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Towards a New Pedagogy for Teaching Foreign Language Politeness

Author : Gerrard Mugford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000784959
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Towards a New Pedagogy for Teaching Foreign Language Politeness written by Gerrard Mugford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how foreign language speakers establish and maintain social and transactional relationships in their target language, and how pedagogic intervention can help learners implement practices that will allow them to participate and react in both socially acceptable and individualistically empowering ways. Arguing that ‘doing’ foreign-language politeness and culture does not simply involve the indiscriminate and uncritical adoption and implementation of target-language patterns and practices, the author advocates instead for active, judicious and even critical social action. As such, the book presents a dynamic and vibrant dimension to target language politeness and cultural practices, demonstrating that raising learners’ critical language awareness in identifying productive communicative resources and assets can lead to successful interpersonal and transactional communication. Building on this notion of a ‘positive’ pedagogy, Halliday’s model of ideational, interpersonal and textual is utilised as a framework for exploring how foreign language users can approach target language politeness in terms of prosocial, interpersonal and contested politeness, with reference to a study of Mexican speakers of English as a foreign language. Heightening awareness of foreign language politeness patterns and practices, as well as presenting knowledge and resources for overcoming challenges and accentuating benefits of a nuanced learning scheme for politeness in foreign language, this book will appeal to language educators, researchers and bilingual speakers. It will also benefit those working across pragmatics, sociolinguistics, TESOL, cultural studies.

Towards a New Pedagogy for Teaching Foreign Language Politeness

Author : Gerrard Mugford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032352602
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book Towards a New Pedagogy for Teaching Foreign Language Politeness written by Gerrard Mugford and published by . This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines how foreign language speakers establish and maintain social and transactional relationships in their target language, and how pedagogic intervention can help learners implement practices that will allow them to participate and react in both socially acceptable and individualistically empowering ways. Arguing that 'doing' foreign-language politeness and culture does not simply involve the indiscriminate and uncritical adoption and implementation of target-language patterns and practices, the author advocates instead for active, judicious and even critical social action. As such, the book presents a dynamic and vibrant dimension to target language politeness and cultural practices, demonstrating that raising learners' critical language awareness in identifying productive communicative resources and assets can lead to successful interpersonal and transactional communication. Building on this notion of a 'positive' pedagogy, Halliday's model of ideational, interpersonal and textual is utilised as a framework for exploring how foreign language users can approach target language politeness in terms of prosocial, interpersonal and contested politeness, with reference to a study of Mexican speakers of English as a foreign language. Heightening awareness of foreign language politeness patterns and practices, as well as presenting knowledge and resources for overcoming challenges and accentuating benefits of a nuanced learning scheme for politeness in foreign language, this book will appeal to language educators, researchers and bilingual speakers. It will also benefit those working across pragmatics, sociolinguistics, TESOL, cultural studies"--

Exploring the Power of Social Talk in a Foreign Language

Author : Gerrard Mugford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003826121
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Exploring the Power of Social Talk in a Foreign Language by : Gerrard Mugford

Download or read book Exploring the Power of Social Talk in a Foreign Language written by Gerrard Mugford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the fundamental interactional dimension to foreign language communication, including the establishment, development, consolidation and maintenance of interpersonal relations. It argues that interpersonal language use such as small talk, casual conversation and gossipy talk is not only key to meaningful and productive communication but that it is an essential dimension with respect to successful foreign language interaction and that engaging in interpersonal language is communicatively valuable and worthwhile in its own right. Crucially, it explores how teaching and learning can utilize the role of social talk and relational engagement in helping interactants to express, voice and convey their own values, attitudes and beliefs. Finally, it develops a critical relational pedagogy focused on language speakers’ needs, objectives and desires. Redressing the imbalance between transactional and interactional language teaching, and stressing the importance of phatic and relational language use in helping language users achieve their communicative goals, it will appeal to researchers, postgraduates, and scholars in the fields of education and linguistics.

Teaching and Learning (Im)Politeness

Author : Barbara Pizziconi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501501674
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Teaching and Learning (Im)Politeness by : Barbara Pizziconi

Download or read book Teaching and Learning (Im)Politeness written by Barbara Pizziconi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection combines research from the field of (im)politeness studies with research on language pedagogy and language learning. It aims to engender a useful dialogue between (im)politeness theorists, language teachers, and SLA researchers, and also to broaden the enquiry to naturalistic contexts other than L2 acquisition classrooms, by formulating 'teaching' and 'learning' as processes of socialization, cultural transmission, and adaptation.

