The Handbook of Language Teaching

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Teaching, Teaching Methods

• ISBN: 9781444345612
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication: July 5, 2011
• Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
• Language: English

Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, this Handbook is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference guide to language teaching.

• A comprehensive reference work on language teaching, which combines the latest research findings, coverage of core topics, and examples of teaching experience from a variety of languages and settings

• Provides a unique breadth of coverage, including: the psycholinguistic underpinnings of language learning; social, political, and educational contexts; program design; materials writing and course design; teaching and testing; teacher education; and assessment and evaluation

• Offers a balanced evaluation of the major positions and approaches, including examining the increasingly important social and political context of language teaching

• Written by an international and interdisciplinary group of authors from a dozen different countries; English is only one of the many languages used as examples throughout the volume