1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching
The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching is the definitive reference volume for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students of Applied Linguistics, ELT/TESOL, and Language Teacher Education, and for ELT professionals engaged in in-service teacher development and/or undertaking academic study.
Progressing from ‘broader’ contextual issues to a ‘narrower’ focus on classrooms and classroom discourse, the volume’s interrelated themes focus on:
• ELT in the world: contexts and goals
• planning and organising ELT: curriculum, resources and settings
• methods and methodology: perspectives and practices
• second language learning and learners
• teaching language: knowledge, skills and pedagogy
• understanding the language classroom.
The Handbook’s 39 chapters are written by leading figures in ELT from around the world. Mindful of the diverse pedagogical, institutional and social contexts for ELT, they convincingly present the key issues, areas of debate and dispute, and likely future developments in ELT from an applied linguistics perspective.
Throughout the volume, readers are encouraged to develop their own thinking and practice in contextually appropriate ways, assisted by discussion questions and suggestions for further reading that accompany every chapter.
List of tables and figures
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction: English language teaching in the contemporary world
Graham Hall
PART I
ELT in the world: contexts and goals
1 World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca: a changing
context for ELT
Philip Seargeant
2 Politics, power relationships and ELT
Alastair Pennycook
3 Language and culture in ELT
Claire Kramsch and Zhu Hua
4 ‘Native speakers’, English and ELT: changing perspectives
Enric Llurda
5 Educational perspectives on ELT: society and the individual;
traditional, progressive and transformative
Graham Crookes
PART II
Planning and organising ELT: curriculum, resources
and settings
6 Language curriculum design: possibilities and realities
Kathleen Graves
7 ELT materials: claims, critiques and controversies
John Gray
8 Dealing with the demands of language testing and assessment
Glenn Fulcher and Nathaniel Owen
9 Language teacher education
Karen E. Johnson
10 New technologies, blended learning and the ‘flipped classroom’
in ELT
Paul Gruba, Don Hinkelman and Mónica Stella Cárdenas-Claros
11 English for specific purposes
Sue Starfield
12 English for academic purposes
Helen Basturkmen and Rosemary Wette
13 English for speakers of other languages: language education
and migration
James Simpson
14 Bilingual education in a multilingual world
Kevin S. Carroll and Mary Carol Combs
PART III
Methods and methodology: perspectives and practices
15 Method, methods and methodology: historical trends and
current debates
Graham Hall
16 Communicative language teaching in theory and practice
Scott Thornbury
17 Task-based language teaching
Kris Van den Branden
18 Content and language integrated learning
Tom Morton
19 Appropriate methodology: towards a cosmopolitan approach
Adrian Holliday
PART IV
Second language learning and learners
20 Cognitive perspectives on classroom language learning
Laura Collins and Emma Marsden
21 Sociocultural theory and the language classroom
Eduardo Negueruela-Azarola and Próspero N. García
22 Individual differences
Peter D. MacIntyre, Tammy Gregersen and Richard Clément
23 Motivation
Martin Lamb
24 Learner autonomy
Phil Benson
25 Primary ELT: issues and trends
Janet Enever
26 Secondary ELT: issues and trends
Annamaria Pinter
PART V
Teaching language: knowledge, skills and pedagogy
27 Corpora in ELT
Ana Frankenberg-Garcia
28 Language Awareness
Agneta M-L. Svalberg
29 Teaching language as a system
Dilin Liu and Robert Nelson
30 Teaching language skills
Jonathan Newton
31 Teaching literacy
Amos Paran and Catherine Wallace
32 Using literature in ELT
Geoff Hall
PART VI
Focus on the language classroom
33 Complexity and language teaching
Sarah Mercer
34 Classroom talk, interaction and collaboration
Steve Walsh and Li Li
35 Errors, corrective feedback and repair: variations and
learning outcomes
Alison Mackey, Hae In Park and Kaitlyn M. Tagarelli
36 Questioning ‘English-only’ classrooms: own-language use in ELT
Philip Kerr
37 Teaching large classes in difficult circumstances
Fauzia Shamim and Kuchah Kuchah
38 Computer-mediated communication and language learning
Richard Kern, Paige Ware and Mark Warschauer
39 Values in the ELT classroom
Julia Menard-Warwick, Miki Mori, Anna Reznik and Daniel Moglen
Index
Biography
Graham Hall is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics/TESOL at Northumbria University, UK. He is author of Exploring English Language Teaching: Language in Action (2011; 2nd edition, 2017), which was the winner of the 2012 British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) book prize. He was editor of ELT Journal from 2013-17.
'English language teaching (ELT) is now an immensely complex field of research and practice. This volume admirably captures the scope of the major themes that must now underpin informed ELT. Researchers, teacher educators and teachers alike will gain immensely from being able to refer to such a comprehensive and authoritative collection.' Anne Burns, University of New South Wales, Australia
'Suitable for all readers looking to enhance their academic, professional and practical skills, this eclectic collection will provide much-needed material and inspiration.' Maja Milatovic, ANU College, Canberra, Australia, English Australia Journal
'... it will also no doubt, stimulate professional and academic reflection on the key issues facing ELT. I for one will be certainly using this Handbook with my post-graduate students although even undergraduates in the field of language would benefit considerably.' J.A. Foley, Assumption University, Thailand
'The editor of the volume has lined up an impressive array of accomplished scholars to help him do justice to the formidable task he has set himself to do. And, to be sure, the outcome is a truly great volume of papers of encyclopedic proportions that provides the reader with an up-to-date survey of key areas of research, both historically and currently of interest, to myriads of ELT professionals as well as other interested researchers in the field of applied linguistics.' Kanavillil Rajagopalan, Word
"... there is a lot that is edgy, informative, enlightening— and challenging. I especially like the discussion questions, related topics and further readings sections which, together with the references, end each article. This makes this ‘handbook’ a fantastic jumping-off point for further study and connection-making."
Jeremy Harmer, ELT Journal, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 2019