A core guide for educators seeking to build a constructive reading environment. This book offers proven models, theories, and techniques to effectively design, introduce, and assess powerful reading tasks, enhancing your teaching abilities.
Sooner, Faster, Better Reading for All
Disadvantaged children fall months behind in reading and never catch up. This book offers a cost-free, 7-point plan to change this. It ensures all children, including those with dyslexia, can become confident readers by the end of Year 1 and critical readers later on.
This book investigates the global response to teaching languages online during the COVID-19 pandemic. It shares teachers’ first-hand narratives on the challenges and opportunities they faced, presenting practical solutions and good practices from around the world.
Critical Cultural Awareness
This book promotes understanding of stereotypes and suggests ways teachers can manage them by developing students’ critical cultural awareness. It provides a firm platform for the practical application of knowledge and skills when managing stereotypes in the classroom.
Teaching and Learning English in Japanese Classrooms
English instructors in Japan share practical solutions to classroom challenges. Chapters explore educational technology, learner autonomy, feedback, and new teaching approaches. An accessible guide to practitioner research for language teachers and trainers worldwide.
Teaching Translation and Interpreting
This book offers an up-to-date overview of current trends in teaching translation. The innovative articles will appeal to students, lecturers, researchers and professionals alike, offering universal conclusions that are applicable worldwide.
Young Learners Online
A guide to teaching young language learners online. Bridging theory and practice, this book offers key concepts, examples, and tips for effective online teaching. It’s an essential resource for pre-service and in-service teachers, trainers, and curriculum developers.
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a frontier of pedagogical research. This volume combines research from international CLIL experts with critical perspectives, deriving theoretical reflections from case studies for both academics and school instructors.
Current Issues in English Language Teaching and Learning
This unique volume offers an international perspective on English language teaching. It provides solutions to current ELT problems from global experts on topics like teacher training, classroom practice, new technologies, and learner language research.
Bilingualism and Minority Languages in Europe
This collection considers such issues as the cognitive, linguistic and emotional benefits of speaking two languages and concerns relating to identity in minority language areas. It underlines the significance of bilingualism when European minority languages are still spoken.
This collection of essays shares personal and professional stories by language teachers in diverse Australian contexts. See how their narratives shape classroom practice, offering a practical resource and case studies for teachers and educators.
L2 Writing Assessment
When reading and spelling problems are not detected early, they can become lifelong disabilities. Early intervention is the key. This book is a practical guide for educators to identify such problems and use active writing programmes for instruction and assessment.
Multidisciplinary Humane Perspectives on Education
How can education help humanity realize its full potential? This book addresses equality, inclusiveness, and conflicting pressures in education, arguing that it must make every member of the human community accountable to the others.
This book provides up-to-date perspectives on the implications of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) for language teaching. Leading scholars offer novel insights from recent research, presenting innovative projects and good practices for teacher education.
Master unpredictable English pronunciation. This book demystifies the rules of English sounds for non-native learners, helping you improve your speech. Includes practical exercises with corrections, making it an essential guide for both students and teachers.
Developments in Foreign Language Teaching
This book offers foreign language (FL) practitioners and educators practical, research-based ideas to develop their teaching skills and optimize student learning. Topics include vocabulary teaching, intercultural awareness, the use of literature, and reflective practice.
Being Bilingual in Borinquen
In Puerto Rico’s complex linguistic landscape, the voices of its people have been muted. This volume showcases twenty-five personal histories from language professionals, revealing their many routes to bilingualism and why one-size-fits-all policies fail.
Making a Difference
Discover how applied linguistics makes a difference in a changing world. Leading experts explore language’s role in migration, media, and policy. For students, teachers, and anyone interested in the real-world impact of language.
This study investigates the validity of the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) from the classroom to society. It addresses pedagogical issues in CSL teaching, provides implications for the HSK’s development, and helps test developers and users build assessment literacy.
This book brings together new studies in critical applied linguistics, language policy, and language learning. It offers critical views on language in society, from identity and justice to language policy in education and key teaching strategies.