Handbook of Language Teaching

By Michael H. Long

Book Overview

Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, this Handbook is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference guide to language teaching. A comprehensive reference work on language teaching, which combines the latest research findings, coverage of core topics, and examples of teaching experience from a variety of languages and settings Provides a unique breadth of coverage, including: the psycholinguistic underpinnings of language learning; social, political, and educational contexts; program design; materials writing and course design; teaching and testing; teacher education; and assessment and evaluation Offers a balanced evaluation of the major positions and approaches, including examining the increasingly important social and political context of language teaching Written by an international and interdisciplinary group of authors from a dozen different countries; English is only one of the many languages used as examples throughout the volume

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405154896
• ISBN13: 9781405154895
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 824 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.0" x 9.8"