Language Teachers
MaryAnn Christison and Denise E. Murray
Part III. Listening and Speaking
Chapter 16. Teaching Listening: Dichotomies, Choices, and Practices
Anne Burns and Joseph Siegel
Chapter 17. Second Language Listening
Michael Rost and Steven Brown
Chapter 18. Teaching Speaking to Language Learners in the 21st Century
MaryAnn Christison
Chapter 19. Teaching Speaking in L2 Contexts
Willy A. Renandya and Minh Thi Thuy Nguyen
Chapter 20. Effective Pronunciation Teaching
Donna M. Brinton
Chapter 21. Pronunciation and Technology
John M. Levis and Ivana Rehman
Part IV. Reading and Writing
Chapter 22. Teaching and Learning English Spelling
Adam Brown
Chapter 23. L2 Writing: Toward a Theory-Practice Praxis
Lawrence Jun Zhang
Chapter 24. Feedback on L2 Student Writing: Current Trends and Future Directions
Dana R. Ferris
Chapter 25. Principles for Reading Instruction
William Grabe and Fredricka L. Stoller
Chapter 26. Building a Convergent Model of the Interlanguage Reading System
Barbara Birch
Chapter 27. Extensive Reading
Rob Waring
Part V. Vocabulary and Grammar
Chapter 28. Teaching and Learning Vocabulary
Paul Nation
Chapter 29. Re-Examining Some Conventional Assumptions in Vocabulary Teaching:
What Can We Learn from the Research?
Penny Ur
Chapter 30. Taking a Practical Approach to Academic Vocabulary in Second Language Teaching and Learning
Averil Coxhead and Thi My Hang Nguyen
Chapter 31. Teaching and Learning Multiword Expressions
Eli Hinkel
Chapter 32. Teaching Grammar for a Purpose in Academic Writing
Jan Frodesen
Chapter 33. The Grammar Choices that Matter in Academic Writing
Nigel A. Caplan
Part VI. Intercultural Communication and Pragmatics
Chapter 34. Principles of Teaching Intercultural Communication in TESOL
Lixian Jin and Martin Cortazzi
Chapter 35. Teaching and Learning Pragmatics
Naoko Taguchi
Biography
Eli Hinkel is Professor of Linguistics and MA-TESL Programs at Seattle Pacific University, USA.