Teaching with Dystopian Text

Author : Michael Arthur Soares
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000984079
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Teaching with Dystopian Text written by Michael Arthur Soares and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching with Dystopian Text propounds an exchange of spatial to pedagogical practices centered around “Orwellian Spaces,” signaling a new utility for teaching with dystopian texts in secondary education. The volume details the urgency of dystopian texts for secondary students, providing theoretical frameworks, classroom examples and practical research. The function of dystopian texts, such as George Orwell’s 1984, as social and political critique is demonstrated as central to their power. Teaching with Dystopian Text: Exploring Orwellian Spaces for Student Empowerment and Resilience makes a case that dystopian texts can be instrumental in the transfer of spatial practices to pedagogical practices. Pedagogical application creates links between the text and the student through defamiliarization, connecting the student to practices of resistance in the space of the classroom. The volume also addresses the challenges of teaching dystopian text in a dystopian educational climate including the COVID-19 lockdown. In addition to appealing to scholars and researchers of literacy education, language education and dystopian text, this book will also be a powerful yet accessible resource for secondary teachers as they address dystopian concerns with students in the complicated twenty-first century.

Literacy Practices in Sports and Coaching

Author : Rebecca G. Harper
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040021360
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Literacy Practices in Sports and Coaching by : Rebecca G. Harper

Download or read book Literacy Practices in Sports and Coaching written by Rebecca G. Harper and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the ways in which literacy skills, including both reading and writing instruction, are introduced, reinforced, reviewed, and refined in a sports or physical education setting. While there has been significant research that highlights the academic benefits of sports participation and the use of sports programming and units for literacy instruction in the classroom, there is limited research regarding the literacy practices that occur as a direct part of sports participation. This book addresses this crucial gap in the scholarship. The argument presented in this manuscript contends that a number of literacy skills and competencies are taught in and through a number of sports programs and explores how they are effectively and naturally integrated into structured athletics/sports programming. Addressing engagement with literacy skills and competencies in a unique setting, it provides a new lens from which readers can view reading and writing. This book will be of critical interest to scholars and researchers with interests in literacy education and sports education, as well as instructional coaches, sports coaches, literacy educators, health and physical education teachers, middle and secondary educators, and administrators.

Critical Perspectives on Global Literacies

Author : Shea N. Kerkhoff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000883019
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Perspectives on Global Literacies by : Shea N. Kerkhoff

Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Global Literacies written by Shea N. Kerkhoff and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers critical perspectives on global literacies, connecting research, theory, and practice. An emerging concept in the literacy field, many scholars agree on the need for students to develop global literacies, yet few agree on a widely accepted definition. Based on a synthesis of the literature, the editors formulate a definition of global literacies with four dimensions, including: literacy as a human right in all nations around the world; critical reading and creation of multimodal texts about global issues; intercultural communication and reciprocal collaboration with globally diverse others; and transformative action for social and environmental justice that traverses borders. Taking this shared, proposed definition as a starting point, the chapters then offer contextualized examples of global literacies from K-12 and teacher education classrooms to make explicit links between research and practice. The contributors interact with and interrogate the book’s definition of global literacies using a common framework of critical theory. As such, this book provides both emerging and established scholars with critical frameworks for positioning global literacies in ways that are relevant, dynamic, and forward thinking.

Politeness in the Foreign Language-Classroom

Author : Malte Harms
Publisher : Grin Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783668434318
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Book Synopsis Politeness in the Foreign Language-Classroom by : Malte Harms

Download or read book Politeness in the Foreign Language-Classroom written by Malte Harms and published by Grin Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Hannover, language: English, abstract: It is the aim of this paper to analyze how politeness currently is - and how politeness potentially could be - taught in foreign language classrooms. The focus will be on how foreign language students are - or could be - instructed to perform speech acts that usually require forms of politeness. Teaching politeness will not be reduced to the introduction of cultural stereotypes and basic rules of behavior in language teaching, it will rather be understood as all forms of the pragmatic knowledge required to develop true intercultural communicative competence in the foreign language student. It is argued that currently teaching pragmatics only plays a minor role in foreign language teaching, but that this knowledge is crucial to build up intercultural communicative competence as it is demanded by the CEFR and foreign language curricula. To prove this thesis, current textbooks for teaching English as a foreign language will be examined for teaching activities that include aspects of foreign language pragmatics or politeness. In a subsequent chapter, the didactics and methodology of instructional pragmatics will be discussed on the basis of literature from the field of pedagogy.

