Exploring English Language Teaching

Graham Hall is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics/TESOL at Northumbria University, UK. He is the author of Exploring English Language Teaching: Language in Action (Routledge, 2011), the winner of the 2012 British Association for Applied Lingusitics (BAAL) book prize. He is also the editor of The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching (Routledge, 2016).

• PART I: Classroom interaction and management The language classroom: roles, relationships and interactions Intervening in the language classroom: classroom management, interaction and learning opportunities The language classroom in theory and practice: complex, diverse and ‘local’PART II: Method, Postmethod and methodology Language, language learning and Method: dilemmas and practices Language teaching methods: perspectives and possibilities Theoretical insights for a Postmethod eraPART III: Learners Focus on the language learner: individual attributes and attitudes Learner diversity and development: considerations for the language classroom…and beyond Images of language learners: from individual to social, and universal to specificPART IV: Institutional frameworks and social contexts From global trends to local contexts: language dilemmas in the ELT classroom Planning and organizing L2 learning and teaching: contexts and curriculum, possibilities and realities ELT in the world: education and politics, context and goalsCommentary on selected tasksGlossaryFurther readingReferencesIndex

"This book is clearly one that should be on the reading list of second language instructors, those preparing to teach and other interested individuals. It covers a range of complex material in a concise and well organized manuscript. It promotes thinking and does so by treating the topics with great clarity and in a framework that refers to an extensive body of literature. Those who read it will gain insights, both theoretical and practical."- Linguist List, Martin R. Gitterman, Lehman College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York