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This Element offers a comprehensive account of the unprecedented spread of English as a global language by taking historical, sociolinguistic, and pedagogical perspectives. To realize this mission, it opens with an accessible discussion of the historical trajectory of the English language with qualitative and quantitative connections to its contemporary diversity in terms of forms, roles, functions, uses, users, and contexts of English as a global and multilingual franca. Built upon this synchronic-diachronic symbiosis, the discussion is complemented by an overview of major analytical paradigm...

Foreword Acknowledgements 1. An Intercultural Approach To Second Language Education 2. Implementing an Intercultural Approach 3. Culture and Conversational English 4. Culture and Written Genres 5. Ethnographic Approaches to Culture and Language 6. Exploring Culture through Interviews 7. Developing Visual Literacy 8. Using Literary, Media and Cultural Studies 9. Assessing Intercultural Communication 10. Prospects for Teaching and Learning Language and Culture.ReferencesIndex

This is a thoroughly revised, updated and expanded edition of a practical introduction to intercultural education for teachers of English as a second language. This new edition addresses developments in the field since the publication of the 1st edition, including the impact of online resources for English language education.

Due to the increasing demand of English-speaking professionals in the tourism and hospitality industry, the objective of this study was to investigate the influence of implementing Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) on cultivating undergraduates' communicative competence in Tourism English in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom. This study adopted mixed methods research design. 70 Taiwanese undergraduates were recruited to participate in the pretests (paper-based and oral-based), pre-questionnaires, posttests (paper-based and oral-based), post-questionnaires, and focus group in...

A systematic review method was used with PRISMA principles to identify affordances of the use of AI in ELT/L in the areas of speaking, writing, reading, pedagogy and self‐regulation, and highlights the gaps in academic knowledge as a lack in the use of AI for assessment in ELT/L.

Abstract The rise of English as a global language has led scholars to call for a paradigm shift in the field of English language teaching (ELT) to match the new sociolinguistic landscape of the twenty-first century. In recent years a considerable amount of classroom-based research and language teacher education (LTE) research has emerged to investigate these proposals in practice. This paper outlines key proposals for change in language teaching from the related fields of World Englishes (WE), English as a lingua franca (ELF), English as an international language (EIL), and Global Englishes, a...

This study identifies and analyses the key knowledge generated by the English-language-teaching community during the COVID-19 pandemic and ends with a discussion of the lessons learned and suggests potential areas for further research.

How AI is currently used in ELT is described, and some of the opportunities and challenges that AI can provide for learners, teachers and institutions are explored.

The role of ChatGPT in English Language Teaching (ELT) is explored, drawing from literature to describe current thinking on its benefits and challenges and offering recommendations for future directions in teaching and research.

Teachers and schools in K-12 education are constantly adapting to meet the increasingly diverse needs of students, including English language learners (ELLs). As the author of this book notes, ELLs...

Abstract The paper explores the impact of the growth in English medium instruction (EMI) on the field of ELT. Increasing studies report students’ language-related challenges and linguistic preparedness to be major barriers to successful implementation of EMI. These challenges, which have accompanied an unfettered growth in EMI provision, impact on practitioners and students and highlight the role of ELT practitioners in providing language support. This paper outlines how EMI is changing the role of ELT practitioners in the internationalized and ‘Englishized’ higher education sector, who increa...

With the flourishing of positive psychology (PP) in foreign and second language teaching research, interest has grown in a range of positive psychological variables including the new concept of foreign language teaching enjoyment (FLTE) that mirrors that of learners’ Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE). The present study investigates how positive psychological and personality-based variables like resilience, well-being, and L2 grit shape the FLTE of 450 Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers. The participants completed four electronic surveys, and the collected data were analyzed th...

Internationally recognised as one of the leading texts in its field, this volume offers a comprehensive introduction to vocabulary for language teachers who would like to know more about the way vocabulary works. Two leading specialists make research and theory accessible, providing the background knowledge necessary for practitioners to make informed choices about vocabulary teaching and testing. This second edition retains the popular format of the first edition, and has been rewritten to take account of the many developments in the past 20 years. There is a greater focus on the vocabulary l...

Abstract In this review article on race and language teaching, we highlight an urgent need for the international educational community to continue to develop a complex understanding of how language teaching and learners’ lives are shaped by our global history of racist practices of colonial expansion, including settler colonialism and transatlantic slavery. We outline the genesis of research on race and language teaching and review literature that reflects a recent increase in scope and range of studies that problematize the workings of race and racism in language teaching and point to hopeful...

