2nd Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Language Awareness

Edited By Peter Garrett, Josep M. Cots Copyright 2027
574 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Language Awareness provides an informative overview of the broad field of language awareness. It contains a collection of state-of-the-art reviews of both established themes and new directions, authored and edited by experts in the field. This second edition has been substantially revised and updated to include coverage of CLA and CLMA (Critical Language Awareness and... Read more

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

1.      Language Awareness: Opening up the Field of Study

Josep M. Cots and Peter Garrett

Part One. Focus on Language Teaching and Teachers

2.      The Relationship between Language Teachers’ Beliefs and Classroom Practices

Simon Borg

3.      Language Awareness and Teacher Development

Stephen Andrews, Angel M. Y. Lin and Peichang (Emily) He

4.      Language Awareness, Language Diversity and Migrant Languages in the Primary School

Andrea S. Young

5.      Language Awareness and the Education of Deaf Children

Jackie Salter and Ruth Swanwick

6.      Form-Focused Instruction

Leila Ranta, Roy Lyster and Majid Nikouee

7.      Language Awareness in Listening and Speaking: Structural, Critical and Metacognitive Dimensions

Christine C. M. Goh and Cherise Shi Ling Teo

8.      Language Awareness in the Teaching of Reading and Writing

Claudia Finkbeiner and Jennifer Schluer

9.      Literature, Creativity and Language Awareness

Geoff Hall and Derek Irwin

10.  Teaching Critical Literacy and Language Awareness

Catherine Wallace

11.  A Decade of Dialogue: Revisiting English-Medium Education and Language Awareness

Emma Dafouz

12.  Rethinking English Language Teacher Education: Empowering Teachers with ELF Awareness

Enric Llurda, Yasemin Bayyurt and Nicos Sifakis

13.  Critical Multilingual Language Awareness

Koen van Gorp and Peter I. de Costa

Part Two. Focus on Language Learning and Learners

14.  Research on L2 Learner Beliefs: Looking Back and Looking Forward in Time

Paula Kalaja, Ana Maria F. Barcelos and Mari Aro

15.  Engagement with Language

Agneta M-L Svalberg

16.  Is it NBD or are Language Awareness and Social Media Crucial for Language Education?

Melinda Dooly and Margarita Vinagre 

17.  Critical Language Awareness and Critical Digital Literacies

Ron Darvin and Kyu Yun Lim

18.  Language Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

Ulrike Jessner

19.  From Metalinguistic Awareness to Multilingual Awareness: Bridging Theory and Practice in Multilingual Learning and Assessment

Barbara Hofer, Birgit Spechtenhauser and Elisabeth Allgäuer-Hackl

20.  Language Awareness Development in Language Students and Teachers through Linguistic Landscapes: Pedagogical Insights and a Research Agenda

Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer and Lisa Marie Brinkmann

21.  The Role of Language Awareness in a Study Abroad Context

Àngels Llanes and Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández

22.  Pragmatic Awareness in Second Language Acquisition

Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig

23.  The Role of Phonological Awareness in Language Learning

Tracey M. Derwing

24.  The Study of Metalinguistic Constructs in Second Language Acquisition Research: An Update

Daphnée Simard and Xavier Gutiérrez

Part Three.  Beyond Language Pedagogy

25.  Language Awareness in the Context of Dementia

Alison Wray

26.  Language Awareness and Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Visual Composition

Theo van Leeuwen

27.  Folk Linguistics and Language Awareness

Dennis R. Preston

28.  Language Awareness and Language Change

Tore Kristiansen

29.  Language Awareness and Translation

Kirsten Malmkjær

30.  Language Awareness, Intercultural Communicative Competence and Intercultural Citizenship

Melina Porto, Sarah Boye and Michael Byram

31.  Language Awareness in Multilingual and Multicultural Organizations

Eva Codó

32.  Critical Language Awareness: A Key Competence for Leadership

Erika Darics and Arran Stibbe

33.  Contesting Key Terms and Concepts in the Civil Sphere: A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of Language Awareness

Tom Bartlett, Nicolina Montesano Montessori and Harriet Lloyd

34.  The Affective Parameter of Language Awareness and Minoritized Languages

David Lasagabaster and Ada Bier

35.  Language Awareness in Diasporic Contexts

Anikó Hatoss

Index

Biography

Peter Garrett is Emeritus Professor in the Language and Linguistics Programme in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. He was a founder member and Secretary of the Association for Language Awareness in 1992, and Editor of the journal Language Awareness from 1993 until 2008. He has been made an Honorary Member of the Association for Language Awareness.

Josep M. Cots is Professor of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. He was a founder member of the Association for Language Awareness in 1992 and has been a member of its Executive Committee. He has also been a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Language Awareness.