
The Handbook of Informal Language Learning
By: Mark Dressman (Editor), Randall William Sadler (Editor)
Hardcover | 30 January 2020 | Edition Number 1
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The Handbook of Informal Language Learning examines informal language learning from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Structured across six sections, chapters cover areas of motivation, linguistics, cognition, and multimodality; digital learning, including virtual contexts, gaming, fanfiction, vlogging, mobile devices, and nonformal programs; and media and live contact, including learning through environmental print, tourism/study abroad. The book also provides studies of informal learning in four national contexts, examines the integration of informal and formal classroom learning, and discusses the future of language learning from different perspectives.
Mark Dressman is Professor and Chair of English at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He has authored four books, including Using social theory in educational research: A practical guide (2008), and more than thirty journal articles on curriculum and the teaching of English as a first and other language.
Randall William Sadler is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of TESL and ESL at the University of Illinois, USA. He teaches courses on telecollaboration, virtual worlds, and teaching L2 reading and writing and focuses his research on technology in language learning. He is author of Virtual Worlds for Language Learning: From Theory to Practice (2012) and has published in many journals, including Journal of English for Academic Purposes, CALICO, ReCALL, Language Learning & Technology.
Industry Reviews
“I am familiar with Sadler’s work having attended some of his conference presentations and served with him on the CALICO Executive Board. I know that he is well connected within the field of technology and language learning, which should help in recruiting authors… This is the kind of book that is well-suited to libraries, and I would think that individual chapters would find their ways into course readers in more general technology and language learning teacher preparation courses.”
Phil Hubbard, Stanford University, USA
“My overall impression is that the proposed volume provides a highly important contribution to the endeavor of language learning. The premise is intriguing, in that it is focused on an area of research in language learning which is often left aside in research and on language teacher training programs, that of informal language learning. It is an exciting and novel approach to theorizing about language learning – one which will serve to inform studies of formal language learning and research into second language acquisition.”
Anne McCabe, Saint Louis University, USA
“I think a handbook on informal language learning is timely and much needed. I like how the authors proposed to start with a clear theorization of informal language learning from different perspectives and how it covers a wide range of aspects related to informal language learning.”
Chun Lai, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ISBN: 9781119472445
ISBN-10: 111947244X
Series: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
Published: 30th January 2020
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 528
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Country of Publication: US
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 244.0 x 170.0 x 33.25
Weight (kg): 1.07
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