[EDLING:1794] Educational Linguistics Book Series: Latest Titles

[Francis M Hult]

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Information Technology in Languages for Specific Purposes
Issues and Prospects
Arnó Macià, Elisabet; Soler Cervera, Antonia; Rueda Ramos, Carmen (Eds.) 
2006, XVIII, 268 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 0-387-28595-4 

Work in the field of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) has also been transformed by 
technology. This volume offers an overview of a variety of applications of IT in the 
field of LSP. It is addressed to a wide audience that includes LSP teachers and 
researchers, although the contents may also be relevant to applied linguists working in 
other fields. This book contains research studies as well as educational experiences 
and proposals, presented from different perspectives and backgrounds (both geographical 
and cultural), all of which are theoretically grounded and with a clear and sound 
rationale. Readers will find a variety of educational projects and research studies 
situated in specific educational contexts and in particular geographical locations. 
Although not intended for generalization, we believe they are valuable technology-based 
educational solutions that can offer new insight and reflections that may help readers 
create their own tools and carry out further research. The chapters cover the main 
areas of research and practice in the field. 


Learning Languages, Learning Life-skills
Autobiographical Reflexive Approach to Teaching and Learning a Foreign Language
Jaatinen, Riitta 
2007, Approx. 235 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 0-387-37063-3 

Available: December 2006

Learning Languages, Learning Life Skills offers an autobiographical reflexive approach 
to foreign language education. The orientation of the book is practical, containing 
rich descriptions of language learning situations including authentic language use and 
student stories.

Teaching, including planning, methods, classroom work and evaluation, and case studies 
of "good" language learning and how dialogue based on reminiscing can be used to 
promote students’ well-being in the language classroom are described in detail. Many 
practical examples of how to develop autobiographical reflexive approach, based on the 
phenomenological philosophy, and methodology, are presented. Learning Languages, 
Learning Life Skills significantly enhances the communicative approach and going beyond 
it into a new paradigm, whereby foreign language teaching and learning are seen as 
foreign language education.

The book offers unique ways of developing vocational language teaching as an integrated 
holistic approach combining language contents with vocationally relevant topics and the 
interactive, dialogical processes of working in language classes. Presented in a 
"common sense" way and accessible to non-native English readers, Learning Languages, 
Learning Life Skills will be of interest to teachers as well as researchers in the 
areas of applied and educational linguistics.