BIC SubjectsLanguage teaching theory & methods
Digital and Internet-Based Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
Edited by Matt Kessler
This edited volume examines topics related to digital and internet-based research methods in the interdisciplinary field of applied linguistics. The book brings together internationally recognized experts with diverse interests from across the field. Covered are key approaches, methods, tools, and… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 15] 2026. xii, 433 pp.
Task-Based Approaches to Teaching Additional Languages in Primary School
Veronika Timpe-Laughlin and Yuko Goto Butler
How can primary school children develop real communicative ability in an additional language? How can teachers move beyond isolated vocabulary and grammar practice toward meaningful language use that aligns with children’s cognitive, social, and developmental needs? This volume provides the first… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 19] 2026. xv, 208 pp.
Virtual Reality in Inclusive Language Learning: Enhancing vocabulary acquisition for dyslexic university students
Giulia Staggini
This monograph offers a timely and original contribution to applied linguistics by bringing into dialogue second language acquisition, inclusive language learning, and immersive technologies. The volume addresses a persistent gap in current research by focusing on specific language needs and… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 23] 2026. xiii, 323 pp. + index
Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages
Edited by Henry Tyne and Stefania Spina
Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages is the first major volume dedicated to the use of corpora in teaching and learning Romance languages. Covering four Mediterranean Romance languages – French, Italian, Spanish, and Catalan – the volume provides a thematically structured… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 122] 2025. vi, 406 pp.
Broadening the Horizon of TBLT: Plenary addresses from the second decade of the International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching
Edited by Martin East
First launched in 2005, the biennial International Conferences on Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) have become an established event for a broad range of participants, and a key feature of the conferences has been the invited plenary (keynote) addresses. This edited volume brings together a… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 17] 2025. viii, 283 pp.
Corpus Linguistics for Language Learning Research
Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Geraldine Mark and Anne O'Keeffe
This book serves as an introduction to corpus linguistics (CL) for graduate students and researchers in Applied Linguistics, especially in the domains of language learning and teaching. It provides a structured and accessible approach for those new to CL, equipping readers with the foundational… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 12] 2025. xiii, 207 pp.
Early Language Education in Instructed Contexts: Current issues and empirical insights into teaching and learning languages in primary school
Edited by Stefanie Frisch and Karen Glaser
This volume presents state-of-the-art research in early foreign language (L2) education in instructed contexts with a special focus on primary school (ages 5-12). Over the past two decades, early language teaching has become an important factor in both academic inquiry and education policy. Studies… read more
Questionable Research Practices in Applied Linguistics
Edited by Luke Plonsky
Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 8:2 (2025) vi, 240 pp.
Research Methods in Complex Dynamic Systems Theory Approaches to Second Language Development
Edited by Wander Lowie, Rosmawati and Vanessa De Wilde
This edited volume is a timely and significant contribution to second language development research from a Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) perspective. The book addresses the growing need for consistent and practical methodologies for CDST research. Each chapter presents an innovative method… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 14] 2025. x, 222 pp.
Teacher Education for Task-Based Language Teaching
Edited by Xavier Gutiérrez, Lara Bryfonski and Greg Ogilvie
Special issue of TASK 5:2 (2025) vi, 216 pp.
Teaching Chinese as a Second Language in the Era of AI Technology: Literature, film and culture
Edited by Jing Wang
Special issue of Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 60:1 (2025) v, 77 pp.
Technology and Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Connecting research and pedagogy
Edited by Shawn Loewen, Frederick J. Poole, Hyun-Bin Hwang and Matthew D. Coss
This book brings together a team of leading international scholars to explore the rich inter-section of technology and second language (L2) learning and teaching. This innovative volume offers a unique blend of cutting-edge empirical research, pedagogy-informed perspectives, and practical… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 63] 2025. x, 365 pp.
Audiovisual Input and Second Language Learning
Edited by Carmen Muñoz and Imma Miralpeix
This volume presents research on second language learning through audiovisual input, conducted within the SUBTiLL (Subtitles in Language Learning) project at the University of Barcelona. It includes studies exploring various language dimensions and skills, such as vocabulary, pronunciation, and… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 61] 2024. x, 241 pp.
Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Studies
Edited by Dilin Liu, Xiaofei Lu and Isaiah WonHo Yoo
Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 7:2 (2024) v, 192 pp.
