Key Issues in Language Teaching
By J. Richards. 2015
365 citations recorded by the source corpus.
A comprehensive and extensively researched overview of key issues in language teaching today. This essential text, also available to purchase separately as an enhanced eBook with embedded video, surveys a broad range of core topics that are essential in understanding contemporary approaches to teaching English as a second or international language, and which form the content of many professional development courses for language teachers. A wide range of issues is examined, including a consideration of the nature of English in the world, the way the English teaching profession works, the development of teaching methods, the nature of classroom teaching, teaching the four skills, teaching the language system, and elements of a language program.
Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory
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In Language and Linguistics
- Martha C. Pennington
- R. Pishghadam
- J. Richards
- Ali Derakhshan
- K. Zhaleh
- Liqqa Habeb Al-Obaydi
- Larry Vandergrift
- Ken Hyland
In Literature and Literary Theory
- Martha C. Pennington
- J. Richards
- R. Pishghadam
- Ali Derakhshan
- Ken Hyland
- Paul Thompson
- D. Lasagabaster
Citations in the corpus
- Students’ willingness to attend EFL classes with respect to teachers’ credibility, stroke, and success: A cross-cultural study of Iranian and Iraqi students’ perceptions (2021, background): “Now that the literature on the teacher variables and the WTAC concept has been elaborated upon, it is time to point out that culture is one of the central variables incessantly shaping and reshaping the way teachers behave, think, and teach and also the way teachers’ psychological or performance cha”
- Teacher Identity in Language Teaching: Integrating Personal, Contextual, and Professional Factors (2016, methodology): “Skills can be learned, but not those good qualities that are already part of one’s personality (cited in Richards, 2015b: 107).”