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Selected Books & Journal Articles
Academic Books
Becoming a language teacher
A practical guide to second language learning and teaching
2nd ed.
Elaine Horwitz (2020)
Elaine K. Horwitz gives pre- and in-service teachers the skills they need to meet the needs of all language learners in today's diverse classrooms-while encouraging them to develop a personal approach... [more]
Smart CALL
Personalization, contextualization, & socialization
Jozef Colpaert, Glenn Stockwell (Eds.) (2022)
This book brings together some thought-provoking papers around the theme of “Smart CALL.” The term “smart” nowadays means “connected to and exchanging information with other devices.” The contributions ... [more]
Insights into professional development in language teaching
Thomas S.C. Farrell (2022)
A language teacher's work is never really done. From entering a teacher education program for initial qualifications onwards, language teachers must always be on the lookout for new approaches, methods ... [more]
Insights into flipped classrooms
Adrian Leis (2022)
This book is aimed at pedagogy students interested in the flipped learning method as well as language teachers who are considering or are already incorporating flipped learning in their classes. The book ... [more]
Insights into teaching and learning writing
A practical guide for early-career teachers
Hassan Mohebbi (Ed.) (2022)
Writing is one of the most challenging skills for a language learner to acquire due its sheer complexity, and language teachers are faced with a demanding task in the teaching and testing of writing. A ... [more]
CDG Books
Natalie Shaw: Maps and Bodies
Jane Stockwell (2021)
Natalie Shaw is an architect, and her idea of excitement is enjoying a coffee after a long day at work. Little did she know that a blood-stained map in a fortune cookie and a body in a building she designed ... [more]
The Indie Musician's Handbook
Achieving your goals as an independent musician in the modern world
Benedict Roff-Marsh (2022)
The Indie Musician’s Guidebook is designed to help you find the right mindset and path to travel as you write, record, and publish your music. Oh, and that marketing thing too. If it so happens ... [more]
Professional Books
Global Fitness for Global People
How to Manage and Leverage Cultural Diversity at Work
Helen Spencer-Oatey, Peter Franklin, Domna Lazidou (2022)
Global Fitness for Global People is for all those wanting to thrive in today’s global workplaces and to flourish in culturally diverse contexts. For this you need Global Fitness. Such competence ... [more]
Textbooks
Professional Academic Writing
Phuong Tran (2018)
Professional Academic Writing is designed to provide learners of English with the tools they need to write an academic essay comfortably and confidently. The book is in six parts: Preparing to write an ... [more]
Academic Journals
Promoting acts of kindness on campus: Views of Chinese international students in the UK
Intercultural Communication Education Published 30 April, 2022, Volume 5(1), pp. 17-32.
Tasks, self-efficacy, and L2 motivational self system in an online emergency EFL speaking class: A mixed-methods study
The JALT CALL Journal Published 2 April, 2022, Volume 18(1), pp. 1-33.
Implementing backward design to foster intercultural communicative competence in textbook-based curricula: A proposed framework for English language practitioners
Intercultural Communication Education Published 30 April, 2022, Volume 5(1), pp. 1-16.
Challenges and responses: A Complex Dynamic Systems approach to exploring language teacher agency in a blended classroom
The JALT CALL Journal Published 9 April, 2022, Volume 18(1), pp. 54-82.
The effects of corpus use on learning L2 collocations
The JALT CALL Journal Published 9 April, 2022, Volume 18(1), pp. 34-53.
Captions and learnability factors in learning grammar from audio-visual input
The JALT CALL Journal Published 9 April, 2022, Volume 18(1), pp. 83-109.
Chinese language learners evaluating machine translation accuracy
The JALT CALL Journal Published 9 April, 2022, Volume 18(1), pp. 110-136.
Statistical analysis of the impact of the e-learning platform Furago on French learners’ listening skills
The JALT CALL Journal Published 9 April, 2022, Volume 18(1), pp. 137-161.