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Research into metaphor has become one of the fastest-growing and important areas of language research over the past twenty years, and metaphor is now recognised as central to …
The studies in this volume explore needs analysis in the public, vocational and academic sectors, in contexts ranging from service encounters in coffee shops to foreign language …
This collection of original papers comprehensively addresses the area of second language academic listening. The papers are grouped under five broad headings. The first section …
Research Genres discusses today’s research world, its various configurations of genres, and the role of English within them. Theoretical and methodological issues are explored, …
This important new book provides a critical overview of recent classroom-centered research and its implications for the teaching and learning of languages. Chaudron synthesizes and …
Task-based language teaching is an approach which differs from traditional approaches by emphasising the importance of engaging learners' natural abilities for acquiring language …
This book identifies the many facets of culture that influence second language learners and teachers. It addresses the impact of culture on learning to interact, speak, construct …
This original collection revisits and re-evaluates Chomsky’s classic competence/performance distinction from a wide variety of perspectives and areas of expertise. The discussion …
A collection of 13 original articles, this book is intended to provide a series of discussions about multiple aspects of second language writing, presenting chapters that …
Traditional language teaching typically results in limited foreign language proficiency. Communicative approaches tend to produce greater fluency, but less accuracy. A potential …