'How Languages Are Learned' provides a readable introduction to the main theories of first and second language acquisition, relating them to approaches to classroom methodology and practice.
How can theories of language development be understood and applied in your language classroom? By presenting a range of linguistic perspectives from formal to functional to cognitive, this text highlights the relevance of second language acquisition research to the language clas…
This volume examines the agency of second/foreign language teachers in diverse geographical contexts and in both K-12 and adult education. It offers new understandings and conceptualizations of second/foreign language teacher agency through a variety of types of empirical data. …
This volume examines the agency of second/foreign language teachers in diverse geographical contexts and in both K-12 and adult education. It offers new understandings and conceptualizations of second/foreign language teacher agency through a variety of types of empirical data. …
Teaching and researching autonomy
by Benson, Phil
fromApplied linguistics in action series
"This cutting edge volume explores holistic trends in multilingualism, analysing the processes of both 'becoming multilingual' and 'being multilingual'. Multilingualism has increased in recent years due to globalisation, transnational mobility and the spread of Information and C…
To date, the majority of work in language learning psychology has focused on the learner. In contrast, relatively little attention has been paid to teacher psychology. This volume seeks to redress the imbalance by bringing together various strands of research into the psychology…
This work addresses the significance of the relationship between the aims and methods of language teaching and the contexts in which it takes place.
"The book offers a collection of papers that, taken jointly, serve to show the academic potential of English Studies. The chapters, which give a cross section of research in English literature, linguistics, language teaching and translation studies, testify to a topical and disc…
Historically, the native speaker (NS) has long been used as a model when it comes to language teaching and learning. However, to date, the discussion of the native speaker teacher (NST) and non-native speaker teacher (NNST) has been primarily limited to English as a second langu…
This study explores the professional values which underpin choices madeon behalf of young children (three to seven year olds) for learning aforeign language in English nursery, infant and primary schools. Since theEducation Reform Act of 1988, young children in maintained early …
This open access book is designed as an international anthology on the broader subject of inclusion, education, social justice and translanguaging. Prefaced by Ofelia García, the volume unites conceptional and empirical contributions focusing on various actors within educational…