The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching / Edition 1

by Graham Hall

Overview

The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching is the definitive reference volume for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students of Applied Linguistics, ELT/TESOL, and Language Teacher Education, and for ELT professionals engaged in in-service teacher development and/or undertaking academic study.

Progressing from ‘broader’ contextual issues to a ‘narrower’ focus on classrooms and classroom discourse, the volume’s inter-related themes focus on:

• ELT in the world: contexts and goals
• planning and organising ELT: curriculum, resources and settings
• methods and methodology: perspectives and practices
• second language learning and learners
• teaching language: knowledge, skills and pedagogy
• understanding the language classroom.

The Handbook’s 39 chapters are written by leading figures in ELT from around the world. Mindful of the diverse pedagogical, institutional and social contexts for ELT, they convincingly present the key issues, areas of debate and dispute, and likely future developments in ELT from an applied linguistics perspective.

Throughout the volume, readers are encouraged to develop their own thinking and practice in contextually appropriate ways, assisted by discussion questions and suggestions for further reading that accompany every chapter.

Advisory board: Guy Cook, Diane Larsen-Freeman, Amy Tsui, and Steve Walsh

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415747394
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/24/2016
Series:	Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	610
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Graham Hall is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Humanities, Northumbria University (UK) and the current editor of ELT Journal.

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures AcknowledgementsList of contributorsIntroduction: English language teaching in the contemporary worldPART I1 World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca: a changingcontext for ELT2 Politics, power relationships and ELT3 Language and culture in ELT4 ‘Native speakers’, English and ELT: changing perspectives5 Educational perspectives on ELT: society and the individual;traditional, progressive and transformativePART II6 Language curriculum design: possibilities and realities7 ELT materials: claims, critiques and controversies8 Dealing with the demands of language testing and assessment9 Language teacher education10 New technologies, blended learning and the ‘flipped classroom’in ELT11 English for specific purposes12 English for academic purposes13 English for speakers of other languages: language educationand migration14 Bilingual education in a multilingual worldPART III15 Method, methods and methodology: historical trends andcurrent debates16 Communicative language teaching in theory and practice17 Task-based language teaching18 Content and language integrated learning19 Appropriate methodology: towards a cosmopolitan approachPART IV20 Cognitive perspectives on classroom language learning21 Sociocultural theory and the language classroom22 Individual differences23 Motivation24 Learner autonomy25 Primary ELT: issues and trends26 Secondary ELT: issues and trendsPART V27 Corpora in ELT28 Language Awareness29 Teaching language as a system30 Teaching language skills31 Teaching literacy32 Using literature in ELTPART VI33 Complexity and language teaching34 Classroom talk, interaction and collaboration35 Errors, corrective feedback and repair: variations andlearning outcomes36 Questioning ‘English-only’ classrooms: own-language use in ELT37 Teaching large classes in difficult circumstances38 Computer-mediated communication and language learning39 Values in the ELT classroomIndex

Editorial Reviews

'English language teaching (ELT) is now an immensely complex field of research and practice. This volume admirably captures the scope of the major themes that must now underpin informed ELT. Researchers, teacher educators and teachers alike will gain immensely from being able to refer to such a comprehensive and authoritative collection.' Anne Burns, University of New South Wales, Australia

'Suitable for all readers looking to enhance their academic, professional and practical skills, this eclectic collection will provide much-needed material and inspiration.' Maja Milatovic, ANU College, Canberra, Australia, English Australia Journal

'... it will also no doubt, stimulate professional and academic reflection on the key issues facing ELT. I for one will be certainly using this Handbook with my post-graduate students although even undergraduates in the field of language would benefit considerably.' J.A. Foley, Assumption University, Thailand

'The editor of the volume has lined up an impressive array of accomplished scholars to help him do justice to the formidable task he has set himself to do. And, to be sure, the outcome is a truly great volume of papers of encyclopedic proportions that provides the reader with an up-to-date survey of key areas of research, both historically and currently of interest, to myriads of ELT professionals as well as other interested researchers in the field of applied linguistics.' Kanavillil Rajagopalan, Word

"... there is a lot that is edgy, informative, enlightening— and challenging. I especially like the discussion questions, related topics and further readings sections which, together with the references, end each article. This makes this ‘handbook’ a fantastic jumping-off point for further study and connection-making."

Jeremy Harmer, ELT Journal, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 2019

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