The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning is an authoritative reference dealing with all aspects of this increasingly important field of study. Offering a comprehensive range of articles on contemporary language teaching and its history, it has been produced specifically for language teaching professionals andas a reference work for academic studies at postgraduate level.

In this new edition, every single entry has been reviewed and updated with reference to new developments and publications. Coverage has been expanded to reflect new technological, global and academic developments, with particular attention to areas such as online and distance learning, teacher and learner cognition, testing, assessment and evaluation, global English and teacher education.

Themes and disciplines covered include:

Methods and materials, including new technologies and materials development

Contexts and concepts, such as mediation, risk-taking in language learning and intercomprehension

Influential figures from the early days of language teaching to the contemporary

Related disciplines, such as psychology, anthropology and corpus linguistics

It covers the teaching of specific languages, including Japanese, Chinese, Arabic and African languages, as well as English, French, German and Spanish.

There are thirty five overview articles dealing with issues such as communicative language teaching, early language learning, teacher education and syllabus and curriculum design. A further 160 entries focus on topics such as bilingualism, language laboratories and study abroad. Numerous shorter items examine language and cultural institutions, professional associations and acronyms. Multiple cross-references enable the user to browse from one entry to another, and there are suggestions for further reading.

Written by an international team of specialists, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning is an invaluable resource and refenual for anyone with a professional or academic interest in the subject.

Reviews

Praise for the second edition

"This second edition offers an authoritative up-to-date view of global and multidisciplinary perspectives in language teaching and learning. The editors have met the mammoth challenge of bringing together a wide range of top-flight scholarship into a single comprehensive volume. The result is an indispensible guide for students, teachers and scholars worldwide. Bravo!" Sandra J. Savignon, Pennsylvania State University, USA

"It is exciting to see a new edition of the well-regarded and useful Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning. The second edition features updated entries, new topics, and several editorial enhancements that make this already-helpful single-volume encyclopedia even easier to use. Covering a wide range of historical, geographical, conceptual, and empirical ground related to language teaching and learning worldwide, the entries are j...