Applied Linguistics

Language Assessment in Practice e-book

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Lyle Bachman and Adrian Palmer

Presents an innovative, unified, and easily applied approach to designing and developing language assessments.

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.

Oxford Applied Linguistics Language Learning Motivation

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Series Advisers: Anne Burns and Diane Larsen Freeman

Ema Ushioda asks why we research language learning motivation, whose interests the research serves, and who ultimately benefits.

Oxford Applied Linguistics Language Learning Motivation (e-book)

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Series Advisers: Anne Burns and Diane Larsen Freeman

Ema Ushioda asks why we research language learning motivation, whose interests the research serves, and who ultimately benefits.

Oxford Applied Linguistics Language Learning Motivation (e-book for kindle)

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Series Advisers: Anne Burns and Diane Larsen Freeman

Ema Ushioda asks why we research language learning motivation, whose interests the research serves, and who ultimately benefits.

Fairness, Justice and Language Assessment (e-book for Kindle)

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Series Advisers: Anne Burns and Diane Larsen Freeman

This book explores the difference between fairness and justice in language assessment, and shows how test fairness can be demonstrated and improved.

Fairness, Justice and Language Assessment (e-book)

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Series Advisers: Anne Burns and Diane Larsen Freeman

This book explores the difference between fairness and justice in language assessment, and shows how test fairness can be demonstrated and improved.

Fairness, Justice and Language Assessment

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Series Advisers: Anne Burns and Diane Larsen Freeman

This book explores the difference between fairness and justice in language assessment, and shows how test fairness can be demonstrated and improved.

Second Language Pragmatics

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Naoko Taguchi and Carsten Roever

Taguchi and Roever present the latest developments in second language pragmatics research, combining acquisitional and sociolinguistic perspectives.

Second Language Pragmatics e-Book

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Naoko Taguchi and Carsten Roever

Taguchi and Roever present the latest developments in second language pragmatics research, combining acquisitional and sociolinguistic perspectives. They cover theories of pragmatics learning and research methods in investigating pragmatics, linking these with findings on the acquisition of second language pragmatics and with practice in teaching and assessing pragmatics. Discussing pragmatics in the context of multilingual societies and diverse contexts of use, they offer a broad perspective on this growing area.

Second Language Pragmatics e-Book for Kindle

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Naoko Taguchi and Carsten Roever

Taguchi and Roever present the latest developments in second language pragmatics research, combining acquisitional and sociolinguistic perspectives.

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.

Educating Second Language Teachers

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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.

Academic Publishing: Issues and Challenges in the Construction of Knowledge e-Book for Kindle

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Ken Hyland

Ken Hyland provides an authoritative discussion of key aspects of writing for academic publication.

Academic Publishing: Issues and Challenges in the Construction of Knowledge e-Book

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Ken Hylans

Ken Hyland provides an authoritative discussion of key aspects of writing for academic publication.
As well as outlining implications for pedagogy in the English-language classroom, Hyland fully evaluates the social practices surrounding knowledge creation and the political implications of global publishing.

Understanding Second Language Acquisition e-book for Kindle

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Rod Ellis

This new, fully updated edition continues to provide an authoritative and highly readable introduction to key areas of theory and research in second language acquisition.

Understanding Second Language Acquisition e-book

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Rod Ellis

This new, fully updated edition continues to provide an authoritative and highly readable introduction to key areas of theory and research in second language acquisition.

Understanding Second Language Acquisition

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Rod Ellis

This new, fully updated edition continues to provide an authoritative and highly readable introduction to key areas of theory and research in second language acquisition.

Second Language Learning in the Early School Years: Trends and Contexts e-Book for Kindle

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Victoria Murphy

Second Language Learning in the Early School Years: Trends and Contexts e-book

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Victoria Murphy

Second Language Learning in the Early School Years: Trends and Contexts provides a detailed exploration of second language learning in the early years, examining past and present research evidence on bilingualism, second language, and foreign language learning in childhood, and arguing that young children can learn multiple languages without adverse effect on their overall language development in any of their languages.

Teaching Language as Communication e-book

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H G Widdowson

This book develops a rational approach to the teaching of language as communication, based on a careful consideration of the nature of language and of the language user's activities. It will stimulate all language teachers to investigate the ideas that inform their own practice.

Conversational Interaction in Second Language Acquisition e-book

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Alison Mackey

This edited collection of empirical studies provides insights into a wide variety of issues at the center of current research into the relationship between conversational interaction and second language learning outcomes.

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.

Formulaic Language: Pushing the Boundaries e-book

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Alison Wray

Examines how formulaic language ("lexical chunks") is used in a variety of real-life situations.

Presents a framework for examining the existence and function of formulaic language and tests it extensively against language data within a wide variety of language samples. Formulaic language is a fast-growing area of applied linguistic research, and the author is a key figure in this field.

Formulaic Language: Pushing the Boundaries e-Book for Kindle

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Alison Wray

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

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Sandra Fotos and Hossein Nassaji

Conversational Interaction in Second Language Acquisition e-Book for Kindle

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Alison Mackey

Second Language Research Methods e-book

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H W Seliger and E Shohamy

Based on a set of four research parameters, this book discusses the development of research questions and hypotheses, naturalistic and experimental research, data collection, and validation of research instruments. Each chapter includes examples and activities.
Are you about to start a Master's degree where you will be carrying out research for the first time? Or do you refer to research in your work as a teacher, teacher trainer, or materials writer? However you are involved with research, this book will give you a clear and thorough introduction to all the main types of language learning research.

