New Directions for Research in Foreign Language Education

New Directions for Research in Foreign Language Education examines the challenges, opportunities and benefits of teaching and learning foreign languages, with a particular focus on languages other than English. This book looks at the socio-political dimension of language learning and teaching and the need to re-theorize multilingualism for our age.

List of contents

PART 1: Changing rationales for language study

1. Navigating precarious territory: Teaching Turkish in Greek-Cypriot classrooms
Panayiota Charalambous, Constadina Charalambous and Ben Rampton


2. Language learning as opportunity across the life span
Simon Coffey


3. Foreign language teaching for citizenship development
Mairin Hennebry

PART 2: Foreign language study for global multilingualism


4. Not English but English-within-multilingualism
Jennifer Jenkins


5. 'Glocal languages': The 'globalness' and the 'localness' of world languages
Manuela Guilherme


6. L2 learning outside the classroom: new directions for research on intercultural interactions during study abroad
Rachel Shively

PART 3: Critical perspectives in the classroom


7. French language textbooks as ideologically imbued cultural artefacts: Political economy, neoliberalism and (self) branding
David Block and John Gray


8. The need for new directions in modern foreign language teaching at English secondary schools
Ursula Wingate and Nick Andon


9. Developing competence for French as a foreign language within a plurilingual paradigm
Nathalie Auger

PART 4: Innovations in policy and practice


10. Assessing the diverse linguistic and cultural repertoires of students of diverse languages
Angela Scarino


11. Embedding the assessment into the learning: a new direction for high-stakes speaking assessments
Martin East


12. Toward an educational policy for U.S. collegiate foreign language instruction:
    Curricular considerations

Heidi Byrnes
Afterword
Claire Kramsch

About the author

Simon Coffey is Senior Lecturer in Modern Languages Education at King's College London, UK. He is joint editor of the Language Learning Journal.
Ursula Wingate is Senior Lecturer in Language in Education and works in the School of Education, Communication and Society at King's College London, UK.

Summary

New Directions for Research in Foreign Language Education examines the challenges, opportunities and benefits of teaching and learning foreign languages, with a particular focus on languages other than English. This book looks at the socio-political dimension of language learning and teaching and the need to re-theorize multilingualism for our age.

Product details

• Authors: Simon (De Montfort University) Wingate Coffey, Simon (King''''s College London Coffey
• Assisted by: Simon Coffey (Editor), Coffey Simon (Editor), Ursula Wingate (Editor), Wingate Ursula (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138673991
• ISBN: 978-1-138-67399-1
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Education, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Language teaching and learning, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Bilingualism and multilingualism, Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy