New Directions for Research in Foreign Language Education

Simon Coffey is Senior Lecturer in Modern Languages Education at King’s College London, UK. He is joint editor of the Language Learning Journal.Ursula Wingate is Senior Lecturer in Language in Education and works in the School of Education, Communication and Society at King’s College London, UK.

"This book focuses on the challenges of teaching languages other than English, in varied contemporary contexts. It presents a stimulating selection of rationales, critiques and innovative proposals for curriculum and assessment, which will help professionals at all levels to reassess their practices and engage constructively with today’s diverse students."Rosamond Mitchell, Professor Emeritus, University of Southampton, UK

• PART 1: Changing rationales for language study Navigating precarious territory: Teaching Turkish in Greek-Cypriot classroomsPanayiota Charalambous, Constadina Charalambous and Ben Rampton Language learning as opportunity across the life span Simon Coffey Foreign language teaching for citizenship developmentMairin Hennebry PART 2: Foreign language study for global multilingualism Not English but English-within-multilingualismJennifer Jenkins ‘Glocal languages’: The ‘globalness’ and the ‘localness’ of world languagesManuela Guilherme L2 learning outside the classroom: new directions for research on intercultural interactions during study abroadRachel Shively PART 3: Critical perspectives in the classroom French language textbooks as ideologically imbued cultural artefacts: Political economy, neoliberalism and (self) branding David Block and John Gray The need for new directions in modern foreign language teaching at English secondary schools Ursula Wingate and Nick Andon Developing competence for French as a foreign language within a plurilingual paradigmNathalie Auger PART 4: Innovations in policy and practice Assessing the diverse linguistic and cultural repertoires of students of diverse languagesAngela Scarino Embedding the assessment into the learning: a new direction for high-stakes speaking assessmentsMartin East Toward an educational policy for U.S. collegiate foreign language instruction:Curricular considerationsHeidi ByrnesAfterwordClaire Kramsch