Engaging Children in Applied Linguistics Research

Engaging Children in Applied Linguistics Research
Author: Annamaria Pinter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2023-10-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1009058746

Based on the idea that children are experts of their lives, this pioneering book suggests that children's active participation in applied linguistics research can open up exciting new possibilities. It is essential reading for researchers in second language education, as well as anyone who wants to conduct research involving children.

The Handbook of Plurilingual and Intercultural Language Learning

The Handbook of Plurilingual and Intercultural Language Learning
Author: Christiane Fäcke
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 581
Release: 2025-02-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1394165919

Our evolving understanding of the role of English as a lingua franca and our growing sensitivity to the unique needs of students and teachers who communicate across languages and cultures has led to significant changes in language teaching, pedagogy, and curriculum design. The Handbook of Plurilingual and Intercultural Language Learning is a field-defining book, which examines the various ways learners learn and acquire language in a truly global context. Featuring contributions from a diverse range of scholars reflecting different cultural, linguistic, regional, and ideological perspectives, this innovative volume presents the most recent developments in the field while revealing the nuances and complexities of teaching and learning foreign languages. This Handbook explains the conceptual basis of intercultural and plurilingual learning, describes core pedagogical concepts, discusses different learning and teaching approaches, and provides the historical background for various methods and theories. The authors discuss how policy and pedagogy can adapt to the shifting demographics of local student populations, address new trends and evolving themes, and explore contemporary topics such as translanguaging, intercomprehension, technology-enhanced learning, language policy, and more. The Handbook of Plurilingual and Intercultural Language Learning is essential reading for students, educators, and researchers in applied linguistics, language teaching and learning, plurilingualism/multilingualism, TESOL, cognitive linguistics, language policy, language acquisition, and intercultural communication.

Early Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

Early Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
Author: Marianne Nikolov
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2024-09-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 180041871X

Over the past six decades, the field of teaching modern foreign languages to young learners has come a long way, from the early surmises about the advantages of a young start to today’s widespread integration of foreign languages into curricula in public and private schools. The chapters in this book bring together internationally renowned researchers who have been vocal in establishing early language teaching and learning as an independent area of research and novice voices who represent a new generation of devoted researchers to present a state-of-the-art volume on the topic. The authors address key questions about young learner second/foreign language (L2/FL) development, methodological issues when conducting research with young learners, L2/FL teaching pedagogy, language education policy, technology enhanced learning and assessment. Together, the chapters capture the reality of early FL development in the context of a globalized world and will be of great interest to researchers and postgraduate students of SLA and Applied Linguistics, specifically in the field of early language development and teaching languages to young learners.

Researching English Medium Instruction

Researching English Medium Instruction
Author: Samantha M. Curle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2024-06-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1009425374

Unlock advanced EMI research with unique quantitative methods. Dive deep, fill gaps, and elevate your studies in the EMI realm.

Teaching Young Language Learners

Teaching Young Language Learners
Author: Annamaria Pinter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2006-03-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780194422079

An overview of the issues surrounding the teaching of young learners combines up-to-date research with principles of classroom practice to discuss skills, vocabulary, grammar, adapting and designing materials, planning and assessment, and policy decisions.

Researching and Teaching Speech Acts with Young L2 Learners

Researching and Teaching Speech Acts with Young L2 Learners
Author: Milica Savić
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2024-10-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 180041272X

This book introduces the main concepts of pragmatics as they relate to the young English language learner classroom and research with young second language learners (YLLs). It considers the speech acts which are particularly relevant to YLLs and presents research findings on learners’ development of speech act perception and production. It provides pre- and in-service second language (L2) teachers, teacher educators and researchers with an understanding of young learners’ pragmatic development and with ideas for research-based approaches and specific classroom activities to help foster speech act development in the YLL classroom. Moving beyond the research methods traditionally employed in L2 pragmatics research, it also demonstrates how participant-centred data elicitation methods can be effective when conducting research with children. This book will appeal to researchers, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in applied linguistics and TESOL, as well as pre- and in-service primary school L2 teachers and teacher educators.

The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English to Young Learners

The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English to Young Learners
Author: Sue Garton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2018-10-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317226712

The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English to Young Learners celebrates the ‘coming of age’ for the field of research in primary-level English Language Teaching. With 32 chapters written by international scholars from a wide geographical area including East Africa, Mexico, the South Pacific, Japan, France, the USA and the UK, this volume draws on areas such as second language acquisition, discourse analysis, pedagogy and technology to provide: An overview of the current state of the field, identifying key areas of TEYL. Chapters on a broad range of subjects from methodology to teaching in difficult circumstances and from Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) to gaming. Suggestions of ways forward, with the aim of shaping the future research agenda of TEYL in multiple international contexts. Background research and practical advice for students, teachers and researchers. With extensive guidance on further reading throughout, The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English to Young Learners is essential reading for those studying and researching in this area.

Children Learning Second Languages

Children Learning Second Languages
Author: Annamaria Pinter
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2011-03-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0230302297

This comprehensive guide to research and debate centres around language learning in childhood, the age factor and the different contexts where language learning happens, including home and school contexts. The scope is wide, capturing examples of studies with different age groups, different methodological approaches and different languages.

Ethical and Methodological Issues in Researching Young Language Learners in School Contexts

Ethical and Methodological Issues in Researching Young Language Learners in School Contexts
Author: Annamaria Pinter
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2021-05-10
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1800411448

This book focuses on ethical and methodological issues faced by researchers working with young language learners in formal school contexts. It uncovers and explicitly discusses a range of ethical dilemmas, challenges and experiences that researchers have encountered and grappled with, in studies of all kinds from large scale, experimental studies to ethnographic studies focused on just a handful of children. The chapters are written by researchers working with children in different classroom contexts around the world and highlight how ethical dilemmas and tensions take on a complex form in child-focused research, requiring researchers to pay particular attention to the social and cultural norms of the different communities within which children are educated as well as their school-based experiences. The book comprises three sections, with the first part focused on involving children as active participants in research; part two on ethical challenges in multilingual contexts and part three on links between teacher education and researching children. The book includes a critical discussion of the opportunities and challenges associated with applying the UNCRC (1989) document in second language research with children which will be of use to any researcher working in this area.