The rise of English as a global language has led scholars to call for a paradigm shift in the
field of English language teaching (ELT) to match the new sociolinguistic landscape of the …

Cultivating motivation is crucial to a language learner's success–and therefore crucial for the
language teacher and researcher to understand. The third edition of Teaching and …

Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical
concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction …

The spread of English as a global language has resulted in the emergence of a number of
related fields of research within applied linguistics, including English as an International …

In 2006, Graddol predicted that numbers of 'English as a foreign language'learners would
begin to decline through the second decade of this century, as global English achieves …

Translation and Translanguaging brings into dialogue translanguaging as a theoretical lens
and translation as an applied practice. This book is the first to ask: what can translanguaging …

Is acquiring a third language the same as acquiring a second? Are all instances of non-
native language acquisition simply one and the same? In this first book-length study of the …

Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition
is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of second language acquisition …

We argue for a perspective on bilingual heritage speakers as native speakers of both their
languages and present results from a large-scale, cross-linguistic study that took such a …

It is generally agreed that language learner autonomy is a matter of learner control and
selfdirection. Most discussion assumes that the crucial distinction is between non …