Bücher der Reihe ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

Presents theoretical approaches to leadership and practical skills that leaders in English language education need. This book covers the roles and characteristics of leaders, and skills for leading ELT leadership in practice.

Globalization, migration, and the spread of English have resulted in a great diversity of social and educational contexts in which English learning is taking place. This volume specifically designed for language teachers, provides links between sociolinguistic concepts and language pedagogy.

Covers idiom use, learning, and teaching. This work approaches the topic with a balance of theory and research in cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, and sociolinguistics combined with informed teaching practices. It also includes discussion of idiom definition, classification, usage patterns, and functions.

Demonstrates the connection between language and gesture, and why it is critical for research on second language acquisition to take into account the full spectrum of communicative phenomena. This volume includes chapters that focus on a variety of second-language contexts, including adult classroom and naturalistic learners.

Presents a range of views about language, learning, and teaching in English for Specific Purposes (ESP). This book aims to go beyond individual cases and practices to examine the approaches and ideas on which they are based.

Providing theoretical and practical information about heritage-language instruction in terms of curriculum design, learner needs, materials development, and assessment procedures, this book aims to promote research about heritage students in East Asian languages and improve the teaching of these students in various educational settings.

Talks about native English speakers teaching English as a global language in non-English speaking countries. Through analysis of naturally occurring dialogic encounters, this book examines the multifaceted ways in which teachers and students utilize diverse communicative resources to construct, display, and negotiate their identities.