Digital Social Reading and Second Language Learning and Teaching
Edited by Joshua J. Thoms and Kristen Michelson
Rapid changes in communication channels, tools, and conventions of interaction over the last two decades have paved the way for increasingly digital learning environments. In second language (L2) education, shifts toward digital learning and teaching were intensified during the pandemic and many… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 21] 2024. ix, 193 pp.
Filling the Void: Young language learners and the intercultural domain
Edited by Sandie Mourão and Raphaelle Beecroft
Special issue of Language Teaching for Young Learners 6:2 (2024) v, 143 pp.
Individual Differences and Task-Based Language Teaching
Edited by Shaofeng Li
This volume consists of a collection of empirical studies and research syntheses investigating the role of individual difference (ID) variables in task-based language teaching (TBLT)—a pedagogical approach that emphasizes the importance of the performance of meaning-oriented tasks in facilitating… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 16] 2024. viii, 379 pp
La integración de la pronunciación en el aula de ELE: Integrating pronunciation in the Spanish language classroom
Editado por Zsuzsanna Bárkányi, M. Mar Galindo Merino y Aarón Pérez-Bernabeu
La integración de la pronunciación en el aula de ELE es una obra colectiva de 23 especialistas que abordan la enseñanza de la pronunciación del español como lengua adicional desde distintas perspectivas con el fin de enriquecer su didáctica. El objetivo es mostrar que la pronunciación encuentra su… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 42] 2024. vi, 310 pp.
Less Frequently Used Research Methodologies in Applied Linguistics
Edited by A. Mehdi Riazi
Research methodology plays a pivotal role in generating new knowledge in any academic discipline. Applied Linguistics (AL) researchers use a variety of research methodologies to address different research problems and research questions, given its interdisciplinary nature. Notwithstanding the… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 6] 2024. vi, 274 pp.
Seeking Changes in a Challenging Time: New perspectives for proficiency-oriented Chinese teaching and beyond
Edited by Yu Liu, Qiaona Yu and Yu Wu
Special issue of Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 59:2 (2024) v, 153 pp.
Teacher-Student Engagement Patterns in CSL Classrooms and Beyond: Video-based multimodal analyses
Edited by Hongyin Tao and Yan Zhou
Special issue of Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 59:3 (2024) v, 173 pp.
Current State of Second Language Studies in Japan
Edited by John Matthews and Shigenori Wakabayashi
Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 6:2 (2023) v, 171 pp.
From Theory to Practice: Adopting the Chinese proficiency grading standards for international Chinese language education in North America
Edited by Jie Zhang and Ye Tian
Special issue of Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 58:2 (2023) v, 102 pp.
L2 Collaborative Writing in Diverse Learning Contexts
Edited by Mimi Li and Meixiu Zhang
This book is the first edited volume to compile up-to-date scholarship that discusses frontier knowledge on second language (L2) collaborative writing (CW) and highlights technology-mediated solutions to it. The volume consists of conceptual papers and empirical studies that explore theoretical,… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 59] 2023. vii, 253 pp.
Meaningful Language Test Scores: Research to enhance score interpretation
Edited by Spiros Papageorgiou and Venessa F. Manna
Research on how stakeholders interpret language test scores and how they make decisions about language proficiency is critical because score-based decisions can be extremely consequential for test takers, score users, such as educational institutions and employers, and the society overall. This… read more[Innovations in Language Learning and Assessment, 1] 2023. x, 172 pp.
The Assessment of Functional Adequacy in Language Performance: Special issue of the Journal on Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning 2:1 (2022)
Edited by Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder
Special issue of TASK 2:1 (2022) v, 158 pp.
Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research Methods
Edited by Laura Gurzynski-Weiss and YouJin Kim
Written for novice and established scholars alike, Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research Methods is a stand-alone research methods guide from an Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) lens. After offering foundations of conducting ISLA research, the subsequent chapters are… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 3] 2022. xxiv, 388 pp.
Language Teacher Development in Digital Contexts
Edited by Hayriye Kayi-Aydar and Jonathon Reinhardt
This volume demonstrates how various methodologies and tools have been used to analyze the multidimensional, dynamic, and complex nature of identities and professional development of language teachers in digital contexts that have not been adequately examined before. It therefore offers new… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 57] 2022. x, 196 pp.
