Handbook Of Practical Second Language Teaching And Learning
Edited by Hinkel Eli
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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.
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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:
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- Part I: Learning Contexts and Language Teaching covers the diverse populations of language learners, their needs, and the challenges they face
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- Part II: Curriculum and Instruction addresses curriculum and materials design, and includes exemplars of instructional approaches with wide applicability across contexts
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- Part III: Listening and Speaking overviews listening pedagogy, speaking skills, and pronunciation, among other key topics
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
Table of contents:
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
