Language and Education

Humor in the Classroom provides practical, research-based answers to questions that educational researchers and language teachers might have about the social and cognitive benefits that humor and language play afford in classroom discourse and additional language learning...

Language Awareness in the Classroom addresses the central educational question of the impact that explicit language knowledge has on learning and language learning...

Language Awareness in the Classroom addresses the central educational question of the impact that explicit language knowledge has on learning and language learning...

While there has been a lot of discourse at an academic level about various approaches to motivation, there have, to date, been few resources for the language teacher / teacher-trainer with their finger on the scholarly pulse.  This book aims to provide the link between theory and practice, with plen..

New Directions for Research in Foreign Language Education examines the challenges, opportunities and benefits of teaching and learning foreign languages, with a particular focus on languages other than English. This book looks at the socio-political dimension of language learning and teaching and th..

Posthumanist Applied Linguistics offers us alternative ways of thinking about the human predicament, with major implications for research, education and politics. Exploring the advent of the Anthropocene, new forms of materialism, and the boundaries between humans, other animals and objects, eight c..

Posthumanist Applied Linguistics offers us alternative ways of thinking about the human predicament, with major implications for research, education and politics. Exploring the advent of the Anthropocene, new forms of materialism, and the boundaries between humans, other animals and objects, eight c..

Process and Experience in the Language Classroom..

Process and Experience in the Language Classroom..

Reflections on Language Teacher Identity Research is the first book to present understandings of language teacher identity (LTI) from a broad range of research fields. Drawing on their personal research experience, 41 contributors locate LTI within their area of expertise by considering their concep..

Reflections on Language Teacher Identity Research is the first book to present understandings of language teacher identity (LTI) from a broad range of research fields. Drawing on their personal research experience, 41 contributors locate LTI within their area of expertise by considering their concep..

The ‘other’ languages of England — those which originate in South and East Asia, and Southern and Eastern Europe — are now important parts of everyday life in urban England. First published in 1985, this book gives detailed information about which languages are in widespread use among children and a..