Pedagogical Realities of Implementing Task-Based Language Teaching
Rosemary Erlam and Constanza Tolosa
This book documents how teachers, working in school foreign language learning contexts and teaching beginner learners of languages other than English, learn about and use tasks. It first presents a pedagogically researched account of how teachers learn about, design and evaluate tasks, after being… read more
Aptitude-Treatment Interaction in Second Language Learning
Edited by Robert M. DeKeyser
This volume brings together seven empirical studies about aptitude-treatment interactions (ATI), i.e., about how (second language) learners with different aptitudes match or don’t match with different educational treatments; and aptitude-testing interactions, i.e., about how learners with different… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 116] 2021. v, 202 pp.
Research on EFL learning by young children in Spain
Edited by María del Pilar García Mayo
Special issue of Language Teaching for Young Learners 3:2 (2021) vi, 190 pp.
Studies of Bilingual Processing Presented to Kenneth I. Forster
Edited by Nan Jiang
Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 4:2 (2021) v, 211 pp.
Teaching, Learning and Scaffolding in CLIL Science Classrooms
Edited by Yuen Yi Lo and Angel M.Y. Lin
This edited volume presents a collection of empirical studies examining the teaching and learning processes in science classrooms in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) contexts. It is a timely contribution to the rapidly growing body of CLIL research in response to scholars’ consistent… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 115] 2021. v, 183 pp.
Acquisition of Chinese: Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Edited by Boping Yuan and Yanyu Guo
Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 3:2 (2020) v, 162 pp.
Approaches to Learning, Testing and Researching L2 Vocabulary
Edited by Stuart Webb
This volume brings together a collection of chapters focused on the learning, testing, and researching of L2 vocabulary by leading international researchers including Paul Nation, Batia Laufer, Frank Boers, Elke Peters, Ana Pellicer-Sánchez, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, and Stuart Webb. Questions that… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 109] 2020. v, 234 pp.
Audiovisual Translation in Applied Linguistics: Educational perspectives
Edited by Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin, Jennifer Lertola and Noa Talaván
In recent years, interest in the application of audiovisual translation (AVT) techniques in language teaching has grown beyond unconnected case studies to create a lively network of methodological intertextuality, cross-references, reviews and continuation of previous trials, ultimately defining a… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 111] 2020. v, 207 pp.
Complex Dynamic Systems Theory and L2 Writing Development
Edited by Gary G. Fogal and Marjolijn H. Verspoor
This volume integrates complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) and L2 writing scholarship through a collection of in-depth studies and commentary across a range of writing constructs, learning contexts, and second and foreign languages. The text is arranged thematically across four topics: (i)… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 54] 2020. xvii, 304 pp.
Cross-theoretical Explorations of Interlocutors and their Individual Differences
Edited by Laura Gurzynski-Weiss
This book examines the role of interlocutors and their individual differences (IDs) in second language (L2) development from four theoretical lenses: the cognitive-interactionist approach, sociocultural theory, the variationist approach, and complex dynamic systems theory. A theoretical overview to… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 53] 2020. xii, 270 pp.
Languaging in Language Learning and Teaching: A collection of empirical studies
Edited by Wataru Suzuki and Neomy Storch
This book is the first to bring together a collection of recent empirical studies investigating languaging, an important construct first introduced by Swain in 2006 but which has since been deployed in a growing number of L2 studies. The contributing authors include both established and emerging… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 55] 2020. vii, 313 pp.
National foreign language policies for primary schools: Global perspectives
Edited by Janet Enever
Special issue of Language Teaching for Young Learners 2:2 (2020) v, 156 pp.
Teacher Development for Immersion and Content-Based Instruction
Edited by Laurent Cammarata and T.J. Ó Ceallaigh
Teacher preparation and professional development endeavors are key drivers of successful immersion/bilingual (I/B) and content-based language education (CBLE) programs across a variety of models. However, research in this critical area is scant and has not to date received the academic attention it… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 110] 2020. vi, 201 pp.
Aptitude-treatment interaction in second language learning
Edited by Robert M. DeKeyser
Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 2:2 (2019) v, 200 pp.
Doing SLA Research with Implications for the Classroom: Reconciling methodological demands and pedagogical applicability
Edited by Robert M. DeKeyser and Goretti Prieto Botana
This book is unique in bringing together studies on instructed second language acquisition that focus on a common question: “What renders this research particularly relevant to classroom applications, and what are the advantages, challenges, and potential pitfalls of the methodology adopted?” The… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 52] 2019. vi, 219 pp.
