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Language Perception Development
This chapter aims to address the role that discrimination plays in infant language development, considering experimental evidence of infants’...
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The Development of Young Learners’ Language Awareness
There is very scant research about young learners’ language awareness, yet this age group has grown in number and relevance in the last two decades...
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First Language Acquisition
Throughout history, innovative educators have looked to L1 acquisition for inspiration for teaching a second language. A good place to start is...
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Technology-Enhanced Language Teacher Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences of Southeast Asian English Language Teachers
This chapter reports findings of a study conducted to investigate the technology-enhanced language teacher development (LTD) practices of Southeast...
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Practiced Language Policy in Family Language Policy Research
This chapter examines the concept of ‘practiced language policy’ in the context of the sociolinguistic subfield of ‘Family Language Policy’ (FLP)....
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Chinese Language Resources Data Collection, Linguistic Analysis, Annotation and Language Processing
Based on the accumulation of research experience and knowledge over the past 30 years, this volume lays out the research issues posed by the...
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Communicative Language Teaching
The 1970s saw the emergence of Communicative Language Teaching which was widely considered to be a reaction to the more mechanical pedagogies of...
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The Development of Vocabulary Through a CLIL Approach in a Literature Module in an English Language Teacher Education Programme
This paper explores the implementation of a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach to deliver a module on Literature as part of an...
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The Origin of Language
Aristotle defined language as an activity that links sound and meaning, and requires therefore the coordination of two distinct systems: a phonetic...
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Teacher Cognition and Professional Development of English Language Teachers
Teacher cognitionTeacher cognition has evolved into a broad area of research in education, especially language teacher education. It refers to a wide...
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Virtual Peer Mentoring for Language Teacher Professional Development: A Framework Towards the Aotearoa/New Zealand Context
This chapter investigates how a virtual peer mentoring (VPM) programme can be effectively designed to enhance language teacher professional...
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Introduction: What Can Linguistics and Language(s) Contribute to Development Practices?
Language use and language choice play a crucial role in achieving development goals and in development work. This chapter calls for a deeper...
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Effects of parents’ questioning and feedback strategies in shared reading on Children’s language development
This study aims to compare the effects of questioning with minimal evaluation (PE) and prompt-evaluate-expand-repeat (PEER) used in dialogic reading...
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Language Contact
English has been in contact with many different languages, which have left various traces. In this chapter, we look at four of these language contact...
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The Language Certificate: Encouraging Foreign Language Proficiency for All University Students
Majoring (or minoring) in a foreign language has long been the standard way for students to have their proficiency recognized by the university. This...
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Teacher Motivation, Professional Development, and English Language Education
Teacher motivationTeacher motivation for professional developmentProfessional development is necessitated by the recent discourses of educational...
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Second Language Teacher Professional Development Technological Innovations for Post-Emergency Teacher Education
This edited book brings together documented evidence and theoretical propositions on the essential mediating role of digital technology in L2 teacher...
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Using Literature in the Language Classroom
Whereas Chapter 3 aimed to extend the literary repertoire, this section focuses on using literature in the language classroom. Here we deal first...
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The development of a labelled te reo Māori–English bilingual database for language technology
Te reo Māori (referred to as Māori), New Zealand’s indigenous language, is under-resourced in language technology. Māori speakers are bilingual,...
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Introducing Language Policy as Practice
This chapter introduces the conceptualisation of ‘language policy as practice’ and the ensuing notion of ‘practiced language policy’. It situates the...