English is now used as a lingua franca, most of the native and non-native speakers of English are using English as their mode of communication in their business matters or business organizations. English language is spread all over the world into almost all the fields such as science, engineering and technology, medicine, trade and commerce, scientific research, education, tourism, internet, banking, business, advertising, film industry, transportation, pharmacy and to name a few. The international expansion of English has been predicted and promoted regularly by leaders on both sides of the A...

The rise of Artificial Intelligence in educational contexts has sparked both excitement and trepidation, highlighting the urgent need to investigate its implications, especially in English Language Teaching. In light of this context, this study aimed to find out how English language teachers perceive the pedagogical benefits and challenges posed by ChatGPT when incorporated into ELT and identify potential avenues for such digital innovations. Adopting a qualitative research design, data were purposively collected by distributing an open-ended questionnaire to 46 English language teachers from ...

This volume presents a new edition of Otto Jespersen's landmark 1917 study of negation in English and other languages, primarily Germanic and Romance. While best known for describing what would later be called “Jespersen's Cycle'”, this work offers far more: a comprehensive analysis of negative expressions, their forms, functions, and historical development. The book examines topics ranging from negative prefixes to the distinction between special and nexal negation, supported by Jespersen's characteristically rich collection of authentic examples. This edition features an extensive new introd...

Emotions are an important part of the experiences of both language teachers and language learners, however their role has often been marginalized as a result of the focus on cognitive rather than affective dimensions of language learning within the discipline of Second Language Acquisition. The ‘affective turn’ in applied linguistics has refocussed on how teachers’ and learners’ emotions influence how they manage teaching and learning. This survey article explores the kinds of emotions teachers and learners experience, the causes of these emotions, and the impact they can have on teaching and ...

The digital competencies teachers and learners require to use this chatbot ethically and effectively to support language learning are presented.

Abstract Teaching English has traditionally been associated with a monolingual bias and the exclusive use of English in the classroom is highly recommended in different countries. Nowadays English is widely used to teach academic content and this strict separation of languages can be problematic because it prevents students from using resources they have previously acquired in other languages (Cenoz & Gorter, 2015; Kubota, 2018). In this article we discuss ‘pedagogical translanguaging’ understood as intentional instructional strategies that integrate two or more languages and aim at the de...

Abstract Due to the spread of Covid-19, universities had to move their courses online abruptly. This paper explores its impact on 510 European tertiary-level English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ classroom emotions and analyses possible links to their trait emotional intelligence (TEI) and learner autonomy. Statistical analyses of data gathered with a web survey revealed that students rated their ‘in-person’ classes as significantly more enjoyable and also more anxiety-provoking. Overall, levels of foreign language enjoyment (FLE) and foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) were posi...

A systematic review of the literature on artificial intelligence in English language teaching (ELT) delineated the current research progress in the field and to further understand the challenges, showing that there is a promising future for AI in ELT.

Now in its second edition, this reader-friendly text offers a comprehensive treatment of concepts and knowledge related to teaching second language (L2) listening, with a particular emphasis on metacognition. This book advocates a learner-oriented approach to teaching listening that focuses on the process of learning to listen. It applies theories of metacognition and language comprehension to offer sound and reliable pedagogical models for developing learner listening inside and outside the classroom. To bridge theory and practice, the book provides teachers with many examples of research-inf...

This article advocates that, through collaborative technology‐mediated tasks, the authors can promote productive language output (spoken and written) and the type of interaction that facilitates language learning and motivates students to continue improving their language skills.

The results of the interviews demonstrated that the faculty members held varying opinions about the efficacy of ChatGPT, but recognized ChatGPT’s value as a teaching and learning aid and recommended further experimental research to evaluate its effectiveness.

This paper proposes a multi-modal neural network that applies BI-GRU (Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit) to English word segmentation, and uses the CRF (Conditional Random Field) model to annotate sentences in sequence, effectively solving the long-distance dependency of text semantics, shortening network training and predicted time.

The author revealed that teachers had had limited preparation experiences at both the TFLAS and ESL levels, where teachers had struggled with the intensity of the anxiety levels and the complexity of the material.

This article examines the relationship between Japanese undergraduate students’ English language proficiency and English language-related challenges faced when studying an international business course through English. It also examines English language proficiency thresholds students need to reach in each academic skill (i.e. reading, listening, speaking and writing) to experience a lower level of linguistic challenges. A total of 264 students were surveyed in Tokyo, Japan, and 13 follow-up interviews were conducted. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses confirmed the underlying factors...

