Current Issues in Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Development : Research and Practice

✍ Scribed by Christina Gitsaki; Thomai Alexiou

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 374
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Current Issues in Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Development: Research and Practice represents a collection of selected papers from the 17th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), which was held in August 2014 in Brisbane, Australia. The volume comprises 18 chapters presenting current research projects and discussing issues related to second language acquisition, teaching and teacher education in a variety of contexts from around the world. This collection of research papers will be of use to both new and seasoned researchers in the field of applied linguistics. Teacher educators, language teachers and language policy makers will find this volume equally useful as the papers address current issues in language education.

✦ Subjects

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

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