The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching

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.

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