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The Handbook of Language Teaching

Series: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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The Handbook of Language Teaching is an extensive reference guide authored by an international, interdisciplinary team. It encompasses a broad scope from psycholinguistic foundations to social, political, and educational contexts of language teaching. The book covers program design, materials development, teaching techniques, teacher education, testing, assessment, and evaluation, with examples drawn from multiple languages around the world.
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This handbook is essential for language teaching professionals, educational researchers, teacher educators, and advanced students in applied linguistics seeking comprehensive insight into language instruction across diverse linguistic and cultural contexts.

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Bringing together an international team of specialists from the fields of applied linguistics, second language acquisition, linguistics, education, and psychology, The Handbook of Language Teaching is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference guide.

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Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, this Handbook is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference guide to language teaching.

A comprehensive reference work on language teaching, which combines the latest research findings, coverage of core topics, and examples of teaching experience from a variety of languages and settings:

  • Provides a unique breadth of coverage, including: the psycholinguistic underpinnings of language learning; social, political, and educational contexts; programme design; materials writing and course design; teaching and testing; teacher education; and assessment and evaluation.
  • Offers a balanced evaluation of the major positions and approaches, including examining the increasingly important social and political context of language teaching.
  • Written by an international and interdisciplinary group of authors from a dozen different countries; English is only one of the many languages used as examples throughout the volume.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition praises the handbook for offering state-of-the-art, research-based analysis of current knowledge in language teaching. It highlights the book's strength in addressing new and rapidly emerging issues and its diverse topical coverage.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781444350029

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 July 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

  • Edited by Michael H. Long
  • Edited by Catherine J. Doughty
  • Edited by Catherine J. Doughty
  • Edited by Michael H. Long

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 38.0mm

Width: 168.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 1225g

Pages: 832

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About the Author

Michael H. Long is Professor of Second Language Acquisitionin the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at theUniversity of Maryland. Recent publications include The Handbookof Second Language Acquisition, co-edited with CatherineDoughty (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003), Second Language NeedsAnalysis (2005), and Problems in Second LanguageAcquisition (2007). Catherine J. Doughty is Senior Research Scientist andSecond Language Acquisition Area Director at the Center for theAdvanced Study of Language at the University of Maryland, and is anaffiliate Professor of Second Language Acquisition at theUniversity of Maryland. She is co-editor (with Michael Long) ofThe Handbook of Second Language Acquisition(Wiley-Blackwell, 2003).

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