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Approaches to Specialised Discourse in Higher Education and Professional Contexts
Approaches to Specialised Discourse in Higher Education and Professional Contexts brings together a number of studies by various authors in the common field of languages for specific purposes (LSP). This area faces a major challenging need to work with both specialised content and language, a complex combination which can be discouraging to many a language teacher from a traditional philological background. In the introduction to this volume, Dr. Martin Hewings asks how these teachers, as mere onlookers on specialist areas in higher education and the professions, are successfully to teach students communication skills. The answer is most probably contained in no single approach or scope, but...
Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation in Bilingual and Second Language Teacher Education
The book provides a comprehensive overview of international pedagogical approaches, research, innovation experiences, and best practices in bilingual and second language education to enhance bilingual teacher education programs. The book clearly outlines the need for an interdisciplinary and interconnected approach to effecting successful bilingual teacher education programs. Featuring practical examples from a wide range of geographic contexts throughout, the volume comprises diverse pedagogical approaches to bilingual and second language teacher education, bilingual and plurilingual education, storytelling, digital storytelling and digital technology, and content and language integrated le...
Demystifying Corpus Linguistics for English Language Teaching
The aim of this edited volume is to demystify corpus linguistics for use in English language teaching (ELT). It advocates the inclusion of corpus linguistics in the classroom as part of an approach to ELT in which students engage with naturally occurring language. The first chapter provides a basic but essential introduction to corpus linguistics, including sections on corpora and corpus methods, and this is followed by a review of the use of corpus linguistics in ELT. Chapters on the traditional ELT strands of skills, vocabulary and grammar as well as chapters on pluricentric approaches (on language and culture, World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca) flow naturally from the second ...
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Current Trends in the Development and Teaching of the four Language Skills
Current Trends in the Development and Teaching of the four Language Skills builds connections from theory in the four language skills to instructional practices. It comprises twenty-one chapters that are grouped in five sections. The first section includes an introductory chapter which presents a communicative competence framework developed by the editors in order to highlight the key role the four skills play in language learning and teaching. The next four sections each represent a language skill: Section II is devoted to listening, Section III to speaking, Section IV to reading and Section V to writing. In order to provide an extensive treatment of each of the four skills, each section st...
Teaching Communication Across Disciplines for Professional Development, Civic Engagement, and Beyond
This volume addresses teaching and research across disciplines, communication and identity development, and the centrality of communication in our quickly changing world. Contributors convey the social and global need, value, and responsibility of communication instruction across disciplines.
Web-Based Learning Technologies in the Studies of English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education
This book explores the transformative power of Web-based learning technologies in higher education with a focus on English for Specific Purposes (ESP). It delves into the evolutionary journey of ESP alongside with the development of World Wide Web and its technologies. It traces the development of learning theories and presents the latest typologies of Web-based learning technologies. The overviews of research literature published from 2013 to 2021, including the COVID-19 period, uncover the evolving landscape and potential of Web-based technologies in ESP studies in higher education. Presenting results from quasi-experimental research conducted in two higher education institutions in Lithuania, the book highlights the effectiveness of the Web-based learning technology CmapTools in enhancing ESP students’ learning achievements, particularly in ESP vocabulary acquisition. Useful and relevant for ESP researchers and practitioners seeking research evidence-based strategies, it narrows a wide gap in the literature, providing practical recommendations for both novice and experienced university teachers.
Teaching Languages to Young Learners
This book will develop readers' understanding of children are being taught a foreign language.
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