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The Handbook of Language Teaching

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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 x Part I Overview 1 1 Language Teaching 3 Michael H. Long Part II Social, Political, and Educational Contexts of Language Teaching 7 2 The Social and Sociolinguistic Contexts of Language Learning and Teaching 9 Sandra Lee McKay and Rani Rubdy 3 The Politics and Policies of Language and Language Teaching 26 Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas 4 History of Language Teaching 42 Diane Musumeci Part III Psycholinguistic Underpinnings of Language Learning 63 5 The Language-Learning Brain 65 Alan Beretta 6 Sequences and Processes in Language Learning 81 Lourdes Ortega 7 The Importance of Cross-Linguistic Similarity in Foreign Language Learning 106 Håkan Ringbom and Scott Jarvis 8 Cognitive-Psychological Processes in Second Language Learning 119 Robert M. DeKeyser 9 Optimizing the Input: Frequency and Sampling in Usage-Based and Form-Focused Learning 139 Nick C. Ellis Part IV Program Design 159 10 Bilingual and Immersion Programs 161 Jim Cummins 11 Heritage Language Programs 182 Silvina Montrul 12 Specific Purpose Programs 201 Ken Hyland 13 Study Abroad Research: Findings, Implications, and Future Directions 218 Joseph Collentine 14 Less Commonly Taught Languages: Issues in Learning and Teaching 234 Kira gor and Karen Vatz 15 Third Language Acquisition Theory and Practice 250 William P. Rivers and Ewa M. Golonka Part V Course Design and Materials Writing 267 16 Foreign and Second Language Needs Analysis 269 James Dean Brown 17 Syllabus Design 294 Peter Robinson 18 Advances in Materials Design 311 Alan Waters 19 Corpora in Language Teaching 327 John Flowerdew 20 Technology-Enhanced Materials 351 David Brett and Marta González-Lloret Part VI Teaching and Testing 371 21 Methodological Principles for Language Teaching 373 Michael H. Long 22 Teaching and Testing Listening Comprehension 395 Larry Vandergrift and Christine Goh 23 Teaching and Testing Speaking 412 Martin Bygate 24 Teaching and Testing Reading 441 William Grabe 25 Learning to Read in New Writing Systems 463 Keiko Koda 26 Teaching and Testing Writing 486 Charlene Polio and Jessica Williams 27 Teaching and Testing Grammar 518 Diane Larsen-Freeman 28 Teaching and Testing Vocabulary 543 Paul Nation and Teresa Chung 29 Teaching and Testing Pragmatics 560 Carsten Roever 30 Task-Based Teaching and Testing 578 John M. Norris 31 Radical Language Teaching 595 Graham Crookes 32 Diagnostic Feedback in Language Assessment 610 Antony John Kunnan and Eunice Eunhee Jang 33 Computer-Assisted Teaching and Testing 628 Carol A. Chapelle Part VII Teacher Education 645 34 Language Teacher Education 647 Renée Jourdenais 35 Diffusion and Implementation of Innovations 659 Kris Van den Branden Part VIII Assessing and Evaluating Instruction 673 36 Current Trends in Classroom Research 675 Rosamond F. Mitchell 37 Issues in Language Teacher Evaluation 706 Kathleen M. Bailey 38 Investigating the Effects and Effectiveness of L2 Instruction 726 Rick de Graaff and Alex Housen 39 Program Evaluation 756 Steven J. Ross Author Index 779 Subject Index 791


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781444350029
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 38 mm
  • Width: 168 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1444350021
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jul 2011
  • Height: 244 mm
  • No of Pages: 832
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 1450 gr


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