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PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
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International Perspectives on
ELT Classroom Interaction
CHRIS JENKS, PAUL SEEDHOUSE
• Gathers together 11 empirical-based studies of
classroom interaction carried out in different
countries, including the USA, the UK, Kenya,
Sweden and China.
• A state-of-the-art literature review, as well
as chapters which provide key insights and
engagement priorities that will prove relevant to a
variety of learning and teaching contexts.
9781137340726
Blending Technologies in
Second Language Classrooms
PAUL GRUBA, DON HINKELMAN
• Introduces an approach for making principled
decisions about the use of technologies
specifically in applied linguistics.
• Research is grounded in the growing area of
‘blended learning’ that seeks to combine face-to-
face instruction with online-based interactions
to record students using a foreign language
productively.
9781137523327
Literature in Language
Education
GEOFF HALL
• State-of-the-art critical review of research into
literature in language education, of interest to
teachers of English and modern foreign languages.
• Includes prompts and principles for those who
wish to improve their own practice or to engage in
projects or research in this area.
9781137331830
Linguistic Ethnography
JULIA SNELL, SARA SHAW, FIONA COPLAND
• A collection that demonstrates the ways in
which established traditions and scholars have
come together under the umbrella of linguistic
ethnography to explore important questions about
how language and communication are used in
a range of settings and contexts, and with what
effect.
9781137529060
Language for Specific
Purposes
SANDRA GOLLIN-KIES, DAVID R. HALL,
STEPHEN H. MOORE
• Fully explicates current trends and best practices
in LSP, surveying the field with critical, insightful
commentary and analyses.
• Covers course areas such as planning,
implementation, assessment, pedagogy,
classroom management, professional
development and research – it is indispensable for
teachers, researchers and students.
9781403946409
The Palgrave Handbook of
Slavic Languages, Identities
and Borders
TOMASZ KAMUSELLA, MOTOKI NOMACHI,
CATHERINE GIBSON
• Analyses the creation of languages across
the Slavophone areas of the world and their
deployment for political projects and identity
building, mainly after 1989.
• Offers perspectives from a number of disciplines
such as sociolinguistics, socio-political history and
language policy.
9781137348388
The Construction of English
JOHN GRAY
• Takes the view that ELT global coursebooks, in
addition to being curriculum artefacts, are also
highly wrought cultural artefacts which seek to
make English meaningful in highly selective ways
and it argues that the textual construction (and
imaging) of English parallels the processes of
commodity promotion more generally.
9781137507242
Critical Discourse Analysis and
Cognitive Science
CHRISTOPHER HART
• Critical Discourse Analysis and Cognitive Science
advances a model for critical discourse analysis
which draws on evolutionary psychology and
cognitive linguistics, applied in a critical analysis of
immigration discourse. It will be of special interest
to students and researchers as a resource with
which to explore new perspectives in CDA.
9781137521613