The Handbook of Language Teaching
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
1. Edition July 2011
824 Pages, Softcover
Handbook/Reference Book
Short Description
Bringing together an international team of specialists from the fields of linguistics, education, English, and psychology, The Handbook of Language Teaching is a wide-ranging reference guide. The chapters are structured into seven major sections including: the psycholinguistic underpinnings of language learning; social, political, and educational contexts; program design; materials writing and course design; teaching and testing; teacher education; and assessment and evaluation. The result is an invaluable resource for anyone involved in second or foreign language teaching, psycholinguistics, and applied linguistics.
Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, this Handbook is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference guide to language teaching.
* A comprehensive reference work on language teaching, which combines the latest research findings, coverage of core topics, and examples of teaching experience from a variety of languages and settings
* Provides a unique breadth of coverage, including: the psycholinguistic underpinnings of language learning; social, political, and educational contexts; program design; materials writing and course design; teaching and testing; teacher education; and assessment and evaluation
* Offers a balanced evaluation of the major positions and approaches, including examining the increasingly important social and political context of language teaching
* Written by an international and interdisciplinary group of authors from a dozen different countries; English is only one of the many languages used as examples throughout the volume
Catherine J. Doughty is Senior Research Scientist and Second Language Acquisition Area Director at the Center for the Advanced Study of Language at the University of Maryland, and is an affiliate Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland. She is co-editor (with Michael Long) of The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003).