International Student Transitions
Given the rising number of international students, the consideration of new approaches to English language development is vital. This volume introduces a framework to guide institutions in examining their views and beliefs regarding language acquisition and approaches to success.
Native-speakerism in English Language Teaching
The first large-scale study of native-speakerism in China’s ELT. This critical examination reveals how the ideology is enacted and legitimized through the attitudes of students, teachers, and administrators toward language, culture, and teaching methods.
Teaching Business, Technical and Academic Writing Online and Onsite
A must-have handbook for undergraduate and graduate teachers. Drawing on three decades of experience, this guide offers best practices for instructing students in writing proposals, reports, and academic papers, with specific strategies for remote teaching in a post-COVID world.
This book covers contemporary topics, approaches, and methodologies in education, focusing on recent developments in pre-service teacher education. It is an essential resource for undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students and researchers.
This book covers innovative grammar teaching for modern EFL/ESL students. It compares traditional and new methods, revealing their advantages and disadvantages, and provides a variety of activities to help teachers practice key grammatical patterns.
Transforming Computing Education with Problem-Based Learning
This book argues that Problem-Based Learning (PBL) can develop professional computing competencies. It proposes a methodology to implement PBL in a manageable way and reports on teaching and learning experiences, providing a realistic picture of this methodology.
This book reports on a large-scale study using integrated reading-into-writing tasks to improve academic reading. It offers practical insights into reading processes, making it essential for applied linguists, EAP instructors, and language assessors.
Second Language Teaching in the Digital Era
A guide to second language teaching in the digital era, this book merges theory and practice. It covers approaches for digital learners and presents case studies on applying and evaluating innovative technologies.
Explore diverse perspectives on online and remote language teaching. Drawing on lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, its findings can be applied across different levels and languages, making it an essential resource for teachers, researchers, and students.
The brain is a muscle; a growth mindset strengthens it by rewiring neural circuits. This book provides the tools and roadmap required to bring this pedagogy into the classroom and develop a culture where students believe that ‘with practice and hard work, I can do better.’
Resolving Classroom Management and School Leadership Issues in ELT
Experienced teachers use action research to examine problems in leadership and management. This volume features work by UAE researchers on classroom issues and broader leadership matters, concluding with a rare retrospective on their empowering investigations.
Contrastive Phraseology
This collection of essays offers a comprehensive, modern analysis of phrasemes for researchers, teachers, translators, and lexicographers. A contrastive approach outlines divergences between languages, from major ones to less-investigated ones like Ukrainian, Georgian, and Thai.
These eight short stories illustrate how great writers help us see the world in new ways. The book integrates literary, communicative, and critical thinking skills, combining listening, reading, speaking, and writing. Ideal for EFL/ESL students and teachers.
This book explores international students’ adaptation to academic writing, introducing new concepts of adjustment. It offers a dialogical pedagogic model for mutual adaptation, arguing that adjustment is a shared responsibility between students and academics.
Focus on CLIL
This book analyses the changes that take place in a CLIL classroom in secondary education, where a foreign language is used as a medium of instruction. It will raise teachers’ awareness of these changes and help them understand the CLIL process.
This volume is for Language Teacher Trainers (LTTs), lecturers, and experienced teachers aspiring to the role. It offers the main issues, tools, and research for their daily practice and professional development, with suggestions for academic students.
Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change
This collection of studies focuses on the rapid changes from Old to Middle English. With contributions from various fields and theoretical standpoints, it is essential for scholars and students of historical linguistics and the medieval history of English.
Enacting English across Borders
Emergent researchers challenge misconceptions about teaching English in a globalised world. Drawing on Asian contexts, these studies critique existing assumptions, highlight inconsistencies in the field of ELT, and provide suggestions to address these issues.
This book tackles intercultural language teaching and the use of information and communication technology in the EFL classroom. A pioneering study, its results offer materials writers, software designers, and EFL teachers criteria to evaluate CALL software.
This volume probes how space and gaze are tied in with social constructions of gender relations. It considers the gendered body, the queer gaze, the relationship between body and memory, the memory of war, monstrosity, and also domestic and hybrid spaces as key concepts.