Research Questions in Language Education and Applied Linguistics : A Reference Guide / edited by Hassan Mohebbi, Christine Coombe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mohebbi, Hassan, editor.

Coombe, Christine, editor.

Series:

Springer Texts in Education, 2366-7680

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Language acquisition.

Education.

Language Education.

Language Acquisition and Development.

Local Subjects:

Language Education.

Language Acquisition and Development.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (814 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2021.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2021.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

An important skill in reviewing the research literature is following a study’s “plan of attack.” Broadly, this means that before accepting and acting upon the findings, one considers a) the research question (Is it clear and focused? Measurable?), b) the subjects examined, the methods deployed, and the measures chosen (Do they fit the study’s goal and have the potential to yield useful results?), and c) the analysis of the data (Do the data lead to the discussion presented? Has the author reasonably interpreted results to reach the conclusion?). Mohebbi and Coombe’s book, Research Questions in Language Education and Applied Linguistics: A Reference Guide, helps budding researchers take the first step and develop a solid research question. As the field of language education evolves, we need continual research to improve our instructional and assessment practices and our understanding of the learners’ language learning processes. This book with its remarkable 150 topics and 10 times the number of potential research questions provides a wealth of ideas that will help early career researchers conduct studies that move our field forward and grow our knowledge base. Deborah J. Short, Ph.D., Director, Academic Language Research & Training, Past President, TESOL International Association (2021-22) As a teacher in graduate programs in TESOL I frequently come across the frustration of students at centering their research interests on a particular topic and developing research questions which are worth pursuing so as to make a contribution to the field. This frustration stems from the fact that our field is so vast and interrelated, that it is often impossible to properly address all that interests them. Hence, I wholeheartedly welcome this most relevant and innovative addition to the research literature in the field of TESOL and Applied Linguistics. Coombe and Mohebbi have created a real tour de force that stands to inform budding researchers in the field for many years to come. Additionally, the cutting-edge depiction of the field and all it has to offer will no doubt update the research agendas of many seasoned researchers around the world. The 150 chapters are organized in a most powerful, yet, deceptively simple way offering a positioning within the topic, suggesting questions that might direct inquiry and offering a basic set of bibliographic tools to start the reader in the path towards research. What is more, the nine sections in which the chapters are organized leave no area of the field unexplored. Dr. Gabriel Díaz Maggioli, Academic Advisor, Institute of Education,Universidad ORT del Uruguay, President, IATEFL Chapter “Metacognition in Academic Writing: Learning Dimensions” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I: Teaching and teaching-related topics

1 Attending to Form in the Communicative Classroom; Martin East

2 Blended Learning; Lana Hiasat

3 Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL); Zohreh R. Eslami and Zihan Geng

