ABSTRACT

This landmark volume provides a broad-based, comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research into second language teaching and learning. All authors are leading authorities in their areas of expertise. The chapters, all completely new for Volume 2, are organized in eight thematic sections:

  • Social Contexts in Research on Second Language Teaching and Learning
  • Second Language Research Methods
  • Second Language Research and Applied Linguistics
  • Research in Second Language Processes and Development
  • Methods and Instruction in Second Language Teaching
  • Second Language Assessment
  • Ideology, Identity, Culture, and Critical Pedagogy in Second Language Teaching and Learning
  • Language Planning and Policy.

Changes in Volume 2:

  • captures new and ongoing developments, research, and trends in the field
  • surveys prominent areas of research that were not covered in Volume 1
  • includes new authors from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America to broaden the Handbook’s international scope.

Volume 2 is an essential resource for researchers, faculty, teachers, and students in MA-TESL and applied linguistics programs, as well as curriculum and material developers.

part |172 pages

Social Contexts in Research on Second Language Teaching and Learning

chapter |18 pages

Social Practice and Register

Language as a Means of Learning

chapter |14 pages

Vocational ESL

chapter |16 pages

Research in English for Specific Purposes

Brian Paltridge and Sue Starfield

chapter |18 pages

World Englishes

Contexts and Relevance for Language Education*

part |81 pages

Second Language Research Methods

part |127 pages

Second Language Research and Applied Linguistics

part |158 pages

Research in Second Language Processes and Development

chapter |12 pages

Language Learning

An Ecological-Semiotic Approach

chapter |17 pages

Second Language Listening

Presage, Process, Product, and Pedagogy

chapter |19 pages

Out of My Orthographic Depth

Second Language Reading

chapter |16 pages

Grammar Teaching

Research, Theory, and Practice

part |160 pages

Methods and Instruction in Second Language Teaching

part |101 pages

Language Planning and Policy