Form-Focused Instruction and Teacher Education

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BACHMAN: Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing

BACHMAN and PALMER: Language Testing in Practice

BRUMFIT: Individual Freedom and Language Teaching

BRUMFIT and CARTER (eds.): Literature and Language Teaching

CANAGARAJAH: Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in Language Teaching

COOK: Discourse and Literature

COOK: Language Play, Language Learning

COOK and SEIDLHOFER (eds.): Principle and Practice in Applied Linguistics

DöRNYEI: Research Methods in Applied Linguistics

ELLIS: SLA Research and Language Teaching

ELLIS: Task-based Language Learning and Teaching

ELLIS: The Study of Second Language Acquisition

ELLIS: Understanding Second Language Acquisition

ELLIS and BARKHUIZEN: Analysing Learner Language

HOLLIDAY: The Struggle to Teach English as an International Language

HOWATT: A History of English Language Teaching

JENKINS: English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity

JENKINS: The Phonology of English as an International Language

KERN: Literacy and Language Teaching

KRAMSCH: Context and Culture in Language Teaching

LANTOLF (ed.): Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning

LANTOLF and THORNE: Sociocultural Theory and the Genesis of Second Language Development

LARSEN-FREEMAN AND CAMERON: Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics

MACKEY (ed.): Conversational Interaction and Second Language Acquisition

MEINHOF: Language Learning in the Age of Satellite Television

NATTINGER and DECARRICO: Lexical Phrases and Language Teaching

PHILLIPSON: Linguistic Imperialism

SEIDLHOFER (ed.): Controversies in Applied Linguistics

SELIGER and SHOHAMY: Second Language Research Methods

SKEHAN: A Cognitive Approach to Language Learning

STERN: Fundamental Concepts of Language Teaching

STERN (eds. P. Allen and B. Harley): Issues and Options in Language Teaching

TARONE and YULE: FOCUS on the Language Learner

WIDDOWSON: Aspects of Language Teaching

WIDDOWSON: Defining Issues in English Language Teaching

WIDDOWSON: Practical Stylistics

WIDDOWSON: Teaching Language as Communication

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THE EDITORS, AUTHORS, AND OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS are pleased to publish this book in honour of Rod Ellis for his outstanding contribution to the field of second language teaching and learning.

THE EDITORS AND THE PUBLISHER would like to thank the authors for their excellent chapters, and are grateful to Allster Cumming, Henry Widdowson, and David Nunan for their helpful comments and suggestions. The editors would like to thank Laura Hawkes for her assistance.

THIS BOOK is edited in honor of Rod Ellis, whose contributions to the field of second language acquisition (SLA) and teacher education have been of tremendous significance over the past three decades. Rod’s work and ideas have advanced our understanding of many areas within SLA, including form-focused instruction (FFI), task-based teaching and learning, classroom research, and the role of input and interaction. Throughout his career, Rod’s commitment to teacher education through linking research with classroom pedagogy stands out as especially significant. Because he began his career as an English teacher, he has extensive experience with and knowledge of classroom teaching and the challenges facing teachers. This background, coupled with his expertise in SLA research and applied linguistics, has enabled him to connect theory and practice effectively and to make outstanding contributions to various areas of teacher education, including curriculum development, teaching methodology, and classroom research. Rod’s contributions in these areas have appeared in numerous journal articles, conference presentations, workshops, and teacher education textbooks and monographs. By editing this Festschrift, we wish to express our appreciation of what Rod has done over the course of his academic and teaching career for second and foreign language (FL) teachers, researchers, and teacher educators.