4 Content-Based Language Teaching; Zubeyde Sinem GENC

5 Creativity and Language Teaching; Tamas Kiss

6 Discourse Analysis; Brian Paltridge

7 English Academic Vocabulary Teaching and Learning; Sophia Skoufaki

8 English for Academic Purposes; Helen Basturkmen

9 English for Specific Purposes; Helen Basturkmen

10 English-Medium Instruction; Keith M. Graham and Zohreh R. Eslami

11 Focus on Form in Second Language Instruction; Alessandro Benati

12 A Genre-Based Approach to Writing Instruction in the Content Areas; Luciana C. de Oliveira & Sharon L. Smith

13 Global Englishes and Teaching English as an International Language; Heath Rose and Mona Syrbe

14 Identity in language learning and teaching; Bonny Norton

15 Inclusive Language Teaching; David Gerlach

16 Increasing Reading Fluency; Neil J Anderson

17 Instructional Pragmatics; Zohreh R. Eslami and Shaun Weihong Ko

18 Interactionist Approach to Corrective Feedback; Rebekha Abbuhl

19 Issues in Teaching and Assessing Language as Communication; Barbara Hoekje

20 Language Teaching in Difficult Circumstances; Jason Anderson, Amol Padwad and Richard Smith

21 Materials in the Language Classroom; Kathleen Graves

22 Motivation in Practice; Julie Waddington

23 Second Language Writing Instruction; Ken Hyland

24 Task-based Language Teaching; Rod Ellis

25 Teacher & Learner Perspectives on Vocabulary Learning and Teaching (VLT); Jonathan Newton

26 Teachers’ Relational Practices and Students’ Motivation; Alastair Henry

27 Teaching English as an International Language; Aya Matsuda

28 Teaching for Transfer of Second Language Learning; Mark A. James

29 Teaching Speakers of Marginalized Varieties: Creoles and Unstandardized Dialects; Jeff Siegel

30 Teaching Suprasegmentals in English as a Lingua Franca Contexts; Christine Lewis and David Deterding

31 Translanguaging in Teaching/learning Languages; Leslie Barratt

32 Translanguaging with SLIFE Students for More Inclusive Teaching; Eileen Ariza

33 World Englishes, English as a Lingua Franca and ELT; Paola Vettorel

Part II: Learners and learning-related topics

34 Child Task-based Language Learning in Foreign Language Contexts; María del Pilar García Mayo

35 Emergent Bilingualism in Foreign Language Education; Pat Moore and Blake Turnbull

36 Extramural English in Language Education; Pia Sundqvist

37 Language Learning Strategies; Mirosław Pawlak

38 Language Proficiency and Academic Performance; Saleh Al-Busaidi

39 Learner Strategies; Li-Shih Huang

40 Learning Beyond the Classroom; Hayo Reinders and Phil Benson

41 Long-term English Learners; Maneka Deanna Brooks and Peter Smagorinsky

42 Materials Development for Language Learning; Brian Tomlinson

43 Metacognition in Academic Writing: Learning Dimensions; Raffaella Negretti

44 Second-language Strategy Instruction; Luke Plonsky and Ekaterina Sudina

45 Second Language Linguistic Competence and Literacy of Adult Migrants with Little or No Home Language Literacy; Martha Young-Scholten

46 Task Engagement in Language Learning; Joy Egbert

47 Vocabulary Knowledge and Educational Attainment; James Milton

48 Vocabulary Learning Strategies; Peter Yongqi Gu

49 Working Memory; Zhisheng (Edward) Wen

Part III: Assessment and assessment-related topics

50 Aligning Language Assessments to Standards and Frameworks; Spiros Papageorgiou

51 Assessing L2 Signed Language Ability in Deaf Children of Hearing Parents; Wolfgang Mann, Joanna Hoskin and Hilary Dumbrill

52 Assessing Second Language Listening; Elvis Wagner

53 Assessing Second Language Pronunciation; Johnathan Jones and Talia Isaacs

54 (The) Assessment of Target-Language Pragmatics; Andrew D. Cohen

55 Classroom Assessment & Assessment as Learning; Jonathan Trace

56 English Language Proficiency: What is it? And where do learners fit into it? James Dean Brown

57 Integrated Skills Assessment; Lia Plakans

58 Language Assessment in EMI; Slobodanka Dimova

59 Language Assessment for Professional Purposes; Ute Knoch

60 Language Assessment Literacy; Christine Coombe and Peter Davidson

61 Language Testing; Glenn Fulcher

62 Needs Analysis; Li-Shih Huang

62B Oral Corrective Feedback; Shaofeng Li

63 Peer Interaction Assessment; Noriko Iwashita

64 Portfolio Assessment; Pauline Mak

65 (The) Provision of Feedback on EAP Writing; Rachael Ruegg

66 (The) Role of the Rater in Writing Assessment; Sara T. Cushing

67 Second Language Vocabulary Assessment;John Read

68 Self-assessment; Yuko Goto Butler

69 Strategic Competence: The Concept and Its Role in Language Assessment; Mehdi Riazi

70 Translation Assessment; Renee Jourdenais

71 Validation of Assessment Scores and Uses; Mehdi Riazi

72 Vocabulary: Its Development over Time and Writing Quality in L2 Contexts; Lee McCallum

73 Washback; Rubina Khan

74 Written Corrective Feedback; Icy Lee

75 Writing Assessment Literacy; Deborah Crusan

Part IV: Language skills and subskills

76 Aural Vocabulary Knowledge; Joshua Matthews

77 Collaborative Writing in the Second/Foreign Language (L2) Classroom; Ali Shehadeh

78 Developing L2 Listening Fluency; Anna C-S Chang

79 Extensive Reading; Willy A Renandya and Yuseva Iswandari

80 Foreign Accent Strength in English; Berna Hendriks and Frank van Meurs

81 Foreign Language Reading Fluency and Reading Fluency Methodologies; Greta Gorsuch and Etsuo Taguchi.-82 Learner Corpora for Disciplinary Writing; Lynne Flowerdew

