Applied Linguistics

Leading authors in the field of applied linguistics share their thinking and research in different areas of study. Many have won prestigious awards for their writing.

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A Cognitive Approach to Language Learning

Peter Skehan

This book addresses issues such as the relation of form to meaning, the relevance of SLA research, and the validity of task-based learning. It also contrasts universalist accounts of language learning and individual differences between learners.

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Oxford Applied Linguistics: A History of English Language Teaching

A.P.R. Howatt and H.G. Widdowson

This revised and updated history covers the Renaissance to the present day, covering all the important phases of the history of English language teaching from a global perspective.

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Analysing Learner Language

Rod Ellis and Gary Barkhuizen

This book provides a clear introduction to the main methods of analyzing samples of learner language by examining the theoretical and research bases for each.

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Applied Linguistics

Guy Cook

This book addresses the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding contemporary language use today, including intercultural communication, political persuasion, new technologies, the growth of English, language in education and foreign language teaching and learning.

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Applied Linguistics Journal

Research into language with relevance to real-world problems.

Applied Linguistics publishes research into language with relevance to real world problems. It promotes principled and multidisciplinary approaches to research on language-related concerns in the various fields encompassed by applied linguistics.

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Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics

Diane Larsen-Freeman and Lynne Cameron

This book introduces key concepts in complexity theory and demonstrates the applicability and usefulness of these concepts to a range of areas in applied linguistics, including first and second language development, language teaching, and discourse analysis.

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Context and Culture in Language Teaching

Claire Kramsch

This book focuses attention on cultural knowledge not just as a necessary aspect of communicative competence, but as an educational objective in its own right-as an end, as well as a means, of language learning.

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Controversies in Applied Linguistics

Barbara Seidlhofer

This book brings together a number of high-profile exchanges on controversial issues between scholars of opposing positions reacting to each other in print. It engages the reader in a critical evaluation of the points at issue.

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Conversational Interaction in Second Language Acquisition

A collection of empirical studies

Alison Mackey

This edited collection of empirical studies provides insights into a wide variety of issues at the center of current research into the relationship between conversational interaction and second language learning outcomes.

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Defining Issues in English Language Teaching

Henry Widdowson

This book looks at different attitudes to English and developments in its description, and it critically examines current proposals for the specification of course content and classroom methodology.

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