Handbook of Practical Second Language Teaching and Learning

<p>This authoritative volume is a practical, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research on second and foreign language teaching and learning. </p><p>Thorough and reader-friendly, the Handbook is organized logically into six parts that address all major areas of L2/FL teaching and learning:</p><ul> <b> </b><p> </p> <li>Part I: Learning Contexts and Language Teaching covers the diverse populations of language learners, their needs, and the challenges they face </li> <b> </b><p> </p> <li>Part II: Curriculum and Instruction addresses curriculum and materials design, and includes exemplars of instructional approaches with wide applicability across contexts</li> <b> </b><p> </p> <li>Part III: Listening and Speaking overviews listening pedagogy, speaking skills, and pronunciation, among other key topics</li> <b> </b><p> </p> <li>Part IV: Reading and Writing includes chapters on all practical matters related to learning to write in another language, with attention to spelling, orthography, extensive reading, and more</li> <b> </b><p> </p> <li>Part V: Vocabulary and Grammar discusses assumptions and practical approaches on vocabulary and grammar instruction, with attention to important topics such as academic writing and multiword expressions</li> <b> </b><p> </p> <li>Part VI: Intercultural Communication and Pragmatics concludes the Handbook with an examination of language learning across social, cultural, and regional differences</li> </ul><p>Bringing together leading experts in the field, the contributors offer important perspectives on major, established, and emerging topics. Each chapter overviews important developments, key research, and considerations and applications for effective second language instruction. A well-rounded, readable, and up-to-date resource, the Handbook is a compendium of the ongoing changes, innovations, and practices in L2/FL teaching and learning. It is an essential resource for students, teachers, faculty, and professionals.</p> <p>Preface</p><p>Eli Hinkel</p><p>Part I. Learning Contexts and Language Teaching</p><p>Chapter 1. The Changing Landscape of English Language Teaching and Learning</p><p>David Nunan</p><p>Chapter 2. Second Language Literacy: Kindergarten to Grade 12</p><p>Reginald Arthur D’Silva and Lee Gunderson</p><p>Chapter 3. Teaching L2 Academic Language in K-12: A Contextual and Developmental </p><p>Perspective</p><p>Maria Estela Brisk</p><p>Chapter 4. English for Academic Purposes</p><p>Christine M. Tardy</p><p>Chapter 5. English for Specific Purposes: Classroom Needs Analysis</p><p>James Dean Brown</p><p>Chapter 6. Teaching English to Young Learners</p><p>Sue Garton and Serdar Tekin</p><p>Chapter 7. English as a Lingua Franca</p><p>Andy Kirkpatrick and Iris Schaller-Schwaner </p><p>Part II. Curriculum and Instruction</p><p>Chapter 8. Curriculum in Language Teaching</p><p>Kathleen Graves</p><p>Chapter 9. Materials Development for Language Learning: Ways of Connecting Practice and Theory in Coursebook Development and Use</p><p>Brian Tomlinson</p><p>Chapter 10. Content-Based Instruction: Innovations and Challenges</p><p>Marguerite Ann Snow</p><p>Chapter 11. Corpus Uses in Language Teaching</p><p>Eric Friginal and Ashleigh Cox</p><p>Chapter 12. Computer Assisted Language Learning</p><p>Greg Kessler</p><p>Chapter 13. Digital Literacies and Language Learning</p><p>Rodney H. Jones</p><p>Chapter 14. Teaching Online: Design for Engagement</p><p>Maggie Sokolik</p><p>Chapter 15. Professional Learning through Professional Development for Second </p><p>Language Teachers</p><p>MaryAnn Christison and Denise E. Murray</p><p>Part III. Listening and Speaking</p><p>Chapter 16. Teaching Listening: Dichotomies, Choices, and Practices</p><p>Anne Burns and Joseph Siegel</p><p>Chapter 17. Second Language Listening</p><p>Michael Rost and Steven Brown</p><p>Chapter 18. Teaching Speaking to Language Learners in the 21st Century</p><p>MaryAnn Christison</p><p>Chapter 19. Teaching Speaking in L2 Contexts</p><p>Willy A. Renandya and Minh Thi Thuy Nguyen</p><p>Chapter 20. Effective Pronunciation Teaching</p><p>Donna M. Brinton</p><p>Chapter 21. Pronunciation and Technology</p><p>John M. Levis and Ivana Rehman</p><p>Part IV. Reading and Writing</p><p>Chapter 22. Teaching and Learning English Spelling</p><p>Adam Brown</p><p>Chapter 23. L2 Writing: Toward a Theory-Practice Praxis</p><p>Lawrence Jun Zhang</p><p>Chapter 24. Feedback on L2 Student Writing: Current Trends and Future Directions</p><p>Dana R. Ferris </p><p>Chapter 25. Principles for Reading Instruction</p><p>William Grabe and Fredricka L. Stoller</p><p>Chapter 26. Building a Convergent Model of the Interlanguage Reading System</p><p>Barbara Birch</p><p>Chapter 27. Extensive Reading</p><p>Rob Waring</p><p>Part V. Vocabulary and Grammar</p><p>Chapter 28. Teaching and Learning Vocabulary</p><p>Paul Nation</p><p>Chapter 29. Re-Examining Some Conventional Assumptions in Vocabulary Teaching: </p><p>What Can We Learn from the Research?</p><p>Penny Ur</p><p>Chapter 30. Taking a Practical Approach to Academic Vocabulary in Second Language Teaching and Learning</p><p>Averil Coxhead and Thi My Hang Nguyen</p><p>Chapter 31. Teaching and Learning Multiword Expressions</p><p>Eli Hinkel</p><p>Chapter 32. Teaching Grammar for a Purpose in Academic Writing</p><p>Jan Frodesen</p><p>Chapter 33. The Grammar Choices that Matter in Academic Writing</p><p>Nigel A. Caplan</p><p>Part VI. Intercultural Communication and Pragmatics</p><p>Chapter 34. Principles of Teaching Intercultural Communication in TESOL</p><p>Lixian Jin and Martin Cortazzi</p><p>Chapter 35. Teaching and Learning Pragmatics </p><p>Naoko Taguchi</p>