Learner Corpora and Language Teaching
Edited by Sandra Götz and Joybrato Mukherjee
While native corpora and corpus linguistic tools and methods have been used and applied for quite some time in the development of learning and teaching materials, learner corpora are only just beginning to impact the field of language teaching, testing and assessment. This volume helps to close… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 92] 2019. vi, 267 pp.
Assessing L2 Listening: Moving towards authenticity
Gary J. Ockey and Elvis Wagner
This book is relevant for language testers, listening researchers, and oral proficiency teachers, in that it explores four broad themes related to the assessment of L2 listening ability: the use of authentic, real-world spoken texts; the effects of different speech varieties of listening inputs;… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 50] 2018. xvii, 278 pp.
Community Service-Learning for Spanish Heritage Learners: Making connections and building identities
Kelly Lowther Pereira
This book proposes community service-learning as a critical pedagogy that connects learners and communities to address key challenges in heritage language education. The book’s purpose is two-fold: to fill a crucial gap in empirical research on community service-learning in the heritage language… read more[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 18] 2018. x, 248 pp.
Foreign Language Education in Multilingual Classrooms
Edited by Andreas Bonnet and Peter Siemund
This volume challenges traditional approaches to foreign language education and proposes to redefine them in our age of international migration and globalization. Foreign language classrooms are no longer populated by monolingual students, but increasingly by multilingual students with highly… read more[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 7] 2018. viii, 423 pp.
Learning Language through Task Repetition
Edited by Martin Bygate
After more than 20 years of research, this is the first book-length treatment of second language task repetition – the repetition of encounters with a task that involve re-using the same content with the same overall purpose. The topic links task performance with the growing mastery of both the… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 11] 2018. x, 334 pp.
Learning to Read in a Digital World
Edited by Mirit Barzillai, Jenny Thomson, Sascha Schroeder and Paul van den Broek
With digital screens becoming increasingly ubiquitous in the lives of children, from their homes to their classrooms, understanding the influence of these technologies on the ways children read takes on great importance. The aim of this edited volume is to examine how advances in technology are… read more[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 17] 2018. x, 242 pp.
TBLT as a Researched Pedagogy
Edited by Virginia Samuda, Kris Van den Branden and Martin Bygate
Bringing together experienced classroom researchers and teacher educators from different countries where tasks are playing an influential role in language education, this collected volume critically explores how TBLT research can engage with pedagogy, and how TBLT pedagogy can engage with research.… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 12] 2018. viii, 292 pp.
Task-Based Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Pragmatics
Edited by Naoko Taguchi and YouJin Kim
This volume is the first book-length attempt to bring together the fields of task-based language teaching (TBLT) and second language pragmatics by exploring how the teaching and assessment of pragmatics can be integrated into TBLT. The TBLT-pragmatics connection is illustrated in a variety of… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 10] 2018. x, 312 pp.
Usage-inspired L2 Instruction: Researched pedagogy
Edited by Andrea E. Tyler, Lourdes Ortega, Mariko Uno and Hae In Park
This book presents a set of compelling essays collectively making a persuasive case for why a usage-based perspective on language is fast becoming a leading theoretical framework for investigating second language (L2) learning and the foundation for effective, innovative, engaging pedagogy. Drawing… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 49] 2018. xvii, 324 pp.
Applied Linguistics Perspectives on CLIL
Edited by Ana Llinares and Tom Morton
This book represents the first collection of studies on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) which brings together a range of perspectives through which CLIL has been investigated within Applied Linguistics. The book aims to show how the four perspectives of Second Language Acquisition… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 47] 2017. vi, 317 pp.
Expanding Individual Difference Research in the Interaction Approach: Investigating learners, instructors, and other interlocutors
Edited by Laura Gurzynski-Weiss
Expanding Individual Difference Research in the Interaction Approach: Investigating learners, instructors, and other interlocutors demonstrates why investigating the individual differences of all interlocutors with whom learners interact – including peer and heritage learners, instructors,… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 16] 2017. xii, 327 pp.
Input-based Tasks in Foreign Language Instruction for Young Learners
Natsuko Shintani
The book examines how task-based language teaching (TBLT) can be carried out with young beginner learners in a foreign language context. It addresses how TBLT can be introduced and implemented in a difficult instructional context where traditional teaching approaches are entrenched. The book… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 9] 2016. xi, 199 pp.
