New Trends in Foreign Language Teaching


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Language teaching approaches, methods and procedures are constantly undergoing reassessment. New ideas keep emerging as the growing complexity of the means of communication and the opportunities created by technology put language skills to new uses. In addition, the political, social and economic impact of globalisation, the new demands of the labour market that result from it, the pursuit of competitiveness, the challenges of intercultural communication and the diversification of culture have opened new perspectives on the central role that foreign languages have come to play in the development of contemporary societies. This book provides an insight into the latest developments in the field and discusses the new trends in foreign language teaching in four major areas, namely methods and approaches, teacher training, innovation in the classroom, and evaluation and assessment.




New Trends in Corpora and Language Learning


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This book provides an up-to-date snapshot of recent research and developments in the use of corpora for language learning and teaching. It is divided into three parts. Part I focusses on innovative uses of corpora by language teachers and learners. These cover the world's first corpus-based TV program for the teaching of English conversation, as well as corpus-based approaches to the teaching of EAP, cultural studies and translation. Part II focuses on new corpus-based tools for LSP learning. Part III illustrates research findings from corpora consisting of language learner data and discusses their implications for language teaching and learning. It will appeal to scholars in both language teaching and learning and corpus and computational linguistics.




Advances and Current Trends in Language Teacher Identity Research


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This book presents the latest research on understanding language teacher identity and development for both novice and experienced researchers and educators, and introduces non-experts in language teacher education to key topics in teacher identity research. It covers a wide range of backgrounds, themes, and subjects pertaining to language teacher identity and development. Some of these include the effects of apprenticeship in doctoral training on novice teacher identity; the impacts of mid-career redundancy on the professional identities of teachers; challenges faced by teachers in the construction of their professional identities; the emerging professional identity of pre-service teachers; teacher identity development of beginning teachers; the role of emotions in the professional identities of non-native English speaking teachers; the negotiation of professional identities by female academics. Advances and Current Trends in Language Teacher Identity Research will appeal to academics in ELT/TESOL/applied linguistics. It will also be useful to those who are non-experts in language teacher education, yet still need to know about theories and recent advances in the area due to varying reasons including their affiliation to a teacher training institute; needs to participate in projects on language teacher education; and teaching a course for pre-service and in-service language teachers.




New Trends in English Language Teaching & Learning


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This book suggests a novel approach to teaching English, drawing on ideas from English for Specific Purposes (ESP) studies and real-world applications, and also the expanding body of research connecting pattern recognition as well as language acquisition. The authors claim that students should not aim to achieve idealistic native-like proficiency in all aspects of the language, but rather should focus on acquiring the skills necessary to achieve their individual objectives. Those in the domains of academia, research, as well as post-graduate study who are interested in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a Second Language (ESL) will find this book to be of considerable interest. This books goal is to provide the groundwork for defining the state of the discipline today, including the most widely held perspectives. Therefore, the book addresses the ideas, beliefs, knowledge, techniques, and practices of TESOL professionals in an effort to better educate teachers. This book is intended for future and current teachers of English like a foreign language, educator’s trainers, and teachers of modern languages who are engaged in the teaching of any languages. The main objective is to assist readers in assisting themselves. Therefore, the reader is urged to investigate the process of teaching foreign languages in order to enhance his or her own pedagogical methods and to make the process of teaching foreign languages easier, enjoyable, and productive.




Trends and Developments for the Future of Language Education in Higher Education


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Language education tends to require more face-to-face interaction and longer hours of both teaching and learning. The challenges of ensuring the future and development of the discipline, especially after a time of crisis, is equally unprecedented. A comprehensive overview of the global picture of best practices as well as research in recent times are needed in the field of language education, particularly in higher education settings. The changing nature of language education in terms of its policy, curriculum design, methodology, and innovation is an essential discussion to advance the field. It is critical to explore how a more collaborative, global, and interdisciplinary mindset, as well as technologically driven approaches have emerged through recent years and how it will continue to shape the future development in the field. Trends and Developments for the Future of Language Education in Higher Education captures the current trends and ongoing development within language education through a global picture of the best practices as well as the latest research on language education in higher education settings. The chapters cover changes in policy, curriculum design, methodology, and innovation in the modern language education landscape. While focusing on the current situation of language education and the changes that it has been undergoing, this book also provides information on future development and the overall outlook of language education. This book is ideal for teachers, instructional designers, curricula developers, inservice and preservice teachers, administrators, teacher educators, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students looking for an overview of the current position of language education in higher education.




Issues in Materials Development


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Issues in Materials Development provides readers with theoretical foundations and practical aspects of designing materials for EFL/ESL contexts. It starts with discussing some basic and preliminary principles of materials design followed by scrutinizing critical issues in materials development in an objective and systematic way. This ranges from considering learners’ needs, adopting, adapting, selection, and gradation of materials to the specific focus of the book on developing various types of materials for the four language skills, pronunciation, ESP vocabulary, and computer assisted language learning materials. Authenticity of materials to be designed and the inclusion of affective factors to develop motivating materials to engage language learners, in addition to features of materials design at a universal level are other areas to read about. This book finally tries to open new horizons and possible futuristic approaches to improve today’s ELT materials.




Innovations in English Language Teaching in India


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Innovations in English Language Teaching: Trends in Language Pedagogy and Technology looks at the various trends and innovations that have emerged recently in the field of English Language Teaching. It gives an overview of the influence of a rapid change in the use of technology in the English language classroom which has an impact on the learning, acquisition, and enhancement of various language skills. It is an edited volume of twelve chapters dealing with a range of issues related to the current innovations and trends in English Language Teaching. Section I has six chapters, dealing specifically with language pedagogy and a diverse spectrum of papers discussing the use of technology in ELT. Section II comprises of six ELT case studies.




Recent Perspectives on Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching


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This volume addresses TBLT from various perspectives and aims to reflect the epistemological diversity in this area by drawing on multiple perspectives (i.e. cognitive-interactionist, complexity theory, sociocultural theory, and pedagogical/curricul




Emerging Concepts in Technology-Enhanced Language Teaching and Learning


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"By exploring the recent development of new technologies for language teaching and learning, this book to provides an academic source of state-of-the-arts research among Technology-Enhanced Language Teaching and Learning (TELTL) scholars and practitioners to gain insights into and synergy of the theories, pedagogies, technological design and evaluation of TELTL environments for comprehending the trend and strategies of the new digital era as well as investigate the possibility of future TELTL research direction"--




New perspectives on teaching and working with languages in the digital era


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This volume offers a comprehensive, empirical and methodological view over new scenarios recently emerged in language teaching and learning, such as blended learning, e-learning, ubiquitous, social, autonomous or lifelong learning, and also over some new (ICT-based) approaches that can support them (CALL, MALL, CLIL, LMOOCs).