Routledge Research in Language Education
About the Book Series
The Routledge Research in Language Education series provides a platform for established and emerging scholars to present their latest research and discuss key issues in Language Education. This series welcomes books on all areas of language teaching and learning, including but not limited to language education policy and politics, multilingualism, literacy, L1, L2 or foreign language acquisition, curriculum, classroom practice, pedagogy, teaching materials, and language teacher education and development. Books in the series are not limited to the discussion of the teaching and learning of English only.
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
Manon Berset: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Murray: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
Methodological Issues and Reflexivity Practices in Qualitative Language Teacher Education Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Gloria Park, Oksana Moroz, Sarah Henderson Lee, Bedrettin Yazan
November 27, 2025
This volume brings together researchers from around the world, including Mexico, USA, China, Japan, Iran, Turkiye, Indonesia and the UAE, conducting qualitative research in the field of language teacher education. Each chapter highlights cutting-edge research in language teacher education with ...
Mediation as Negotiation of Meanings, Plurilingualism and Language Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Bessie Dendrinos
October 27, 2025
Bringing together the voices of a diverse group of scholars and language professionals, this edited collection, concerned with the cultivation of plurilingualism in multilingual educational settings, builds on the theory and practice of linguistic and cultural mediation both as curricular content ...
Pedagogies for Autonomy in Language Teacher Education: Perspectives on Professional Learning, Identity, and Agency
1st Edition
Edited
By Manuel Jiménez Raya, Borja Manzano Vázquez, Flávia Vieira
October 27, 2025
This book aims to challenge established teaching cultures to promote teacher autonomy and autonomy-oriented pedagogies in language teacher education. Offering a set of inspiring case studies that illustrate language teacher education for autonomy as a space of multiple possibilities, the book fuses...
Researching Educational Practices, Teacher Education and Professional Development for Early Language Learning: Examples from Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandie Mourão, Carolyn Leslie
October 27, 2025
Recognising the urgent need for further progress in teacher education and preparation for the success of early language learning, this volume presents research on the education and professional development of teachers, exploring how they can foster multilingual spaces in the early years of formal ...
Agency in Multilingual Education Policy and Planning in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Syed Abdul Manan, Anas Hajar
September 30, 2025
Manan and Hajar invite experts and seasoned researchers from Asian contexts to explore the nuanced dynamics of language policy and educational practices in Asia, underscoring the importance of understanding local agency at a micro-level. The chapters of this title engage in the critical exploration...
Metacognitive Listening Instruction in the Second Language Classroom: Integrating Theory, Method, and Practice
1st Edition
By Naheen Madarbakus-Ring
September 30, 2025
This book addresses the gap between listening theory and practice by providing an outline of listening theory, offering practical listening methods, and presenting how metacognitive instruction can be integrated into real lesson practice. Applying these methods to teaching and learning can provide ...
Social Media and Language Learning: Using TikTok and Instagram
1st Edition
By Yeong-Ju Lee
August 22, 2025
This book explores creative uses of social media for informal language learning. It focuses on the underexplored area of how informal language learning adapts to technological innovations in two multimodal media-sharing platforms: TikTok and Instagram. Drawing on ecological perspectives of language...
Language Teacher Identity Tensions: Nexus of Agency, Emotion, and Investment
1st Edition
Edited
By Zia Tajeddin, Bedrettin Yazan
July 31, 2025
Addressing the critical issue of teacher identity tensions, this edited volume looks at the tensions between teachers’ instructional beliefs, values, and priorities, and the contextual constraints and requirements. It examines how teachers deal with these tensions to avoid demotivation and burnout,...
Performative Language Learning with Refugees and Migrants: Embodied Research and Practice in the Sorgente Project
1st Edition
Edited
By Erika Piazzoli, Fiona Dalziel
July 31, 2025
This book investigates the use of performative language pedagogy in working with refugees and migrants, exploring performative language teaching as the application of drama, music, dance and storytelling to second language acquisition. Documenting a community-based project – funded by the Irish ...
Building the Self-Efficacy Beliefs of English Language Learners and Teachers: New Perspectives for Research, Teaching and Learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Wyatt, Farahnaz Faez
June 27, 2025
Building the Self-Efficacy Beliefs of English Language Learners and Teachers explores, juxtaposes and bridges two fields of research that have developed separately: the self-efficacy beliefs of English language learners and the self-efficacy beliefs of English language teachers. The aim is to ...
Ecological Perspectives in Early Language Education: Parent, Teacher, Peer, and Child Agency in Interaction
1st Edition
By Mila Schwartz
June 27, 2025
This book presents ecological perspectives towards early language education that conceptualise the phenomenon of interactions between child language-based agency, teachers’ agency, peers’ agency and parents’ agency, consequently furthering insights into the lives of young children growing up in ...
English for Academic and Specific Purposes in the Classroom: From Theory to Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosmawati, Marjolijn Verspoor
May 27, 2025
This volume showcases curriculum designs, instructional strategies, classroom challenges, and assessment practices in courses around the world introduced to meet the demand for English language skills for academic (EAP) or specific purposes (ESP) in higher education settings. Particularly in ...