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Principles of Language Acquisition

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Foreign Language Teaching, Part 1
Foreign Language Teaching, Part 1

Learning Objectives Recognize how technology can help foster authentic learning and student choice; Identify common tools to support communication, collaboration, creativity, and student choice. Technology provides so many ways for student…

English Language Learning
English Language Learning

Learning Objectives Understand the concept of learner empowerment; Identify resources that can help develop learner autonomy and multiliteracies. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the notion of learner empowerment and provide available…

Foreign Language Teaching, Part 2
Foreign Language Teaching, Part 2

Learning Objectives Understand the concept of communicative competence; Identify resources to help support authenticity and collaboration and the creation of effective learning environments. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the notion…

Teaching and Teacher Education
Teaching and Teacher Education

By undertaking a comprehensive analysis of the top cited research articles in teaching and teacher education over the past 50 years, this chapter identifies trends and issues in this field leading up to and including the year 2020. Data sources inclu…

Huang (2019). A Game Module Within a Game-based Second-language Learning Environment
Huang (2019). A Game Module Within a Game-based Second-language Learning Environment

This showcase is one part of a game-based second-language (L2) learning environment. The design is based on game-based learning (GBL) and task-based language teaching (TBLT) approaches. Based on the prior games in that learners identify numbers and p…

The Ecology of Study Abroad for Language Learning
The Ecology of Study Abroad for Language Learning

This report presents a review of study abroad research conducted from an ecological perspective (Kramsch, 2003; Leather & van Dam, 2003; van Lier, 2004) and identifies areas of inquiry that are lacking compared to second language acquisition and …