Understanding the Language Classroom - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230206956 ISBN 13: 9780230206953

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Synopsis

In this book for TESOL researchers and professional and student teachers of English and other languages, complexity and idiosyncrasy are highlighted as key concepts for understanding language classroom life.

About this title

About the Author

DICK ALLWRIGHT formerly Chair in Applied Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK KATHLEEN M. BAILEY Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California, USA ROGER BARNARD Senior Lecturer at the Department of General and Applied Linguistics of the University of Waikato, New Zealand MICHAEL P. BREEN formerly involved in Language Education and Language Teacher Development MARIA ANTONIETA ALBA CELANI Professor Emerita at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brazil HYWEL COLEMAN Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education, University of Leeds, UK. He is also Director of HCIE Ltd, the international education consultancy JOHN F. FANSELOW currently the president of a 600 student residential tertiary institution in New Zealand, International Pacific College. He is Professor Emeritus of Columbia University, Teachers College, New York, USA DONALD FREEMAN Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies at the School for International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont, USA, where he also directs the Centre for Teacher Education, Training and Research ADRIAN HOLLIDAY Professor of Applied Linguistics at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK ROZ IVANIC Professor of Linguistics in Education at the Department of Linguistics and English Language, and Associate Director of the Literacy Research Centre at Lancaster University, UK ELAINE E. TARONE Director of the Centre for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA), and Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair of the English as a Second Language Program in the Institute of Linguistics, ESL and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota, USA MING-I LYDIA TSENG currently doing her Ph.D. research at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language, Lancaster University, UK TONY WRIGHT School of International Education at the College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, UK DEVON WOODS Associate Professor at Carleton University, Canada

Review

'Once in a while you come across an edited volume that is hard to put down. Understanding the Language Classroom is one such rare volume...you will soon find yourself wanting to read evermore, for the views expressed in this volume are as diverse as the sixteen individuals that contributed to the wealth of information contained in this well-crafted work...it is an important addition to anyone's list of edited volumes on second languages and the complexity of learning, and I recommend it most highly...' - The Reading Matrix

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0230206956
• ISBN 13: 9780230206953
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 297
• Editor: Gieve S., Miller I.