Improving Foreign Language Teaching

Author : Ernesto Macaro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317674758
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Improving Foreign Language Teaching written by Ernesto Macaro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving Foreign Language Teaching provides teachers and teacher trainers with a research-based structure for the effective teaching and assessment of second languages. As well as outlining a model for teacher development, the book identifies and exemplifies eight key principles for effective language learning, which can be used to guide curriculum design and decisions about classroom pedagogy. Improving Foreign Language Teaching also presents practical activities, related materials, and guidance on how student progress can be monitored and recorded. Based on the research of the authors and other international experts, together with the work of a consortium established by the authors and teachers in a range of secondary schools, the book focusses on the development of language skills and communicative competence. It also proposes an assessment system which better reflects how learners progress in language learning than current models. Taking as its starting point the challenge of a curriculum in flux and complex pedagogical approaches, this book offers clear research-informed guidance for effective planning, teaching and learning. It will be essential reading for all those concerned with the improvement of language learning and teaching in the secondary classroom.

Politeness in the Foreign Language-Classroom

Author : Marc Felsbrecher
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668434301
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)

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Book Synopsis Politeness in the Foreign Language-Classroom by : Marc Felsbrecher

Download or read book Politeness in the Foreign Language-Classroom written by Marc Felsbrecher and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, , language: English, abstract: It is the aim of this paper to analyze how politeness currently is – and how politeness potentially could be – taught in foreign language classrooms. The focus will be on how foreign language students are – or could be – instructed to perform speech acts that usually require forms of politeness. Teaching politeness will not be reduced to the introduction of cultural stereotypes and basic rules of behavior in language teaching, it will rather be understood as all forms of the pragmatic knowledge required to develop true intercultural communicative competence in the foreign language student. It is argued that currently teaching pragmatics only plays a minor role in foreign language teaching, but that this knowledge is crucial to build up intercultural communicative competence as it is demanded by the CEFR and foreign language curricula. To prove this thesis, current textbooks for teaching English as a foreign language will be examined for teaching activities that include aspects of foreign language pragmatics or politeness. In a subsequent chapter, the didactics and methodology of instructional pragmatics will be discussed on the basis of literature from the field of pedagogy.

Learning Politeness

Author : Ian Walkinshaw
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039115273
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (152 download)

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Book Synopsis Learning Politeness by : Ian Walkinshaw

Download or read book Learning Politeness written by Ian Walkinshaw and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how Japanese learners of English learned about managing politeness while they were studying at language schools in New Zealand. Specifically, it investigates how they learned to produce and interpret a range of disagreement strategies during oppositional talk with native speakers of English. Employing a combined qualitative and quantitative approach to data analysis, the book discusses the initial pragmatic competence of the learners, and describes how their competence developed over a ten-week period. The book outlines some points of cultural divergence which may have influenced the direction and the extent of the learners' pragmatic development. It also sheds light on the language-acquisition strategies utilised by the learners during their tenure in the host culture. Most crucially, the book illuminates patterns of directness and indirectness in the learners' selected disagreement strategies. These patterns challenge the generally accepted theory that politeness always increases with social distance.

Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language

Author : Zia Tajeddin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000298558
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language by : Zia Tajeddin

Download or read book Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language written by Zia Tajeddin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language aims to bring to light L2 pragmatics instruction and assessment in relation to English as an International Language (EIL). The chapters in this book deal with a range of pedagogically related topics, including the historical interface between L2 pragmatics and EIL, reconceptualization of pragmatic competence in EIL, intercultural dimension of pragmatics pedagogy in EIL, teacher pragmatic awareness of instruction in the context of EIL, pragmatics of politeness in EIL, pragmatic teaching materials for EIL pedagogy, teachers’ and scholars’ perceptions of pragmatics pedagogy in EIL, assessment and assessment criteria in EIL-aware pragmatics, and methods for research into pragmatics in EIL. This book is different from other books about both EIL pedagogy and pragmatics pedagogy. Exploring the interface between different dimensions of pragmatics pedagogy and EIL, it suggests instructional and assessment tasks for EIL-aware pedagogy and directions for research on EIL-based pragmatics pedagogy. Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language will be useful for a range of readers who have an interest in the pragmatics instruction and assessment of EIL as well as those whose main area of specialization is EIL but would like to know how EIL, with its rich conceptual and empirical background, can go beyond linguistic instruction to embrace the instruction of pragmatic competence.

