English language teaching in its social context : a reader

Candlin, Christopher. (Added Author). Mercer, Neil. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0415241227
Physical Description: print
xiv, 352 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge in association with Macquarie University and the Open University, 2001.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction / Christopher N. Candlin and Neil Mercer -- Pt. 1. How Is Language Learning Explained? 1. Second Language Learning: Key Concepts and Issues / Rosamond Mitchell and Florence Myles. 2. Factors Affecting Second Language Learning / Patsy M. Lightbown and Nina Spada. 3. Second Language Acquisition: Research and Language Pedagogy / Rod Ellis. 4. Comprehension and Production Strategies in Language Learning / Peter Skehan. 5. Constraints and Resources in Classroom Talk: Issues of Equality and Symmetry / Leo van Lier. 6. Language Acquisition or Language Socialisation in and through Discourse? Towards a Redefinition of the Domain of SLA / Celia Roberts. 7. The Social Context for Language Learning: a Neglected Situation? / Michael P. Breen -- Pt. 2. Strategies and Goals in the Classroom Context. 8. The Development of EFL Methodology / Paul Knight. 9. Beyond Methods / Jack C. Richards. 10. Focus on Form: A Design Feature in Language Teaching Methodology / Michael H. Long. 11. Teaching Grammar in Context / David Nunan. 12. Genre-Based Approaches to Writing and Beginning Adult ESL Learners / Anne Burns. 13. Critical Ethnography of a Sri Lankan Classroom: Ambiguities in Student Opposition to Reproduction through ESOL / A. Suresh Canagarajah. 14. Safe-Talk: Collusion in Apartheid Education / J. Keith Chick -- Pt. 3. Analysing teaching and learning. 15. Language for Teaching a Language / Neil Mercer. 16. Learning a New Register in a Second Language / Pauline Gibbons. 17. Doing-English-Lessons in the Reproduction or Transformation of Social Worlds? / Angel M. Y. Lin. 18. Evaluation of Classroom Interaction / Assia Slimani. 19. Navigating the Discourse: On What Is Learned in the Language Classroom / Michael P. Breen. 20. Recording and Transcribing Talk in Educational Settings / Joan Swann.