Applied Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication's 40 chapters are organized within three sections to provide a broad and comprehensive overview of the role that linguistics plays within health communication research and its applications...

The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics provides a timely overview of a dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. Bringing together experts in the key areas of development and change, the handbook is structured around six themes which take the reader through building a..

The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes provides an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive introduction to English for Academic Purposes (EAP), covering the main theories, concepts, contexts and applications of this fast growing area of applied linguistics. Forty-four chapters a..

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication constitutes a comprehensive introduction to the multidisciplinary field of intercultural communication, with a particular emphasis on the language dimension, and draws on the expertise of leading scholars from diverse backgrounds...

This is the first comprehensive overview of language awareness, comprising up-to-date reviews of both established and innovative themes by experts and organized around the 3 different perspectives of language awareness: language teaching & teachers; language learning & learners; and areas less direc..

By viewing pedagogical interaction through the lens of conversation analysis, this volume lays the groundwork for the three principles of competence, complexity and contingency. The author explores these principles and how they inform what makes a good teacher, how people learn and why certain pedag..

By viewing pedagogical interaction through the lens of conversation analysis, this volume lays the groundwork for the three principles of competence, complexity and contingency. The author explores these principles and how they inform what makes a good teacher, how people learn and why certain pedag..

Arguing that writing teachers need to enable students to recognize, negotiate with, deconstruct, and transcend national, racial, ethnic, and linguistic boundaries, this volume proposes a "transnational" framework as an alternative approach to literacy education and as a vital component to cultivatin..

Arguing that writing teachers need to enable students to recognize, negotiate with, deconstruct, and transcend national, racial, ethnic, and linguistic boundaries, this volume proposes a "transnational" framework as an alternative approach to literacy education and as a vital component to cultivatin..

Assuming no knowledge of the field, this book promotes a practical understanding of language testing using examples from a variety of languages...

Assuming no knowledge of the field, this book promotes a practical understanding of language testing using examples from a variety of languages...

This reissue will include a new foreword and an afterword which will address the original need for the book and developments which have occurred since publishing the book...