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This series highlights key topics in applied linguistics. Each book presents original research, either updating and re-thinking a traditional theme, or introducing important new concepts. Topics reflect the broad range of current interests in applied linguistics and include aspects of language acquisition, language teaching, learning and testing, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, discourse studies, and research methodologies. The volumes in the series are accessible to a wide audience and particularly relevant to students on graduate courses in applied linguistics and TESOL, as well as to researchers in these areas.

  • General Editors: Carol A. Chapelle, Iowa State University, Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham

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65 results in Cambridge Applied Linguistics

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Task-Based Language Education
  • From Theory to Practice
  • Edited by Kris van den Branden
  • Published online:
    05 May 2010
    Print publication:
    05 October 2006
  • Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been attracting the attention of researchers, curriculum developers, teacher trainers and language teachers for many years. However, much of the available literature and research has been from a psycholinguistic perspective, driven by the desire to understand how people acquire a second language. Far less research has been carried out as to whether TBLT works for real teachers and real learners in a classroom environment. This book aims to offer a unique contribution by uniting a discussion of task-based pedagogical principles with descriptions of their application to real life language education problems. It provides an account of the many challenges and obstacles that the implementation of TBLT raises and discusses the different options for overcoming them. The book contains a substantial body of research from Flanders, where the implementation of TBLT has been a nationwide project for fifteen years in primary, secondary and adult education.

Modelling and Assessing Vocabulary Knowledge
  • Edited by Helmut Daller, James Milton, Jeanine Treffers-Daller
  • Published online:
    04 May 2010
    Print publication:
    28 August 2007
  • Over the last 20 years vocabulary research has grown from a Cinderella subject to a position of some importance. Vocabulary is now considered integral to just about every aspect of language knowledge and is a lively and vital area of research and innovation. With this development have come standard and widely-used tests, such as vocabulary size and lexical richness measures, and commonly accepted metaphors, such as the mental lexicon as a web of words. Less widely known outside academic circles, however, is the extensive work on learners' lexis and the utility, reliability and validity of the tests we use to measure and investigate it. This volume brings together contributions from internationally-renowned researchers in this field to explain much of the background to study in this area. It introduces to a wider audience the concerns, the newest approaches and developments in the field of vocabulary research and testing.

Practice in a Second Language
  • Perspectives from Applied Linguistics and Cognitive Psychology
  • Robert DeKeyser
  • Published online:
    27 January 2010
    Print publication:
    12 March 2007
  • Practice as a necessity for learning a second language has been a tacit assumption among language teachers for quite some time; however, the concept has not been widely considered from a theoretical perspective until now. This volume of twelve original articles focuses on the topic, with attention to the four skill areas of reading, writing, listening and speaking. The contributors explore a number of questions including what kind of practice is most effective, in what contexts, and for what kinds of learners. This text will serve as a valuable resource and reference for second-language educators and researchers alike.

Second Language Needs Analysis
  • Edited by Michael H. Long
  • Published online:
    25 January 2010
    Print publication:
    18 October 2005
  • The studies in this volume explore needs analysis in the public, vocational and academic sectors, in contexts ranging from service encounters in coffee shops to foreign language needs assessment in the U.S. military. In each chapter, the authors explicitly discuss the methodology they employed, and in some cases also offer research findings on that methodology. Several studies are task-based. Contributions include work on English and other languages in both second and foreign language settings, as well as a comprehensive overview of methodological issues in needs analysis by the editor.

Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching
  • Edited by Sandra Lee McKay, Nancy H. Hornberger
  • Published online:
    22 July 2009
    Print publication:
    26 January 1995
  • This text provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers.This book provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers. Chapters cover the basic areas of sociolinguistics, including regional and social variations in dialects, language and gender, World English, and intercultural communication. Each chapter has been specially written for this collection by an individual who has done extensive research on the topic explored. This is the first introductory text to address explicitly the pedagogical implications of current theory and research in sociolinguistics. The book will also be of interest to any teachers with students from linguistically diverse backgrounds.

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