Language Education Programs

lt;p>Zia Tajeddin is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Tarbiat Modares University, Iran. He is the co-editor of the book series Studies in Language Teacher Education (Springer). He co-edits two international journals: Applied Pragmatics (John Benjamins) and Second Language Teacher Education (Equinox). His research interests center on teacher education, language education policies and practices, and L2 pragmatics pedagogy in the context of EIL/ELF. The books he has recently published include Lessons from Good Language Teachers (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language (Routledge, 2021), and Teacher Reflection: Policies, Practices and Impacts (Multilingual Matters).

Carol Griffiths has been a teacher, manager and teacher trainer of ELT for many years. She has taught in many places around the world, including New Zealand, Indonesia, Japan, China, North Korea, Turkey and UK. She is currently working as Professor of ELT for Girne American University in North Cyprus. She has presented at numerous conferences and published widely, including Lessons from Good Language Learners and The Strategy Factor in Successful Language Learning.

SECTION ONE: POLICIES.- University-School Partnerships; Kayoko Hashimoto and Samantha Disbray.- State Language Education Systems; David Hayes.- Language Curriculum Evaluation; Jason Loh and Willy Renandya.- Teacher Education; Zia Tajeddin and Samaneh Eslamdoost.- Plurilingualism; Sarah Moore.- Intercultural Language Teaching; Zia Tajeddin and Neda Khanlarzadeh.- Minority Language Learners' Needs; Eun Sung Park.- Language Assessment; Hassan Mohebbi.- SECTION TWO: PRACTICES.- English for Specific Purposes (ESP); Helen Basturkmen.- Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL); Ronald Kemsies and Georg Hellmayr .- English-Medium Instruction (EMI); Vildan Inci Kavak & Yasemin Kirkgöz.- English as a Lingua Franca Pedagogy; Paul McBride and Glenn Toh.- Learner Agency Empowerment; Thuy Thi Ngoc Bui andThom Thom Thi Nguyen.- Online Language Education Courses; Lu Yunru and Qing Ma.- Digital Technology in Language Teaching; I.G.A. Lokita Purnamika Utami and Sarah Prestridge.