Non-Native English Speaking Professionals in TESOL

Assessing Speaking

by Zainab Jaafar

An Introduction to Teaching English Learners in Elementary Schools: Three Workshops for Pre-Service Teachers

by Andrea Hellman

The volume contains materials - handouts and presentation slides - for three workshops (2.5 days) to introduce... more The volume contains materials - handouts and presentation slides - for three workshops (2.5 days) to introduce elementary teacher education candidates to teaching English learners in mainstream classes. The content is also appropriate for a 1-credit university course or school-based teacher professional development of elementary in-service teachers in WIDA states.

The NNEST Lens: Non Native English Speakers in TESOL

by Ahmar Mahboob

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The NNEST Lens invites you to imagine how the field of TESOL and applied linguistics can develop if we use the... more The NNEST Lens invites you to imagine how the field of TESOL and applied linguistics can develop if we use the multilingual, multicultural, and multinational perspectives of a NNEST (Non Native English Speakers in TESOL) lens to re-examine our assumptions, practices, and theories in the field. The NNEST lens as described in and developed through this volume is a lens of multilingualism, multinationalism, and multiculturalism through which NNESTs and NESTs—as classroom practitioners, researchers, and teacher educators—take diversity as a starting point in their understanding and practice of their profession. The 16 original contributions to this volume include chapters that question theoretical frameworks and research approaches used in studies in applied linguistics and TESOL, as well as chapters that share strategies and approaches to classroom teaching, teacher education, and education management and policy. As such, this volume will be of interest to a wide range of students, practitioners, researchers, and academics in the fields of education and linguistics.

Questioning Linguistics

by Ahmar Mahboob

Ahmar Mahboob & Naomi Knight (eds.)

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QUESTIONING LINGUISTICS brings together different perspectives on language studies and applications into a single... more QUESTIONING LINGUISTICS brings together different perspectives on language studies and applications into a single volume and allows readers to examine how linguists of diverse traditions study and use this expert knowledge of language. By doing so, this volume invites us to reconsider the nature and focus of the field of study and questions a number of current thoughts about language theory, application, and use. In effect, the nature of linguistics, linguistic theory, and languages are called into question, as are the methods that we as linguists may take for granted in our developed research traditions.

Appliable Linguistics Texts, Contexts, and Meanings

by Ahmar Mahboob

Ahmar Mahboob & Naomi Knight (Editors)

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This collection of research offers an initial step in the pursuit of an appliable linguistics. Appliable Linguistics... more This collection of research offers an initial step in the pursuit of an appliable linguistics. Appliable Linguistics takes everyday real-life language-related problems – both theoretical and practical – in diverse social, professional and academic contexts as its starting point. It then uses and contributes to a theoretical model of language that can respond to and is appliable in the context. The concept of appliable linguistics used in this volume is informed by the work of M.A.K. Halliday, who believes that "the value of a theory lies in the use that can be made of it." The chapters in this volume thus use and contribute to an appliable linguistics that engages with a range of issues including: translation, education, language teaching/learning, multimodality, media, social policy and action, and positive discourse analysis. This collection of research is offered as an initial step in the pursuit of Appliable Linguistics, which we hope will serve as a foundation for future work across the discipline.

Linguistic features of English and Vietnamese idioms: A contrastive analysis

by Long V Nguyen

This book is about a contrastive analysis of linguistic features of English and Vietnamese idioms, focusing on... more This book is about a contrastive analysis of linguistic features of English and Vietnamese idioms, focusing on idiomatic verb phrases as the most dominant idioms in terms of number and frequency of use. The research is carried out to investigate the similarities and differences in linguistic mechanisms and linguistic characteristics of English and Vietnamese idioms. A glimpse at structural mechanisms of English and Vietnamese idiomatic verb phrases is mentioned to clarify the linguistic mechanisms. Cultural features are also emphasized in this book as they bring about distinctive characteristics of idiomatic verb phrases in English and in Vietnamese. The study is descriptively and principally qualitatively achieved in terms of a contrastive analysis. A range of implications for English language teaching and learning is recommended. In addition, applications on the teaching and translating of this popular type of idioms from English to Vietnamese are suggested in the practical linguistic environment of English language education in Vietnam. The book is therefore aimed at researchers, language teachers, and language students with an interest in linguistics and contrastive analysis.

Technology, culture, and language education: A reflective exploration

by Long V Nguyen

This book seeks to investigate a dialectical relationship of technology, intercultural communication, and foreign... more This book seeks to investigate a dialectical relationship of technology, intercultural communication, and foreign language learning. Research has shown that the development of information and communication technology should not be considered in isolation. Members in a community of practice typically think together using various types of media, regardless of whether they are located. Emerging technologies are not only seen as one of the effective means that enhance a better cross-cultural understanding, but also evidently foster language development by providing various tools and mediators for social interaction, communication, and collaboration. It is argued from the book that technology, cross-cultural communication, and language learning are related to each other in a dialectical manner, which promotes various opportunities for curriculum development and syllabus design in language education. The book ends with a series of sample lesson plans that integrate technology and culture into a foreign language syllabus. This book therefore aims at language teachers and teacher trainees who are looking for prospects of integrating technology into intercultural and language development.