Language-Learner Computer Interactions: Theory, methodology and CALL applications
Edited by Catherine Caws and Marie-Josée Hamel
This book focuses on learner-computer interactions (LCI) in second language learning environments drawing largely on sociocultural theories of language development. It brings together a rich and varied range of theoretical discussions and applications in order to illustrate the way in which LCI can… read more
Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing
I.S.P. Nation
Word lists lie at the heart of good vocabulary course design, the development of graded materials for extensive listening and extensive reading, research on vocabulary load, and vocabulary test development. This book has been written for vocabulary researchers and curriculum designers to describe… read more[Not in series, 208] 2016. xiv, 210 pp.
Second-language Discourse in the Digital World: Linguistic and social practices in and beyond the networked classroom
Ilona Vandergriff
Second-language Discourse in the Digital World illustrates a new, practice-driven approach to technology in second-language (L2) learning that begins with what L2 users do when they connect with others online. With its rich set of examples from a number of different languages and a variety of… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 46] 2016. xiii, 270 pp.
Spanish Learner Corpus Research: Current trends and future perspectives
Edited by Margarita Alonso-Ramos
The aim of this book is to present a comprehensive picture of the current state of Spanish learner corpus research (SLCR), which makes it unique, since no other monograph has focused on collecting research dealing with learner corpora of any language other than English. In addition to an… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 78] 2016. vi, 337 pp.
Domains and Directions in the Development of TBLT: A decade of plenaries from the international conference
Edited by Martin Bygate
This volume brings together contemporary position statements and research reviews which were originally presented as Plenary Addresses to the Biennial International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, between 2005 and 2013. It thus assembles up-to-date reflections, critiques, and… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 8] 2015. xxiv, 325 pp.
Elicited Metaphor Analysis in Educational Discourse
Edited by Wan Wan and Graham Low
The ability to recognise, discuss and evaluate one’s educational beliefs and working practices in metaphoric terms has for several years been seen as a highly valuable tool for increasing self-awareness, facilitating learning (or teaching), and/or predicting behaviour. This is the first edited book… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 3] 2015. ix, 329 pp.
Interaction and Second Language Development: A Vygotskian perspective
Rémi A. van Compernolle
This volume addresses the role of communicative interaction in driving various dimensions of second language development from the perspective of Vygotskian sociocultural psychology. Emphasizing the dialectical relationship between the external-social world and individual mental functioning, the… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 44] 2015. xi, 215 pp.
Lexical Input Processing and Vocabulary Learning
Joe Barcroft
This book focuses on theory, research, and practice related to lexical input processing (lex-IP), an exciting field exploring how learners allocate their limited processing resources when exposed to words and lexical phrases in the input. Unit 1 specifies parameters of lex-IP research among other… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 43] 2015. xi, 194 pp.
Pronunciation Fundamentals: Evidence-based perspectives for L2 teaching and research
Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro
The emergence of empirical approaches to L2 pronunciation research and teaching is a powerful fourth wave in the history of the field. Authored by two leading proponents of evidence-based instruction, this volume surveys both foundational and cutting-edge empirical work and pinpoints its… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 42] 2015. xiii, 208 pp.
Motivation and Foreign Language Learning: From theory to practice
Edited by David Lasagabaster, Aintzane Doiz and Juan Manuel Sierra
Motivation is a key aspect of second language learning. There is no doubt that abstract models are basic to gain theoretical insights into motivation; however, teachers and researchers demand comprehensible explanations for motivation that can help them to improve their everyday teaching and… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 40] 2014. viii, 190 pp.
Pedagogical Grammar
Casey Keck and YouJin Kim
This book provides a comprehensive overview of pedagogical grammar research and explores its implications for the teaching of grammar in second language classrooms. Drawing on several research domains (e.g., corpus linguistics, task-based language teaching) and a number of theoretical orientations… read more[Not in series, 190] 2014. ix, 245 pp.
Processing Perspectives on Task Performance
Edited by Peter Skehan
Understanding how second language task-based performance can be raised is vital for progress with task-based approaches to instruction. The chapters in this volume all attempt to advance this understanding, and do so within a viewpoint which assumes limited attentional capacities and accounts for… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 5] 2014. xii, 266 pp.
