Language Education and Applied Linguistics

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Bridging the two fields

By Howard Nicholas and Donna Starks

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Language Education and Applied Linguistics: bridging the two fields offers an accessible introduction for students and researchers aiming to connect Applied Linguistics with language education. It presents a practical framework to understand the communication resources individuals use, helping teachers and learners discuss key communicative features and tools.

The book enables learners to assess their current and target language skills, empowering personalised language learning. It also supports educators in addressing multiliteracy, digital literacies, and plurilingual development, while helping Applied Linguistics students grasp relevant theories. Sociolinguists can also apply their research within educational contexts.
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Ideal for students, teachers, researchers, and teacher educators in language education and applied linguistics, especially those interested in multilingual contexts and communicative competence.

This book provides a framework for understanding the communicative repertoire, which students, teachers and teacher educators can use to explore plurilingual learning and use and the life experiences of plurilinguals in and outside classrooms.

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Language Education and Applied Linguistics: bridging the two fields provides a starting point for students and researchers in both Language and Education who wish to interpret and use insights from the field of Applied Linguistics. It is also intended for Applied Linguists who wish to engage in dialogue with language educators and researchers in education.

Providing a framework for understanding the resources individuals use to communicate, this accessible and innovative text will enable teachers and learners to understand and discuss features and tools used in communication.

This framework enables:

Learners to explore their current language abilities and their desired future communicative abilities, empowering them to engage with their own language learning needs
Language educators to explore central concerns in multiliteracy, digital literacies, plurilingualism and plurilingual development
Applied Linguistics students to understand theories of applied linguistics and language education
Sociolinguists to bring their research into education

Language Education and Applied Linguistics can be used by students, teachers, researchers and teacher educators to explore multilingual contexts and communicative purposes in language classrooms, language education and applied linguistics.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780415534406

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 21 February 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 60 Line drawings, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 430g

Pages: 194

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About the Author

Howard Nicholas is a Senior Lecturer in Language Education in the Faculty of Education at La Trobe University. Trained as an applied linguist and language teacher, his research interests focus on second language acquisition, plurilingualism, language teaching and policy as well as learning with mobile devices. He has published in the areas of second language learning and teaching, learning with mobile devices and language teacher recruitment, education and employment. Donna Starks is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at La Trobe University. Trained as a linguist, her research interests focus on the interface between language, identity and ethnicity. She has published in the areas of heritage language maintenance and lesser known varieties of English