Language and culture are concepts increasingly found at the heart of developments in applied linguistics and related fields. Taken together, they can provide interesting and useful insights into the nature of language acquisition and expression. In this volume, Joan Kelly Hall gives a perspective on the nature of language and culture looking at how the use of language in real-world situations helps us understand how language is used to construct our social and cultural worlds.The conceptual maps on the nature of language, culture and learning provided in this text help orient readers to some...
Language and culture are concepts increasingly found at the heart of developments in applied linguistics and related fields. Taken together, they can ...
Autonomy has become a keyword of language policy in education systems around the world, as the importance of independent learning and new technologies has grown.
Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, Teaching and Researching Autonomy provides an accessible and comprehensive critical account of the theory and practice of autonomy. Examining the history of the concept, it addresses important questions of how we can identify autonomy in language learning behaviours and how we can evaluate the wide variety of educational practices that have been designed to foster...
Autonomy has become a keyword of language policy in education systems around the world, as the importance of independent learning and new technolog...
Teaching and Researching Speaking provides an overview of the main approaches to researching spoken language and their practical application to teaching, classroom materials, and assessment. The history and current practices of teaching and researching speaking are presented through the lens of bigger theoretical issues about the object of study in linguistics, social attitudes to the spoken form, and the relationships between spoken and written language. A unique feature of the book is the way it clearly explains the nature of speaking and how it is researched and puts it into...
Teaching and Researching Speaking provides an overview of the main approaches to researching spoken language and their practical applicati...
Now in its third edition, Teaching and Researching Speaking provides an overview of the main approaches to researching spoken language and the practical application of these to teaching, classroom materials, and assessment. The book presents the history and current practices of teaching and researching speaking through the lens of bigger theoretical issues about the object of study in linguistics, social attitudes to the spoken form, and the relationships between spoken and written language. A unique feature of the book is the way it both clearly explains the nature of speaking and...
Now in its third edition, Teaching and Researching Speaking provides an overview of the main approaches to researching spoken language and t...
