Overview
- Truly global coverage of language and education
- Necessary reference for every university and college library topic
- Essential research on foreign language education
- The text of each review is followed by a reference list containing about 30 key references mentioned in the text
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Keywords
- Bilingual
- Bilingual education
- CLIL
- Computer-Mediated Communication
- Computer-assisted
- Distance learning
- Language Learning
- Professional communication
- Teacher training
- Theoretical
- language
- language teaching
- linguistics
- second language
About this book
This volume presents the most recent theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical insights on foreign and second language learning and teaching in diverse educational settings and situations, learner populations, proficiency levels and teaching practices.
Five thematic sections each include theoretical and practical approaches to second and foreign language education:
• Theoretical underpinnings
• Current approaches
• International perspectives
• Teacher preparation and professional development
• The role of technology
This is one of ten volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education published by Springer. The Encyclopedia bears testimony to the dynamism and evolution of the language and education field, as it confronts the ever-burgeoning and irrepressible linguistic diversity and ongoing pressures and expectations placed on education around the world.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nancy H. Hornberger is Professor of Education and Director of Educational Linguistics at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. Her interests include language planning and policy; bilingualism, bilingual education and biliteracy; and the ethnography of communication.
Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl is director of the Center for Language Study at Yale University. She focuses her research on sociolinguistics and foreign language education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Second and Foreign Language Education
Book Subtitle: Encyclopedia of Language and EducationVolume 4
Editors: Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl, Nancy H. Hornberger
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media LLC 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9463-6Published: 31 July 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 419