Faces of English Education: Students, Teachers and Pedagogy

Faces of English Education provides an accessible, wide-ranging introduction tocurrent perspectives on English language education. Covering new areas of interest and recent studies in seventeen specially commissioned chapters by international experts and practitioners, this book:

• offers an authoritative discussion of theoretical issues and debates surrounding key topics such as identity, motivation, teacher education and classroom pedagogy;
• discusses teaching from the perspective of the student as well as the teacher, and features sections on both in- and out-of-class learning;
• showcases the latest teaching research and methods, including MOOCs, use of corpora, and blended learning, and addresses the interface between theory and practice;
• analyses the different ways and contexts in which English is taught, learned and used around the world.

Faces of English Education is essential reading for pre- and in-service teachers; researchers in TESOL, applied linguistics, and teacher educators, as well as upper undergraduate and postgraduate students studying related topics.