ELTWeekly Issue#25, Book of the week: English Language Teaching in its Social Context: A Reader

By Tarun Patel

English Language Teaching in its Social Context: A Reader

Book Description

English Language Teaching in its Social Context presents four major principles of English language teaching:

* focusing on the roles played by teachers and learners
* recognizing the individuality of language learners
* supporting teachers in the provision of active guidance for students’ learning
* examining both positive and negative patterns of interaction between learners and teachers.
About the Author

Christopher N. Candlin is Chair Professor of Applied Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong.

Neil Mercer is professor of Language and Communications at the Open University, UK.

More Details

Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (January 22, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415241219
ISBN-13: 978-0415241212
Price: $160.00

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second language classroom research, language learning research, good language learner, instructed learners, interlanguage development,

language socialisation, successful language learners, language pedagogy, second language development, second language acquisition research and more.

This book cites 100 books:

Second Language Acquisition (Oxford Introductions to Language Study) by Rod Ellis on 6 pages
The Natural Approach: Language Acquisition in the Classroom (Language Teaching Methodology) by Stephen D. Krashen on 6 pages
Input in Second Language (Issues in second language research) by Susan Gass on 4 pages
An Introduction to Functional Grammar by M. A. K. Halliday on page 199, page 207, and page 268
Learning Lessons: Social Organization in the Classroom by Hugh Mehan on page 106, and page 240
and more.

English Language Teaching in its Social Context: A Reader By C. Candlin

ELTWeekly Issue#25 commento

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July 11th, 2009

About... Tarun Patel

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Tarun Patel (http://tarunpatel.net/blog/) is an ELT and Communication skills teacher, working with Charotar University of Science & Technology (CHARUSAT - http://charusat.ac.in/). He has been dealing with the Language learning processes for last seven years. 'Technology in Teaching English' is his favorite domain and he has presented several research papers in national and international conferences on the same theme. He is the founder editor of ELTWeekly (http://eltweekly.com/), India's first weekly ELT eNewsletter which reaches in more than forty countries and benefits more than 1600d teachers of English and Communication Skills. Have a look at his personal blog http://tarunpatel.net/blog/.