Applied Linguistics

Adolescent Second Language Learning and Multilingualism (e-book)

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Series Advisers: Anne Burns and Diane Larsen Freeman

This is the first book dedicated exclusively to presenting the current state of scholarship on multilingual development and language use among adolescents. Drawing upon the fast-growing interdisciplinary field of youth studies, the book provides a detailed examination of the linguistic, cognitive, and literacy development of multilingual teenagers in home, school, community, and global contexts.

Adolescent Second Language Learning and Multilingualism

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Series Advisers: Anne Burns and Diane Larsen Freeman

This is the first book dedicated exclusively to presenting the current state of scholarship on multilingual development and language use among adolescents. Drawing upon the fast-growing interdisciplinary field of youth studies, the book provides a detailed examination of the linguistic, cognitive, and literacy development of multilingual teenagers in home, school, community, and global contexts.

Educating Second Language Teachers e-book

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Donald Freeman

Donald Freeman examines how core ideas and practices in educating second language teachers relate to and differ from teacher education in other content areas. He weaves together research in general and second language teacher education with accounts of experience and practice to examine how background knowledge is defined in language teaching.

Educating Second Language Teachers e-book for Kindle

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Donald Freeman

Donald Freeman examines how core ideas and practices in educating second language teachers relate to and differ from teacher education in other content areas. He weaves together research in general and second language teacher education with accounts of experience and practice to examine how background knowledge is defined in language teaching.

Form-focused Instruction and Teacher Education e-book

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Sandra Fotos and Hossein Nassaji

An overview of form-focused instruction as an option for second language grammar teaching. It combines theoretical concerns, classroom practices, and teacher education.

Form-focused Instruction and Teacher Education e-book for Kindle

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Sandra Fotos and Hossein Nassaji

From Experience to Knowledge in ELT e-Book for Kindle

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Julian Edge and Sue Garton

Each title in the series is intended to serve both as a basis for training courses and seminars, and as a reference text.

The Multilingual Subject e-book

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Claire Kramsch

This book explores the subjective aspects of language learning, skillfully integrating multiple levels of analysis, and bridging the gap between theory and practice. It analyzes data gathered from published testimonies and language memoirs of former language learners, spoken and written data from American college language learners, and online data from language learners in electronic chatrooms and text messaging exchanges. The author encourages readers to consider foreign language learning from new, diverse, and unique perspectives.

Task-based Language Learning and Teaching

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Rod Ellis

This book explores the relationship between research, teaching, and tasks, and shows how research and task-based teaching can mutually inform each other and illuminated the areas of task-based course design, methodology, and assessment.