Gives you a unique 'hands-on' introduction to studying ESL learners' language using video interviews and footage of students doing language tasks Uses linked exercises in the book to guide you through the stages of analysing learners' language Provides full transcripts and an answer discussion section to help you to study and refer back to the input and explanations. Case study approach gives you the skills that will help you to explore learner language in your own classroom Recommended for TESOL Masters and Diploma students and language teacher educators
Exploring Learner Language
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This book explores key areas of educational and social psychology and considers their relevance to language learning and teaching, using activities and questions for reflection.
Following the back-to-front approach of the series, the book takes problematic issues in language pedagogy as its starting points. These are then examined in terms of second language acquisition.
Throughout, the text is guided by considerable practical experience in language education in a range of classroom contexts worldwide.
Winner of the BAAL Book Prize 2012 Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those entering postgraduate studies and ...
This book provides a historical overview of approaches to translation in language education.
Ubernomics: Platform Monopolies & How to Fix Them. [Blog post] https://rufuspollock.com/ubernomics/ First version: Dec 2016, updated Feb 2018. Read, T. and Bárcena, E. (2015). Mobile social learning as a catalyst for cultural heritage.
The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former ...
Furthermore, Atkinson (1999: 641) points out the “basic human urge to categorize those in some ways different from oneself as radically, irreducibly other.” Similarly, Byram (1997, 2001), Byram, Gribkova and Starkey (2002), Palfreyman ...