Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften English Language Education Policies and Practices in the Mediterranean Countries and Beyond

Product Description This edited volume seeks ways to present a unifying picture of TESOL policies and practices from different contexts in the broader Mediterranean basin and beyond. The book is divided into three major sections: (i) English language education; (ii) English language teacher education and recruitment policy; (iii) English language testing policies and practices in different contexts. Each chapter has a different research focus (e.g., CLIL, English as an international lingua franca in education, English for specific purposes, etc.), but aims at drawing informed and balanced conclusions with regard to a series of TESOL concerns. Essentially, what this volume provides, and what makes it unique as an edited publication in the field of ESOL education, is a principled awareness of the need to communicate research in one specific domain of teaching and learning to a broader area of ESOL education that is not necessarily delimited by familiar educational practices but can be generalized for other contexts as well. About the Author Yasemin Bayyurt (Ph.D.) is a full professor of applied linguistics at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. Her research focuses on EIL/ELF-aware ESOL teacher education, intercultural communication, mobile language learning. Nicos C. Sifakis is a tenured associate professor at the School of Humanities of the Hellenic Open University and director of its M.Ed. in TESOL programme. He holds a Ph.D. in language and linguistics from the University of Essex, UK.