Language Teaching and Language Use in Non-Native Settings

From Theory to Practice

Edited By: Antoine Willy Ndzotom Mbakop, Nicoline Agbor Tabe

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From Cameroon to Turkey, this volume illuminates the gap between teaching norms and real-life language use. It underscores the limitations of current methods and provides well-matched answers to classroom problems for teachers, researchers, and educational policy makers.

From Cameroon to Turkey through Jordan, this short volume illuminates the discrepancy between stated language teaching norms and real-life language use in non-native settings. It…

From Cameroon to Turkey through Jordan, this short volume illuminates the discrepancy between stated language teaching norms and real-life language use in non-native settings. It underscores the limitations of teaching materials, styles, and methods with regard to learners’ communication needs, and provides well-matched answers to foreign language classroom problems.

This book will be of interest to language teachers and researchers who will gain an insight into the challenges of the foreign language class in different non-native milieus, and therefore enrich their teaching competence. Educational policy makers can also use it as a guide for designing contextually appropriate curricula and materials.

Antoine Willy Ndzotom Mbakop is Assistant Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Maroua, Cameroon. He is mainly interested in language use, which he has investigated as it applies to religion, education, and the family. His works have appeared in renowned journals including Journal of the Sociology of Language, International Journal of Multilingualism, Pragmatics and Society, Corpus Pragmatics, and Journal of Language and Education.

Nicoline Agbor Tabe is the author of the book Professionalising English Language Teaching in Cameroon, and is a Senior Lecturer in English Language/ELT and Head of the Division for Educational Development of the Higher Teachers’ Training College Bambili at the University of Bamenda, Cameroon. Her key research interest is classroom-based ELT, and she teaches courses in ELT/ESP, English grammar and lexicology, voices in the sociology of language, and research methodology.

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