83 Lexical Inferencing and Vocabulary Development; Hossein Vafadar and Hassan Mohebbi

84 Oral Academic Genres and Features of Student Academic Presentations; Alla Zareva

85 Speech Fluency; Xun Yan, Yuyun Lei, and Hyunji (Hayley) Park

86 Teaching and Learning Vocabulary; Suhad Sonbul and Anna Siyanova-Chanturia

Part V: Teachers and teacher education

87 Corpora in the Classroom

Eric Friginal and Justin Taylor; 88 EAP Teacher Education; Mahmood Reza Atai

89 Emotionality in TESOL and Teacher Education; Juan de Dios Martínez Agudo

90 English Language Teacher Motivation; Krishna K Dixit and Amol Padwad

91 Foreign Language Teacher Education; Friederike Klippel

92 Identity in SLA and Second Language Teacher Education; Peter De Costa and Curtis Green-Eneix

93 Language Teacher Burnout; Akram Nayernia

94 Language Teacher Identity; Gary Barkhuizen

95 Language Teacher Professional Development;Victoria Tuzlukova

96 Language Teacher Professionalism; Britta Viebrock and Carina Kaufmann

97 Language Teacher Well-being; Kyle R. Talbot and Sarah Mercer

98 Language Teachers’ Self-efficacy Beliefs; Mark Wyatt

99 Online Language Teacher Education (OLTE); Mary Ann Christison and Denise E. Murray

100 Reflective Practice in Language Education; Thomas S.C. Farrell

101 Second Language Teacher Education Curricula; Nikki Ashcraft

102 Teacher Knowledge Development; Phil Quirke

103 Teacher Research; Anne Burns

104 The Native/nonnative Conundrum; Péter Medgyes

Part VI: Technology and technology-enhanced instruction

105 Computer-based Second Language Listening; Mónica S. Cárdenas-Claros

106 Digital Game-Based Learning; Zohreh R. Eslami and Mahjabin Chowdhury

107 Digital Genres and Teaching English for Academic Purposes; María José Luzón

108 Digital Literacies; Nicky Hockly

109 Exploring the Potential of Social Media in SLA: Issues, Affordances and Incentives; Liam Murray and Marta Giralt

110 Genre-based Automated Writing Evaluation; Elena Cotos

111 Impact of Perception on Readiness for Online Teaching; Jacqueline S. Stephen

112 Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning; Trude Heift

113 Online Continuing Professional Development; Flora Debora Floris

114 Online Informal Language Learning; Ruth Trinder

115 Social Networking for Language Teaching and Learning; Phuong Tran

Part VII: Politics, policies and practices in language education

116 Bilingualism; Gillian Wigglesworth and Carmel O’Shannessy

117 ELT and International Development; C. J. Denman

118 ELT Textbook Ideology; Esmat Babaii

119 Embedding Academic Literacy in Degree Curricula; Neil Murray

120 English Language Education Policy; Robert Kirkpatrick and M. Obaidul Hamid

121 Englishization of Higher Education; Nicola Galloway and Jim McKinley

122 Linguistic Barriers in Foreign Language Education; Heiko Motschenbacher

123Policy Enactment for Effective Leadership in English Language Program Management; Kashif Raza

124 Unequal Englishes; Ruanni Tupas

125 Values in the Language Classroom; Graham Hall

Part VIII: Research and research-related topics

126 Eye-tracking as a Research Method in Language Testing; Tineke Brunfaut

127 History of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics; Richard Smith

128 Quantitative Research Methods and the Reform Movement in Applied Linguistics; Luke Plonsky

129 Research Methods in Unconscious Motivation; Ali H. Al-Hoorie

130 Research Paradigms in TESOL and Language Education; Salah Troudi

131 Teacher Research; Daniel Xerri

Part IX: Applied linguistics and second language acquisition

132 Bilingual Code-mixing and Code-switching; Tej K. Bhatia

133 Cognitive Task Complexity and Second Language Writing; Mark D. Johnson

134 Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency (CAF); Alex Housen

135 (A) Complex Dynamic Systems Perspective to Researching Language Classroom Dynamics; Diane Larsen-Freeman

136 Complex Dynamic Systems Theory and Second Language Development; Marjolijn Verspoo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Mohebbi, Hassan Research Questions in Language Education and Applied Linguistics

ISBN:

9783030791438

3030791432