Task-Based Language Learning – Insights from and for L2 Writing
Edited by Heidi Byrnes and Rosa M. Manchón
The book seeks to enlarge the theoretical scope, research agenda, and practices associated with TBLT in a two-way dynamic, by exploring how insights from writing might reconfigure our understanding of tasks and, in turn, how work associated with TBLT might benefit the learning and teaching of… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 7] 2014. xi, 312 pp.
Innovative Research and Practices in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism
Edited by John W. Schwieter
This volume brings together theoretical perspectives and empirical studies in second language (L2) acquisition and bilingualism and discusses their implications for L2 pedagogy. The book is organized into three sections that focus on prominent linguistic and cognitive theories and together provide… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 38] 2013. xiii, 335 pp.
Linguistics for Intercultural Education
Edited by Fred Dervin and Anthony J. Liddicoat
The issue of intercultural learning has been tackled, amongst others, in the fields of education, language education and applied linguistics. In spite of the extensive literature on the subject, there is still much which needs to be done to address the ways in which linguistics itself can… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 33] 2013. vi, 201 pp.
Technology in Interlanguage Pragmatics Research and Teaching
Edited by Naoko Taguchi and Julie M. Sykes
Technology-informed approaches to L2 research and teaching have prompted great interest by both researchers and practitioners alike. This book highlights the relationship between digitally-mediated technologies and second language pragmatics by presenting exemplary applications of technology for… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 36] 2013. viii, 276 pp.
Dimensions of L2 Performance and Proficiency: Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in SLA
Edited by Alex Housen, Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder
Research into complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) as basic dimensions of second language performance, proficiency and development has received increased attention in SLA. However, the larger picture in this field of research is often obscured by the breadth of scope, multiple objectives and lack… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 32] 2012. xii, 305 pp.
Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education: Gaining Insights into English-Medium Instruction at European Universities. AILA Review, Volume 25
Edited by Ute Smit and Emma Dafouz
This volume explores a highly topical applied linguistic issue: the spreading of English-medium courses and programmes in Higher Education. Hailed as a ticket to internationalisation, English is fast becoming a popular educational medium also at universities with a long-standing tradition of using… read more[AILA Review, 25] 2012. iii, 103 pp.
Second Language Acquisition Abroad: The LDS Missionary Experience
Edited by Lynne Hansen
This volume brings together for the first time a collection of studies devoted to missionary language learning and retention. Introductory chapters provide historical perspectives on this population and on language teaching philosophy and practice in the LDS tradition. The empirical studies which… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 45] 2012. x, 268 pp.
Task-Based Language Teaching from the Teachers' Perspective: Insights from New Zealand
Martin East
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is being encouraged as part of a major overhaul of the entire school languages curriculum in New Zealand. However, teachers often struggle with understanding what TBLT is, and how to make TBLT work in classrooms. Using the stories that emerged from a series of… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 3] 2012. xix, 259 pp.
Task-Based Language Teaching in Foreign Language Contexts: Research and implementation
Edited by Ali Shehadeh and Christine A. Coombe
This volume extends the Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice books series by deliberately exploring the potential of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in a range of EFL contexts. It is specifically devoted to providing empirical accounts about how TBLT practice is being… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 4] 2012. xix, 364 pp.
Applied Folk Linguistics. AILA Review, Volume 24
Edited by Antje Wilton and Martin Stegu
Within applied linguistics, a number of approaches consider the ideas that lay people have about language-related topics. Taking those ideas as a serious object of research is essentially what can be subsumed under the folk linguistics approach. This issue of the AILA Review connects the study of… read more[AILA Review, 24] 2011. iii, 115 pp.
Learning-to-Write and Writing-to-Learn in an Additional Language
Edited by Rosa M. Manchón
This book is a pioneer attempt to bridge the gap between the fields of second language acquisition (SLA) and second and foreign language (L2) writing. Its ultimate aim is to advance our understanding of written language learning by compiling a collection of theoretical meta-reflections and… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 31] 2011. xii, 263 pp.
Applied Cognitive Linguistics in Second Language Learning and Teaching. AILA Review, Volume 23
Edited by Jeannette Littlemore and Constanze Juchem-Grundmann
This volume of the AILA Review focuses on the substantial contribution Cognitive Linguistics can make to language teaching. After almost three decades of empirical research into the motivated aspects of language, Cognitive Linguistic findings are gradually being applied to Second Language… read more[AILA Review, 23] 2010. 178 pp.
