Asian English Language Classrooms

1. Introduction: The Interweaving between Theory and Practice in Language Classrooms Widodo, Handoyo, University of Adelaide, Australia; Wood, Alistair, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei; Gupta, Deepti, Panjab University, India & Winnie Cheng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 2. Teaching Interactive Listening Tomoko Kurita, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan 3. Teaching Speaking for Intercultural Communication: Textbooks, classrooms and learners Lixian Jin, De Montfort University, UK & Martin Cortazzi, University of Warwick, UK 4. Teaching reading through multimodal texts Eveline Chan and Zhang Zuocheng, University of New England, Australia 5. Teaching Writing to Multilingual Learners Justina Ong, National University of Singapore, Singapore 6. Teaching Communicative Vocabulary Anna Siyanova and Paul Nation, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 7. What EFL Teachers Should Know about Online Grammar Tasks Reima Al-Jarf, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia 8. Teaching Pronunciation to Adult Learners of English Karen Steffen Chung, National Taiwan University, Taiwan 9. Literature in an Age of Distraction Alan Maley, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK 10. Exploring ICT tools in English Language Learning: Language, Technology and the Globalized Classroom Paolo Nino Valdez, Neslie Carol C. Tan, and Lindsey Ng-Tan, De La Salle University-Manila, the Philippines 11. The Use of Photo Story in the Indonesian EAL Classroom: Working with Multimodal Tasks Sri Rejeki Murtiningsih, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Nur Arifah Drajati, SMA Labschool Jakarta, Indonesia; Winda Hapsari, LBPP-LIA Pusat - Jakarta, Indonesia & Hasti Rahmaningtyas, State University of Malang, Indonesia 12. Language Classroom Management Arif Saricoban, Hacettepe University, Turkey and Z. Muge Tavil and Gazi University, Turkey 13. Fluency in Language Classrooms: Extensive Listening and Reading Alistair Wood, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam 14. Social and Psychology of an ESL Classroom Deepti Gupta, Panjab University, India 15. Future Directions in ELT Methodology: Putting Theory into Practice Afterword by Jack C. Richards