Developing Cross-Cultural Relational Ability in Foreign Language Learning

Author : Gerrard Mugford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000412075
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Developing Cross-Cultural Relational Ability in Foreign Language Learning by : Gerrard Mugford

Download or read book Developing Cross-Cultural Relational Ability in Foreign Language Learning written by Gerrard Mugford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By reconceptualizing successful communication in a foreign language as an enjoyable and uplifting experience, this volume moves beyond a focus on grammatical accuracy and fluency to foreground the ways in which foreign language learners can be encouraged to build on previous achievements and communicative successes in the target language and so develop confidence, commitment and cross-cultural relational ability. Building on Mugford’s previous volume, Addressing Difficult Situations in Foreign-Language Learning (2019), this text draws on grounded qualitative data collected through questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and conversations with Spanish-speaking learners of English, to illustrate how learners’ experiences and insights can be used to inform a productive pedagogy centred around language users’ communicative objectives and interactional successes. Chapters highlight bilingual speakers’ conscious language use, practices and choices in the target language and the reasons and implications for such deliberate communicative practices and relational behaviour. In doing so, Mugford is able to outline a critical relational pedagogy designed to better equip language learners with the confidence and pragmatic resources they require to engage in positive cross-cultural relational work. As a valuable, student-centred contribution to teaching and learning of modern foreign languages, this volume will be key reading for researchers, scholars and educators with an interest in language education, TESOL, World Language teaching and Applied Linguistics.

English as an International Language

Author : Farzad Sharifian
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847691226
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book English as an International Language written by Farzad Sharifian and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2009 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collectively, the chapters in this volume make a significant contribution to the emerging paradigm of English as an International Language (EIL) by exploring various aspects of the English language and its pedagogy in the context of the globalization of this language. The volume shows great deal of promise in terms of expanding the paradigm and also establishing new grounds for thinking, research, and practice.

Foreign Language Pedagogy in the Light of Cognitive Linguistics Research

Author : Grzegorz Drożdż
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030587754
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Foreign Language Pedagogy in the Light of Cognitive Linguistics Research by : Grzegorz Drożdż

Download or read book Foreign Language Pedagogy in the Light of Cognitive Linguistics Research written by Grzegorz Drożdż and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes another step of the linguistic community in translating cognitive linguistics research into a set of guidelines applicable in the foreign language classroom. The authors, language scholars, and experienced practitioners discuss a collection of both more theoretical and practical issues from the area of second and foreign language pedagogy. These are matters that not only enhance our comprehension of particular grammatical and lexical problems, but also lead to the improvement of the efficiency of teaching a foreign language. The topics range from learners’ emotions, teaching grammatical constructions, prepositions, and vocabulary, to specific issues in phonology. The observations concern the teaching of three different languages: English, French, and Italian. As a result, the book is of interest to scholars dealing with further developments of particular linguistic issues and practitioners who want to learn how to improve the quality of their classroom work.

Readings in Second Language Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition

Author : Asako Yoshitomi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027293457
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Readings in Second Language Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition by : Asako Yoshitomi

Download or read book Readings in Second Language Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition written by Asako Yoshitomi and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The selected contributions of this volume focus on various issues related to second language pedagogy and second language acquisition in the Japanese context. Part I covers such topics as discourse pragmatics and cross-cultural pragmatics in language teaching; the instruction of conversation through training in story telling skills; task activities as a means for grammarization in grammar teaching; the development of a computerized speaking test and a proficiency scale for EFL learners; and the social aspects of the language teacher expertise. Part II deals with the cognitive transformation involved in the acquisition of syntactic structures; the application of ZPD to adult learners not only in terms of interpersonal interaction but also through interfacing with other media; examination of learners’ narrative data to analyze linguistic and gestural reference and to investigate learners’ use of phrasal verbs; learner’s strategy use in self-instruction that utilizes audiovisual materials; and network computer technology in computer-assisted language learning.

TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, Second Edition

Author : MANISH A. VYAS
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 8120351525
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, Second Edition written by MANISH A. VYAS and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Language Teaching (ELT), especially English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL), has been witnessing unprecedented changes in curriculum, teaching methodology, and the application of learning theories. This has created a demand for teachers who can teach English to learners of varied cultural, socio-economic and psychological backgrounds. The book, in its second edition, continues to discuss the modern trends, innovations, as well as the difficulties and challenges in teaching and learning ESL in a non-native context. The book, with contributions from many experts (each one specializing in a particular field) from countries such as UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, India, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, China, and Japan, provides new methods, strategies and application-oriented solutions to overcome the problems in a practical way. The book deals with all topics pertinent to English as a Second Language or English for the non-native speakers, and these are further reinforced by a large number of examples and quotations from different sources. The new edition comes along with thoroughly improvised chapters on Narrative Inquiry for Teacher Development (Chapter 13) and Mass Media, Language Attitudes and Language Interaction Phenomena (Chapter 23): to provide an insight on the innovative approaches in Teacher training and in classrooms, and new approaches and changing language dimensions in the world of media, and in general. What distinguishes the text is its focus on modern innovations and use of technology in ELT/CLT (Communicative Language Teaching). Postgraduate Students of English, teachers, teacher-trainees (B.Ed./M.A. Education/M.Ed.), and teacher-educators who are concerned with teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) should find this book immensely helpful.a