Bilingualism / ESL

Assessment in Second Language Pronunciation highlights the importance of pronunciation in the assessment of second language speaking proficiency...

The book explores the pedagogical potential of autobiographical writing in English-as-a-foreign language, approaching the topic from an educational, longitudinal, dialogical, and social perspective. Through a number of case studies, the author delineates four phases that EFL writers may experience i..

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Through the real-life context of one child learning to be bilingual and biliterate, this book raises questions and provides a context for teachers to understand and reflect on how children learn to read and write in multiple languages...

Through the real-life context of one child learning to be bilingual and biliterate, this book raises questions and provides a context for teachers to understand and reflect on how children learn to read and write in multiple languages...

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Drawing upon a large-scale original study of language faculty, instructors, program directors, and students who have experience with blended classes of thirteen languages other than English, this volume provides new information about the breadth of blended course designs and implementation strategie..

Building a Validity Argument for the Test of English as a Foreign Language™ is distinctive in its attempt to develop a coherent story of the rationale for a test or its revision, explain the research and development process, and provide the results of the validation process. This volume is particula..

This volume gives language teachers, software designers, and researchers who wish to use technology in second or foreign language education the information they need to absorb what has been achieved so far and to make sense of it. It is designed to enable the kind of critical reading of a substantia..

This casebook covers a wide range of teaching-learning contexts and offers in-depth analyses of ESL/ELT language curriculum design issues. Each case draws on and is linked to the model presented in Nation and Macalister’s Language Curriculum Design...

Addressing a wide range of issues in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and multilingualism and offering new critical perspectives, this volume focuses on language users, the ‘people.’  The book is inspired by the work of Elana Shohamy...