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Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, this Handbook is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference guide to language teaching. A comprehensive reference work on language teaching, which combines the latest research findings, coverage of core topics, and examples of teaching experience from a variety of languages and settings Provides a unique breadth of coverage, including: the psycholinguistic underpinnings of language learning; social, political, and educational contexts; program design; materials writing and course design; teaching and testing; teacher education; and assessment and evaluation Offers a balanced evaluation of the major positions and approaches, including examining the increasingly important social and political context of language teaching Written by an international and interdisciplinary group of authors from a dozen different countries; English is only one of the many languages used as examples throughout the volume

Table of Contents:
List of Contributors. Part I Overview. 1 Language Teaching ( M ichael H. L ong ). Part II Social, Political, and Educational Contexts of Language Teaching. 2 The Social and Sociolinguistic Contexts of Language Learning and Teaching ( S andra Lee McKay and Rani R ubdy ). 3 The Politics and Policies of Language and Language Teaching ( R obert Phillipson and T ove Skutnabb-Kangas ). 4 History of Language Teaching ( Diane Musumeci ). Part III Psycholinguistic Underpinnings of Language Learning. 5 The Language-Learning Brain ( Alan Beretta ). 6 Sequences and Processes in Language Learning ( Lourdes Ortega ). 7 The Importance of Cross-Linguistic Similarity in Foreign Language Learning ( Hakan Ringbom and Scott Jarvis ). 8 Cognitive-Psychological Processes in Second Language Learning ( Robert M. DeKeyser ). 9 Optimizing the Input: Frequency and Sampling in Usage-Based and Form-Focused Learning ( Nick C. Ellis ). Part IV Program Design. 10 Bilingual and Immersion Programs ( J im C ummins ). 11 Heritage Language Programs ( Silvina Montrul ). 12 Specific Purpose Programs ( Ken Hyland ). 13 Study Abroad Research: Findings, Implications, and Future Directions ( Joseph Collentine ). 14 Less Commonly Taught Languages: Issues in Learning and Teaching ( Kira gor and Karen Vatz ). 15 Third Language Acquisition Theory and Practice ( William P. Rivers and Ewa M . Golonka ). Part V Course Design and Materials Writing. 16 Foreign and Second Language Needs Analysis ( J ames Dean Brown ). 17 Syllabus Design ( Peter Robinson ). 18 Advances in Materials Design ( Alan Waters ). 19 Corpora in Language Teaching ( John Flowerdew ). 20 Technology-Enhanced Materials ( David Brett and Marta Gonzalez-Lloret ). Part VI Teaching and Testing. 21 Methodological Principles for Language Teaching ( Michael H. Long ). 22 Teaching and Testing Listening Comprehension ( Larry Vandergrift and Christine Goh ). 23 Teaching and Testing Speaking ( Martin Bygate ). 24 Teaching and Testing Reading ( William Grabe ). 25 Learning to Read in New Writing Systems ( Keiko Koda ). 26 Teaching and Testing Writing ( Charlene Polio and Jessica Williams ). 27 Teaching and Testing Grammar ( Diane Larsen-Freeman ). 28 Teaching and Testing Vocabulary ( Paul Nation and Teresa Chung ). 29 Teaching and Testing Pragmatics ( Carsten Roever ). 30 Task-Based Teaching and Testing ( J ohn M. Norris ). 31 Radical Language Teaching ( G raham Crookes ). 32 Diagnostic Feedback in Language Assessment ( Antony John Kunnan and Eunice Eunhee Jang ). 33 Computer-Assisted Teaching and Testing ( Carol A. Chapelle ). Part VII Teacher Education. 34 Language Teacher Education ( Renee Jourdenais ). 35 Diffusion and Implementation of Innovations ( Kris Van den Branden ). Part VIII Assessing and Evaluating Instruction. 36 Current Trends in Classroom Research ( Rosamond F. Mitchell ). 37 Issues in Language Teacher Evaluation ( Kathleen M. Bailey ) 38 Investigating the Effects and Effectiveness of L2 Instruction ( Rick de Graaff and Alex Housen ). 39 Program Evaluation ( Steven J. Ross ). Author Index. Subject Index.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781444331523
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
  • Height: 254 mm
  • Spine Width: 49 mm
  • Width: 185 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1444331523
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 2009
  • Binding: Other digital
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 1570 gr


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