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Through case studies from around the world, this book illustrates the opportunities and challenges facing families negotiating the issues of language maintenance and language learning in the home, The contributors utilize various ethnographic research tools to explore linguistic ideologies and practices of the family members in the home, illuminating how such ideologies and practices are shaped by macro-level societal processes in a range of diverse settings around the world.

Pushing past the typical genre and elements approach, this text explains how to integrate children¿s literature into and across the curriculum in effective, purposeful ways. The materials and practical strategies focus on issues that impact children¿s lives, building from students` personal experiences and cultural knowledge to using language to question the everyday world, analyze popular culture and media, understand how power relationships are socially constructed, and consider actions to take that promote social justice.

Pushing past the typical genre and elements approach, this text explains how to integrate children¿s literature into and across the curriculum in effective, purposeful ways. The materials and practical strategies focus on issues that impact children¿s lives, building from students` personal experiences and cultural knowledge to using language to question the everyday world, analyze popular culture and media, understand how power relationships are socially constructed, and consider actions to take that promote social justice.

Bringing together current research, analysis, and discussion of the role of corrective feedback in second language classroom teaching and learning, this volume bridges the gap between research and pedagogy by identifying principles of effective feedback strategies and how to use them successfully in classroom instruction.

Focusing on political aspects and pedagogical issues of second language writing instruction and testing in an international context, with contributions from authors working in 10 different countries, these chapters examine the uses and abuses of various writing-related assessments, and the policies that determine their form and use.

Focusing on political aspects and pedagogical issues of second language writing instruction and testing in an international context, with contributions from authors working in 10 different countries, these chapters examine the uses and abuses of various writing-related assessments, and the policies that determine their form and use.

Arguing that writing teachers need to enable students to recognize, negotiate with, deconstruct, and transcend national, racial, ethnic, and linguistic boundaries, this volume proposes a "transnational" framework as an alternative approach to literacy education and as a vital component to cultivating students as global citizens.

Arguing that writing teachers need to enable students to recognize, negotiate with, deconstruct, and transcend national, racial, ethnic, and linguistic boundaries, this volume proposes a "transnational" framework as an alternative approach to literacy education and as a vital component to cultivating students as global citizens.

Using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning, this guide for teachers and teacher trainees offers suggestions for helping learners at various levels of proficiency develop their reading and writing skills and fluency. It features applied principles, useful teaching techniques, and guidelines for testing and monitoring.

Timely and accessible, this edited volume brings together leading scholars to discuss methods for supporting reconciliation, peace, and sustainable and social change in English language teaching.

Timely and accessible, this edited volume brings together leading scholars to discuss methods for supporting reconciliation, peace, and sustainable and social change in English language teaching.

This seminal volume is a practical, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research on second and foreign language teaching and learning. Bringing together leading experts in the field, the contributors offer important perspectives on major, established, and emerging topics.