The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching

by Graham Hall (Editor)

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 interrelated 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367473037
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/04/2020
Series:	Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
Pages:	610
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Graham Hall is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics/TESOL at Northumbria University, UK. He is author of Exploring English Language Teaching: Language in Action (2011; 2nd edition, 2017), which was the winner of the 2012 British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) book prize. He was editor of ELT Journal from 2013-17.

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Introduction: English language teaching in the contemporary world

PART I

1 World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca: a changing

context for ELT

2 Politics, power relationships and ELT

3 Language and culture in ELT

4 ‘Native speakers’, English and ELT: changing perspectives

5 Educational perspectives on ELT: society and the individual;

traditional, progressive and transformative

PART II

6 Language curriculum design: possibilities and realities

7 ELT materials: claims, critiques and controversies

8 Dealing with the demands of language testing and assessment

9 Language teacher education

10 New technologies, blended learning and the ‘flipped classroom’

in ELT

11 English for specific purposes

12 English for academic purposes

13 English for speakers of other languages: language education

and migration

14 Bilingual education in a multilingual world

PART III

15 Method, methods and methodology: historical trends and

current debates

16 Communicative language teaching in theory and practice

17 Task-based language teaching

18 Content and language integrated learning

19 Appropriate methodology: towards a cosmopolitan approach

PART IV

20 Cognitive perspectives on classroom language learning

21 Sociocultural theory and the language classroom

22 Individual differences

23 Motivation

24 Learner autonomy

25 Primary ELT: issues and trends

26 Secondary ELT: issues and trends

PART V

27 Corpora in ELT

28 Language Awareness

29 Teaching language as a system

30 Teaching language skills

31 Teaching literacy

32 Using literature in ELT

PART VI

33 Complexity and language teaching

34 Classroom talk, interaction and collaboration

35 Errors, corrective feedback and repair: variations and

learning outcomes

36 Questioning ‘English-only’ classrooms: own-language use in ELT

37 Teaching large classes in difficult circumstances

38 Computer-mediated communication and language learning

39 Values in the ELT classroom

Index

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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