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Book SynopsisThe 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 âbroaderâ contextual issues to a ânarrowerâ focus on classrooms and classroom discourse, the volumeâs interrelated themes focus on:
â ELT in the world: contexts and goals
â planning and organising ELT: curriculum, resources and settings
â methods and methodology: perspectives and practices
â second language learning and learners
â teaching language: knowledge, skills and pedagogy
â understanding the language classroom.
The Handbookâs 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 convincingl
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'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
Table of ContentsList 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
