The Foundations and Versatility of English Language Teaching (ELT)

✍ Scribed by Christoph Haase (editor), Natalia Orlova (editor), Joel Head (editor)

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 294
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

While the field of ELT studies sees continued horizontal and vertical diversification, it is also time to take stock of what has made the discipline the field it presents itself as today. As horizontal diversification, we can identify trends that involve a continued inclusion of more fields of study into the family of methods and approaches of ELT. Especially in the technical sense, e-learning has matured and new forms of online learning and teaching have emerged, be it via teleconferences or short-message services for vocabulary training. However, a massive extension has occurred within the so-called social media. The vertical dimension affects a depth of analysis not seen even a decade ago, when for example small and relatively simple learner corpora were used for linguistic analysis that rarely went beyond rote frequency counts. The increasing sophistication in these two dimensions is also reflected in the research papers collected in this volume.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Section 1: Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching
Fostering Morphological Awareness in the Teacher Trainee Class: Some Reflections on –ous and Rival Adjectival Suffixes • Silvia Cacchiani
Exploring Formulaic Clusters in L2 English Expert Writing: Academic ELF Discourse • Gabriela Zapletalová
Computer-Assisted Language Learning: A Necessity for Language Learning and Teaching • Dara Tafazoli and Maryam Rafiei
The Corpus of Czech Adult English: Design, Analysis and Future Expectations • Kateřina Šteklová
Corpus & Discovery Learning in High-School Academic English and Academic Writing: COHAT and Other Corpora • Róbert Bohát
The Leeds Corpus of Czech Learner English: Design Features and Data Collection • Christoph Haase and Kateřina Šteklová
The Awareness of the Complexity in English Function and Content Words by Polish Subjects in Different Proficiency Groups • Adam Pluszczyk and Artur Świątek
Language and Identity: English as a Part of Students’ Language Identity Construction • Michaela Slezák Polónyová
Folk Taxonomies Outside of the Domain of “Living Things”: Somewhat Odd Classifications • Radek Vogel
Teaching Vowel Sounds: Differences between English and Czech • Dušan Melen and Monika Hřebačková
Section 2: Approaches in English Language Teaching Methodology
Student Teacher Views on What Makes a Good Host Teacher • Natalia Orlova
Confidence in Language Learning • Michael Hall
A Teacher Education Framework for Developing Teachers’ Competences for Plurilingual and Intercultural Education • Paloma Castro and Elena González-Cascos
Post-Project Development of Plurilingualism Understanding in Partner Context • Lora Tamošiūnienė and Vilhelmina Vaičiūnienė
Section 3: ELT Perspectives on Cultural and Literary Studies
Terrorist Recruitment and English: The Use of English as a Terrorist Language • Mary Ellen Toffle
Two Poetic Vessels: The Human as Container and Contained • Joel Cameron Head
Teaching Postmodernist Fiction • Zinaida Chemodurova
Sky Woman and Windigo: Characters from Oral Storytelling in Contemporary Canadian Indigenous Literature • Jana Marešová
Black, White, and Yellow Blood: Race and the Rhetoric of Scientific Authority • Mark Andrew Brandon
Generational Conflicts in A Lesson before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines • Aneta Červenková
Ready-to-Serve FCE: A Review • Stanislava Kaiserová
Hilská – Harrisová – Woolfová: A Review • Stanislava Kaiserová