Current Issues in English Language Teaching and Learning. An
International Perspective, edited by Mario Cal Varela, Francisco
Javier Fernández Polo, Lidia Gómez García e Ignacio M. Palacios
Martínez. Newcastle upon Tyne. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN
(10) I.4438 1967-0 (hardback), ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-1967.1 (paperback)
This volume contains a selection of the papers, seminars and workshops
presented in the First International Conference on English Language
Teaching and Learning (ICELT1), held at the University of Santiago de
Compostela, in September 2008, as well as a number of valuable
original contributions by other specialists who were involved in the
conference. It aims to represent the views of teachers, scholars,
researchers, teacher trainers and curriculum developers from all over
the world, from the USA and Japan to Europe. It is addressed to ELT
teachers, researchers and professionals who want to reflect upon and
develop their knowledge and practive of current issues in English
language teaching and learning. Current problems in many of the areas
of ELT are given different solutions depending on the context in which
their respective contributors conduct their work. It is precisely this
international perspective that makes this volume unique and
illustrative of different realities with a similar objective in mind:
the implementation and improvement of English language teaching. The
various contributions have been organised in four main sections that
correspond to the major focal topics of the conference: teacher
training and development, classroom management and practice, new
technologies and language teaching, and research on learner language.
Table of contents
Introduction
Part I: Teacher training and development
'If you can speak in time, you're fine': Preservice Teachers Learning
to Plan for a Focus on Form in Content-Based Instruction
Martha Bigelow
Tools for analysing teacher-learner interaction and pedagogical
decision-making in the EFL classroom: five classroom interactions
Richard J. Hodson
Identifying young learners' learning styles in Greece
Marina Mattheoudakis and Thomai Alexiou
Period of practice abroad for Foreign Language (English) teacher
students from the Faculty of Education (University of Granada).
Students' evaluation of the programme
José Luís Ortega Martín and Elvira Rosales Escabías
Part II: Classroom management and practice
Developing a course in academic writing for Learners of English as a
Second Language
Mª Rosa Alonso Alonso
Differentiated instruction in the English language classroom: A case
for integrating personality factors
Diane W. Gómez
A Dynamic Approach to the Teaching of Language and Culture:
Intercultural Communication in Action on the University Learning
Platform
Alison Nagel
Taking CLIL-Science beyond merely language + science: a case study
F. Gisella Parise and Y. L. Teresa Ting
Part III: New technologies and language teaching
Electronic language portfolios as a tool for autonomous learning: The
LOLIPOP project
Mario Cal Varela and Francisco Javier Fernández Polo
New contexts and new challenges in the field of English for Academic
Purposes: GRAPE. Online Activities
Mercedes Querol-Julián and Mª Noelia Ruiz-Madrid
Immersed in the digital age: podcasts as a tool for the development of
listening comprehension in the foreign language classroom
Ana María Ramos García and Beatriz Cortina Pérez
Part IV: Research on learner language
S-assimilation in English and Italian: implications for foreign
language learning and teaching
Nicole Bosisio
Collaborative problem solving strategies in learner-learner and
learner-native speaker interaction
Ana Fernández Dobao
Introducing the MORPHEUS ('MORPHological corpus of the English of
University Students'): Features, Aims, Results and Applications
Paula López Rúa
Is the usage of clausal complementation particular in learner oral language? A
corpus-based comparison of complement clauses in EFL learner and
native oral language
Beatriz Tizón Couto
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Notes
Bibliography
List of contributors
Index