Author: Susan Dawson

We are delighted to announce that the winners of The Modern Language Association’s 2011-2012 Kenneth W. Mildenberger prize are Susan M. Glass & Alison Mackey for The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (November 2011). To celebrate this award we are offering you an exclusive *20% off when puchasing the title through the Routledge website. Just quote MLA13 at the checkout to take advantage of this discount. Paperback: £35.00/$55.95 Now £28.00/$44.76 […]

The journal English Teaching: Practice and Critique has just published a special issue on the topic of ‘Language and Place’. There are several articles from around the globe that colleagues in TESOL/ELT might find interesting. http://edlinked.foe.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/view.php?view=true&id=68&p=1

By Betsy R Rymes This new book offers a timely and lively appraisal of the concept of communicative repertoires, resources we use to express who we are when in dialogue with others. Each chapter describes and illustrates the communicative resources humans deploy daily, but rarely think about – not only the multiple languages we use, but how we dress or gesture, […]

Issues is NATECLA’s part peer reviewed journal for language teaching professionals.  It explores the area between academic research and classroom practice, discussing teaching, training, management and research into ESOL and community languages.  Language Issues looks at broad issues and big ideas as well as particular learning and teaching contexts and is an invaluable resource for teachers, students, researchers and policy […]

Written by an experienced and interdisciplinary team of contributors from the renowned department of applied linguistics at Birkbeck College, University of London, this brand new textbook is a comprehensive survey of the theories, methods, and key findings within applied linguistics. Through a problem-solving approach, it aims to enable students to identify every-day language and communication issues, and to draw on […]