Language Use and Language Learning in CLIL Classrooms
Edited by Christiane Dalton-Puffer, Tarja Nikula and Ute Smit
This volume explores a highly topical issue in second and foreign language education: the spreading practice in mainstream education to teach content subjects through a foreign language. CLIL has been enthusiastically embraced as a language enrichment measure in many contexts and finally research… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 7] 2010. x, 295 pp.
Speech Act Performance: Theoretical, empirical and methodological issues
Edited by Alicia Martínez-Flor and Esther Usó-Juan
Speech acts are an important and integral part of day-to-day life in all languages. In language acquisition, the need to teach speech acts in a target language has been demonstrated in studies conducted in the field of interlanguage pragmatics which indicate that the performance of speech acts may… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 26] 2010. xiv, 277 pp.
Electronic Discourse in Language Learning and Language Teaching
Edited by Lee B. Abraham and Lawrence Williams
New technologies are constantly transforming traditional notions of language use and literacy in online communication environments. While previous research has provided a foundation for understanding the use of new technologies in instructed second language environments, few studies have… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 25] 2009. x, 346 pp.
Task-Based Language Teaching: A reader
Edited by Kris Van den Branden, Martin Bygate and John M. Norris
Over the past two decades, task-based language teaching (TBLT) has gained considerable momentum in the field of language education. This volume presents a collection of 20 reprinted articles and chapters representative of work that appeared during that period. It introduces readers – graduate… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 1] 2009. ix, 512 pp.
Dictionary Use in Foreign Language Writing Exams: Impact and implications
Martin East
This book provides an in-depth analysis of what happens when intermediate level learners of a foreign language use a bilingual dictionary when writing. Dictionaries are frequently promoted to people learning a foreign language. Nevertheless, teachers often talk about their students’ inability to… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 22] 2008. xiii, 228 pp.
ESP in European Higher Education: Integrating language and content
Edited by Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez and Christine A. Räisänen
The Bologna Reform has been implemented in a large part of the European Union and it is time to take a short pause to reflect over some of the lessons learned up to now. The aim of this book is to share experiences and reflections on English for Specific Purposes pedagogy in Western European higher… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 4] 2008. vi, 285 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 8 (2008)
Edited by Leah Roberts, Florence Myles and Annabelle David
The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more[EUROSLA Yearbook, 8] 2008. 311 pp.
Learner and Teacher Autonomy: Concepts, realities, and response
Edited by Terry Lamb and Hayo Reinders
This edited volume offers a cohesive account of recent developments across the world in the field of learner and teacher autonomy in languages education. Drawing on the work of eminent researchers of language learning and teaching, it explores at both conceptual and practical levels issues related… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 1] 2008. vii, 286 pp.
Mediating Discourse Online
Edited by Sally Magnan Pierce
Information and communication technology is transforming our notion of literacy. In the study of second language learning, there is an acute need to understand how learners collaborate in mediating discourse online. This edited volume offers essays and research studies that lead us to question the… read more[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 3] 2008. vii, 364 pp.
Multilingualism and Minority Languages: Achievements and challenges in education. AILA Review, Volume 21
Edited by Jasone Cenoz and Durk Gorter
This volume includes research by specialists in minority languages and multilingual education from five European regions (Basque Country, Catalonia, Friesland, Ireland and Wales). In their educational contexts, the minority languages discussed are in contact with other, stronger languages which are… read more[AILA Review, 21] 2008. 110 pp.
Discourse in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Classrooms
Christiane Dalton-Puffer
The label CLIL stands for classrooms where a foreign language (English) is used as a medium of instruction in content subjects. This book provides a first in-depth analysis of the kind of communicative abilities which are embodied in such CLIL classrooms. It examines teacher and student talk at… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 20] 2007. xii, 330 pp.
Linguistic inequality in scientific communication today: What can future applied linguistics do to mitigate disadvantages for non-anglophones?. AILA Review, Volume 20
Edited by Augusto Carli and Ulrich Ammon
This volume is dedicated to the implications and consequences of the almost exclusive use of English as the language of scientific communication. While until the end of the Seventies of the last century, scientific communication was characterized by a high degree of shared multilingualism, a… read more[AILA Review, 20] 2007. 137 pp.
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 4 (2004)
Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen, Michael Sharwood Smith, Antonella Sorace and Mitsuhiko Ota
[EUROSLA Yearbook, 4] 2004. iv, 274 pp.