Routledge Research in Language Education
About the Book Series
The Routledge Research in Language Education series provides a platform for established and emerging scholars to present their latest research and discuss key issues in Language Education. This series welcomes books on all areas of language teaching and learning, including but not limited to language education policy and politics, multilingualism, literacy, L1, L2 or foreign language acquisition, curriculum, classroom practice, pedagogy, teaching materials, and language teacher education and development. Books in the series are not limited to the discussion of the teaching and learning of English only.
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
Manon Berset: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Murray: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
Social Media and Language Learning: Using TikTok and Instagram
1st Edition
By Yeong-Ju Lee
August 22, 2025
This book explores creative uses of social media for informal language learning. It focuses on the underexplored area of how informal language learning adapts to technological innovations in two multimodal media-sharing platforms: TikTok and Instagram. Drawing on ecological perspectives of language...
Language Teacher Identity Tensions: Nexus of Agency, Emotion, and Investment
1st Edition
Edited
By Zia Tajeddin, Bedrettin Yazan
July 31, 2025
Addressing the critical issue of teacher identity tensions, this edited volume looks at the tensions between teachers’ instructional beliefs, values, and priorities, and the contextual constraints and requirements. It examines how teachers deal with these tensions to avoid demotivation and burnout,...
Performative Language Learning with Refugees and Migrants: Embodied Research and Practice in the Sorgente Project
1st Edition
Edited
By Erika Piazzoli, Fiona Dalziel
July 31, 2025
This book investigates the use of performative language pedagogy in working with refugees and migrants, exploring performative language teaching as the application of drama, music, dance and storytelling to second language acquisition. Documenting a community-based project – funded by the Irish ...
Building the Self-Efficacy Beliefs of English Language Learners and Teachers: New Perspectives for Research, Teaching and Learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Wyatt, Farahnaz Faez
June 27, 2025
Building the Self-Efficacy Beliefs of English Language Learners and Teachers explores, juxtaposes and bridges two fields of research that have developed separately: the self-efficacy beliefs of English language learners and the self-efficacy beliefs of English language teachers. The aim is to ...
Ecological Perspectives in Early Language Education: Parent, Teacher, Peer, and Child Agency in Interaction
1st Edition
By Mila Schwartz
June 27, 2025
This book presents ecological perspectives towards early language education that conceptualise the phenomenon of interactions between child language-based agency, teachers’ agency, peers’ agency and parents’ agency, consequently furthering insights into the lives of young children growing up in ...
English for Academic and Specific Purposes in the Classroom: From Theory to Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosmawati, Marjolijn Verspoor
May 27, 2025
This volume showcases curriculum designs, instructional strategies, classroom challenges, and assessment practices in courses around the world introduced to meet the demand for English language skills for academic (EAP) or specific purposes (ESP) in higher education settings. Particularly in ...
Exploring the Power of Social Talk in a Foreign Language: Possibilities for Integration and Critical Pedagogy
1st Edition
By Gerrard Mugford
May 05, 2025
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...
Non-Native English-Speaking Teachers Revisited: Paradoxes in Multilingual Professionals' Identity Development
1st Edition
By Xuan Zheng
March 31, 2025
Drawing on ethnographical evidence, this book examines the complexity of the controversial construct “Non-Native English-Speaking Teacher” (NNEST) and the newly proposed “translingual/translanguaging teacher” in re-scripting their identities. Zheng examines the process of international graduate ...
Early Childhood Language Education and Literacy Practices in Ethiopia: Perspectives from Indigenous Knowledge, Gender and Instructional Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Kassahun Weldemariam, Margareth Sandvik, Moges Yigezu
January 30, 2025
This edited volume explores how indigenous knowledges and practices can be instrumental in improving literacy outcomes and teacher development practices in Ethiopia, aiding children’s long-term reading, and learning outcomes. The chapters present research from a collaborative project between ...
Assessment of Plurilingual Competence and Plurilingual Learners in Educational Settings: Educative Issues and Empirical Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Silvia Melo-Pfeifer, Christian Ollivier
December 19, 2024
This book addresses contemporary issues in the assessment of plurilingual competence and plurilingual learners. Offering theoretical and practical lenses, it contributes towards an integrated and holistic assessment of plurilingual competence and plurilingual learners. The book provides both ...
Effects of Orthography on Second Language Phonology: Learning, Awareness, Perception and Production
1st Edition
By Bene Bassetti
December 19, 2024
This is the first book devoted to the effects of orthographic forms (spellings) on second language phonology. Written by one of the pioneer researchers in the field, the book provides an authoritative overview of the effects of spellings on the perception, production, awareness, learning and ...
Typical and Atypical Language Development in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
1st Edition
Edited
By Weifeng Han, Chris Brebner
December 18, 2024
Typical and Atypical Language Development in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity brings together state-of-the-art studies in both typical and atypical language development. Placing the topic in the context of cultural and linguistic diversity (CALD), the book offers readers serious theoretical ...