Abstract Following the multilingual trend in language education, translanguaging advocates active use of multiple languages and other meaning-making resources in a dynamic and integrated way in teaching and learning. When it comes to foreign language education, translanguaging advocates a view that the languages the learners already have should and can play a very positive role in learning additional languages. Moreover, the knowledge already acquired through the learners’ first and/or prior learned languages also plays an important role in foreign-language-medium education. This view is more ...

The pedagogic background to task-based language teaching -- Cognitive-interactionist perspectives -- Psycholinguistic perspectives -- Sociocultural perspectives -- Psychological perspectives -- Educational perspectives -- Task-based syllabus design -- Methodology of task-based language teaching -- Task-based testing and assessment -- Comparative method studies -- Evaluating task-based language teaching -- Responding to the critics of task-based language teaching -- Questions, challenges, and the future.

The outbreak of COVID-19 generated an unprecedented global push towards remote online language teaching and learning. In most contexts, language teachers and learners underwent a rapid switch to online instruction with limited resources and preparation. Their experiences demonstrate resilience, perseverance, and creativity under highly challenging conditions. This collection of studies examines the challenges that language teachers and learners have experienced in teaching and learning online, explores how they have addressed these challenges, and identifies critical lessons to help language e...

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is an innovative approach to language teaching which emphasises the importance of engaging learners' natural abilities for acquiring language incidentally. The speed with which the field is expanding makes it difficult to keep up with recent developments, for novices and experienced researchers alike. This handbook meets that need, providing a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the field, written by a stellar line-up of leading international experts. Chapters are divided into five thematic areas, and as well as covering theory, also contain case studies t...

The study combines a quantitative study of approximately 30 classrooms in Baden-Württemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia with a qualitative analysis of two classrooms in Hamburg to explore the conditions and effects of adaptive, individualized practice with intelligent feedback and scaffolding on classroom-based communicative task performance and language learning processes in general.

The study reported in this article investigated the linguistic challenges that students face at an English medium instruction (EMI) university in Turkey. The aims of the study were (1) to describe the challenges that students experience in their EMI classes; (2) to investigate how these challenges vary according to individual student characteristics; and (3) to validate a research instrument designed to explore academic language-related challenges in EMI contexts. Data were collected from undergraduate students (N = 498) using an online questionnaire, which had a structure based on challenges ...

Ilias Chalkidis, Abhik Jana, Dirk Hartung, Michael Bommarito, Ion Androutsopoulos, Daniel Katz, Nikolaos Aletras. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2022.

This article reports a mixed-methods study that examined academic success in an Economics programme at a public university in Turkey. Test score data from English Medium Instruction (EMI) and Turkish Medium Instruction (TMI) courses, and general English proficiency (GEP) scores were collected from fourth-year students (n = 159). Follow-up semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 students. Results showed that General English Proficiency was not a statistically significant predictor of EMI academic success. TMI academic success, however, did significantly predict success in EMI. This il...

© 2020 The Author(s). This article presents an analysis of the standard language ideology within a corpus of school-designed language policy documents from 264 primary schools in England. It examines the processes by which standard language ideological concepts (e.g. ‘Standard English’, ‘correctness’, ‘hegemony’) get textually manifested in school policies, and how these are intertextually and interdiscursively shaped by the broader educational policy context that teachers work in, notably the large-scale curriculum and assessment reforms of National Curriculum 2014. Using tools and methods fr...

The case study in this article offers a descriptive account of challenges involved in teaching Australian Curriculum content in the common teaching context in remote communities where an Indigenous language is spoken as the everyday form of communication and students learn English in what is essentially a foreign language setting. An on-theground description of the work of a Primary school teaching team servesto illustrate the language teaching aspect of delivering Australian Curriculum content in areas such as History, Geography and Science. This aspect of the teaching team’s work is underest...

This review study can serve as a guide for teaching and research communities who plan on designing language learning and teaching activities supported by technologies.

The article explores natural language processing (NLP), data-driven learning (DDL), automated writing evaluation (AWE), computerized dynamic assessment (CDA), intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs), automatic speech recognition (ASR), and chatbots to suggest that AI will be continuously integrated into language education and AI technologies and applications will have a profound impact on language learning and teaching.