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  • Peer Feedback in EFL Writing Instruction

    Effects on Chinese Learners’ Text Revisions and Writing Performance

    by Zhiqing Xu, Lawrence Jun Zhang ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This research monograph investigates the immediate effects of peer feedback on text revisions and the long-term effects of peer feedback on writing performance. It also examines students’ processing of peer feedback in revision and explores their perceptions of peer feedback. Peer feedback, an activity in which learners read others’ drafts and make comments on them orally and/or in written mode, ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • Performance in Multimodal Speaking Tests

    Focusing on Strategic Competence and Task Complexity

    by Weiwei Zhang, Lawrence Jun Zhang ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores the complex interplay between test-takers’ strategic competence, task complexity, and performance, focusing on Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). It introduces and empirically validates the Strategic Competence Model of L2 Speaking (SCMLS), the first framework in second language research to clearly conceptualise strategic competence in speaking, designed ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • Unveiling Assessment for Learning

    The Context of Chinese University English-as-a-Foreign-Language Classrooms

    by Xiaoming Molly Wu, Lawrence Jun Zhang ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book delves into the realm of Assessment for Learning (AfL) within English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms in Chinese universities. It explores the viewpoints of both Chinese EFL teachers and learners regarding AfL practices, shedding light on how these practices are perceived, implemented, and contribute to the EFL learning experience. It considers the influence of contextual factors ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Classroom-based Assessment of Young Learners of English as a Foreign Language

    Teachers’ Conceptions and Practices in the Chinese Context

    by Qiaozhen Yan, Lawrence Jun Zhang ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book investigates conceptions and practices of teachers of young learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) regarding classroom-based assessment (CBA) in the Chinese context. Specifically, it sets out to examine teachers’ conceptions about the purposes and processes of classroom-based assessment, the effects of teacher attributes (teaching experience, and previous education in assessment ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Language Teachers and Teaching

    Global Perspectives, Local Initiatives

    Edited by Selim Ben Said, Lawrence Jun Zhang ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This volume gathers contributions from a range of global experts in teacher education to address the topic of language teacher education. It shows how teacher education involves the agency of teachers, which forms part of their identity, and which they take on when integrating into the teaching community of practice. In addition, the volume explores the teachers’ situated *practice--*thedynamic ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Think-Aloud Protocols in Second Language Writing

    A Mixed-Methods Study of Their Reactivity and Veridicality

    by Chengsong Yang, Lawrence Jun Zhang ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book addresses the validity of think-aloud protocols (TAPs) in L2 writing research through a mixed methods study and proposes effective approaches for their valid implementation. The book uncovers the reactive effects that TAPs have on L2 writing performance and processes, and examines how individual factors moderate this reactivity. It further presents and categorizes participants' ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Crossing Borders, Writing Texts, Being Evaluated

    Cultural and Disciplinary Norms in Academic Writing

    Edited by Anne Golden, Lars Anders Kulbrandstad, Dr. Lawrence Jun Zhang ...
    Series Book 97 - New Perspectives on Language and Education
    This book provides critical perspectives on issues relating to writing norms and assessment, as well as writing proficiency development, and suggests that scholars need to both carefully examine testing regimes and develop research-informed perspectives on tests and testing practices. In this way schools, institutions of adult education and universities can better prepare learners with differing ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Teaching Writing in English as a Foreign Language

    Teachers’ Cognition Formation and Reformation

    by Huan Zhao, Lawrence Jun Zhang ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores teachers’ cognitions about the teaching of writing in English as a foreign language (EFL) and their teaching practice, as well as factors influencing the formation and reformation process of their cognition. Taking stock of Bakhtin’s dialogism as the theoretical framework, the authors argue that the formation and reformation of teacher cognition is a dialogic process. A ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

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  • Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family

    by Wang, Xiao-lei ...
    Drawing on interdisciplinary research, as well as the experiences of parents of multilingual children, this book walks parents through the multilingual reading and writing process from infancy to adolescence. It identifies essential skills at each developmental stage and proposes effective strategies that facilitate multiliteracy, in particular, heritage-language literacy development in the home ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Washback in Language Testing

    Research Contexts and Methods

    Edited by Liying Cheng, Yoshinori Watanabe, WITH Andy Curtis ...
    Washback refers to the influence of language testing on teaching and learning. This volume, at the important intersection of language testing and teaching practices, presents theoretical, methodological, and practical guidance for current and future washback studies.In the field of language testing, researchers' major interest has traditionally been focused on issues and solving problems inherent ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Case Study Research in Applied Linguistics

    by Patricia Duff ...
    Series series Second Language Acquisition Research Series
    Case studies of individual language learners are a valuable means of illustrating issues connected with learning, using, and in some cases, losing another language. Yet, even though increasing numbers of graduate students and scholars conduct research using case studies or mix quantitative and qualitative methods, there are no dedicated applied lin ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning

    Edited by Eli Hinkel ...
    This landmark volume provides a broad-based, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research into second language teaching and learning. Fifty-seven chapters are organized in eight thematic sections:*social contexts of second language learning;*research methodologies in second-language learning, acquisition, and teaching;*contributions of applied linguistics to the teaching and ... Read more

    $199.99 USD