Foreign Language Learning from the Perspective of Individual Well-being -- “Biasing for the Best”: Looking at New Elements in a Model of Language Learner Well-Being -- Polish Adolescents’ Perceptions of English and their Desire to Learn it -- Investigating Language Learning Motivation from an Ideal Language-self Perspective: Results of a Questionnaire Study -- Reading for Remembering: On …
This edited volume offers a series of state-of-the-art conceptual papers and empirical research studies which consider how contextual factors at multiple levels dynamically interact with individuals to influence how they go about the complex business of learning and using a second language.
Teaching Stephen King critically examines the works of Stephen King and several ways King can be incorporated into the high school and college classroom. The section on Variations on Horror Tropes includes chapters on the vampire, the werewolf, the undead monster, and the ghost. The section on Real Life Horror includes chapters on King's school shooting novella Rage, sexual violence, and coming…
Chapter 1 Introductions to Literacy -- Chapter 2 The Chinese Language -- Chapter 3 Chinese Elementary Education -- Chapter 4 English Education in the Chinese Classroom -- Chapter 5 Chinese on the Brain -- Chapter 6 Default Reading Strategies: English and Chinese -- Chapter 7 Reading against the stream: Using the wrong strategies to acquire L2 literacy -- Chapter 8 A better way: Teaching English…
Teaching EFL Writing in the 21st Century Arab World addresses a range of issues related to researching and teaching EFL writing in different countries in the Arab World including Egypt, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Tunisia, UAE and Yemen. Both theoretically and practically grounded, chapters within discuss the different contexts in which EFL writing is taught, from primary school to university. Th…
Preface -- Part I: Policy and Curriculum -- Chapter 1 The Past: A Review of Five Reviews -- Chapter 2 The Present: An Overview of Teaching Chinese Language in Singapore -- Chapter 3 The Future: New Directions of Singapore Chinese Language Teaching -- Part II: Practitioners' Potential and Challenges -- Chapter 4 Using ICT in Teaching Chinese Language: Practices and Challenges -- Chapter 5 Chines…
This book is a guide to current research and debate in the field of literacies practice and education. It provides both an historical and lifespan view of the field as well as an overview of research methodologies with first-hand examples from a range of researchers involved in literacy research.
Chapter 1 Taking the initiative to innovate: Pedagogies for Chinese as a foreign language -- Chapter 2 Australian Language Policy and the learning and teaching of Chinese -- Chapter 3 Principles and innovation design: CLIL units in Chinese -- Chapter 4 Fostering effective CFL education through autonomous learning: Learners' perspectives -- Chapter 5 Maximising language socialization and learni…
Trends, Issues and Challenges in Assessing Young Language Learners by Marianne Nikolov -- Do Developments in Assessment Represent the ‘Coming of Age’ of Young Learners English Language Teaching Initiatives? The International Picture by Shelagh Rixon -- A CEFR-Based Inventory of YL Descriptors: Principles and Challenges by Veronica Benigno and John de Jong -- A Framework for Young EFL Lear…
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Mediating assessment innovation: Why stakeholder perspectives matter -- Chapter 2:Assessing spoken proficiency: What are the issues? -- Chapter 3:Introducing a new assessment of spoken proficiency: Interact -- Chapter 4: Investigating stakeholder perspectives on Interact -- Chapter 5: The advantages and disadvantages of Interact -- Chapter 6:The disadva…