The Struggle to teach English as an International Language e-book

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Adrian Holliday

This book is about the worlds and conflicts of TESOL teachers and researchers whose professional lives are both enriched and problematized by the cultural and political interfaces created by working with an international language. Central to this discussion is the balance of power in classroom and curriculum settings, the relationship between language, culture, and discourse, and the change in the ownership of English.

English is the main language of international communication, and almost everyone wants to learn it. But which English should we teach, and how?
In this book, Sandra Lee McKay challenges the cultural assumptions underlying much of the English teaching currently taking place. She looks at the implications of the spread of English as an international language for what we teach and how we teach it.

The Struggle to teach English as an International Language e-Book for Kindle

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Adrian Holliday

Second Language Research Methods e-Book for Kindle

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H W Seliger and E Shohamy

Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning e-book

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James P. Lantolf

This book represents a major statement of the current research being conducted into the learning of second languages from a sociocultural perspective.
Topics covered include: learning and teaching languages in the zone of proximal development; L1 mediation in the acquisition of L2 grammar and sociocultural theory as a theory of second language learning.

Language Learner Strategies e-book

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Andrew D. Cohen and Ernesto Macaro

Language Learner Strategies e-book

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Andrew D. Cohen and Ernesto Macaro

This book explores the notion that the reason some learners of second languages excel and others struggle lies in what the learners themselves do-the strategies they bring to language learning and to language use.

Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning e-Book for Kindle

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James P. Lantolf

Input, Interaction and Corrective Feedback in L2 Learning e-book for Kindle

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Alison Mackey

The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition e-book

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Zoltan Dornyei

The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition offers a systematic and accessible overview of the main psychological areas and theories in order to keep abreast of the ongoing paradigm shift. Readers will find succinct and up-to-date descriptions of a wide range of psycholinguistic and neuropsychological topics such as language and the brain; neuroimaging and other research methods in psycholinguistics and brain research; non-nativist approaches to language acquisition; explicit/implicit learning and memory, procedural/declarative knowledge, and the automatization of language skills; learner characteristics, age effects, and the critical period hypothesis; and the psychological basis of language learning in educational contexts.

The Multilingual Subject e-book for Kindle

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Claire Kramsch

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.

Literacy and Second Language Oracy e-book for Kindle

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Elaine Tarone and Martha Bigelow

Understanding English as a Lingua Franca e-book for Kindle

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Barbara Seidlhofer

Input, Interaction, and Corrective Feedback in Learning e-book

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Alison Mackey

A study of the role of language input, interaction, and corrective feedback in second-language learning and Second Language Acquisition research.

This book describes the processes involved in interaction-driven second language learning and presents a methodological framework for studying them.

It provides a comprehensive and up-to date survey of the work on language interaction that has emerged over the past two decades, while also reflecting the recent shift to an exploration of cognitive and social factors in evaluating how interaction works.

Literacy and Second Language Oracy e-book

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Elaine Tarone and Martha Bigelow

This book offers research evidence with a startling conclusion: language processing skills that have been assumed to be universal human traits appear instead to be a product of learners' experience with alphabetic print literacy.

The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition e-book

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Zoltán Dörnyei

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.

Understanding English as a Lingua Franca e-book

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Barbara Seidlhofer

A clear explanation of the theories and principles underlying English as a Lingua Franca studies and how they relate to other areas of research.

The number of English speakers in the world continues to grow, but the vast majority are non-native speakers using English to communicate with each other, rather than with native speakers.

This book examines the use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) from various perspectives. It explores the various ways in which ELF represents a challenge to the predominance of the native-speaker model, as well as its implications for other fields of linguistic research and for English language teaching.

The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition

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Zoltán Dörnyei

The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition offers a systematic and accessible overview of the main psychological areas and theories in order to keep abreast of the ongoing paradigm shift. Readers will find succinct and up-to-date descriptions of a wide range of psycholinguistic and neuropsychological topics such as language and the brain; neuroimaging and other research methods in psycholinguistics and brain research; non-nativist approaches to language acquisition; explicit/implicit learning and memory, procedural/declarative knowledge, and the automatization of language skills; learner characteristics, age effects, and the critical period hypothesis; and the psychological basis of language learning in educational contexts.

Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics

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Diane Larsen-Freeman and Lynne Cameron

This book introduces key concepts in complexity theory and demonstrates the applicability and usefulness of these concepts to a range of areas in applied linguistics, including first and second language development, language teaching, and discourse analysis.

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics

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Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methodologies

Zoltán Dörnyei

This is a very practical and accessible book that offers a comprehensive overview of research methodology in applied linguistics by describing the various stages of qualitative and quantitative investigations, from collecting the data to reporting the results. It also discusses 'mixed methods research', that is, the various combinations of qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

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.

Linguistic Imperialism

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Robert Phillipson

This book explores English as an international language, and how and why it has become so dominant.

Applied Linguistics Journal

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Research into language with relevance to real-world problems.

Applied Linguistics publishes research into language with relevance to real world problems. It promotes principled and multidisciplinary approaches to research on language-related concerns in the various fields encompassed by applied linguistics.

Oxford Applied Linguistics

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Series Advisers: Anne Burns and Diane Larsen Freeman

Home to the most innovative studies in its field, the Oxford Applied Linguistics series furthers research in English teaching and learning, and provides strong foundations for language pedagogy.