Handbook Of Practical Second Language Teaching And Learning

This seminal volume is a practical, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research on second and foreign language teaching and learning. Bringing together leading experts in the field, the contributors offer important perspectives on major, established, and emerging topics.

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. Pro