The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching is the definitive reference volume for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students of Applied Linguistics, ELT/TESOL, and Language Teacher Education, and for ELT professionals engaged in in-service teacher development and/or undertaking academic study.

Graham Hall is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics/TESOL at Northumbria University, UK. He is author of Exploring English Language Teaching: Language in Action (2011; 2nd edition, 2017), which was the winner of the 2012 British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) book prize. He was editor of ELT Journal from 2013-17.

List of tables and figures

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Introduction: English language teaching in the contemporary world

PART I

1 World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca: a changing

context for ELT

2 Politics, power relationships and ELT

3 Language and culture in ELT

4 'Native speakers', English and ELT: changing perspectives

5 Educational perspectives on ELT: society and the individual;

traditional, progressive and transformative

PART II

6 Language curriculum design: possibilities and realities

7 ELT materials: claims, critiques and controversies

8 Dealing with the demands of language testing and assessment

9 Language teacher education

10 New technologies, blended learning and the 'flipped classroom'

in ELT

11 English for specific purposes

12 English for academic purposes

13 English for speakers of other languages: language education

and migration

14 Bilingual education in a multilingual world

PART III

15 Method, methods and methodology: historical trends and

current debates

16 Communicative language teaching in theory and practice

17 Task-based language teaching

18 Content and language integrated learning

19 Appropriate methodology: towards a cosmopolitan approach

PART IV

20 Cognitive perspectives on classroom language learning

21 Sociocultural theory and the language classroom

22 Individual differences

23 Motivation

24 Learner autonomy

25 Primary ELT: issues and trends

26 Secondary ELT: issues and trends

PART V

27 Corpora in ELT

28 Language Awareness

29 Teaching language as a system

30 Teaching language skills

31 Teaching literacy

32 Using literature in ELT

PART VI

33 Complexity and language teaching

34 Classroom talk, interaction and collaboration

35 Errors, corrective feedback and repair: variations and

learning outcomes

36 Questioning 'English-only' classrooms: own-language use in ELT

37 Teaching large classes in difficult circumstances

38 Computer-mediated communication and language learning

39 Values in the ELT classroom

Index