Christopher N. Candlin Bücher

Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and Applied Linguistics. Each book in the series guides readers through three main sections, enabling them to explore and develop major themes within the discipline. Throughout the book, topics are revisited, extended, interwoven and deconstructed, with the reader’s understanding strengthened by tasks and follow-up questions. Corpus-Based Language Studies : The accompanying website to this book can be found at

What roles do teachers and learners play in classroom language learning, and what kinds of activities and materials bring them into the most effective partnership? This book has the aim of helping teachers to discover for themselves the best ways of fostering co-operative learning in their own classrooms. Teaching and learning as social activities. What is a role? Factors influencing teacher and learner roles. Teacher and learner roles in the classroom. Teaching tasks and teaching strategies. Teaching style. Instructional tasks, strategies, materials and resources. Language learning tasks and activities. Learning groups. The individual learner. Classroom processes. Investigating teacher and learner roles.

Language and Gender:presents an up-to-date introduction to language and gender includes diverse work from a range of cultural, including non-Western, contexts, and represents a range of methodological approaches gathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline, including: Deborah Cameron, Mary Haas and Deborah Tannen.Written by an experienced teacher and researcher in the field, Language and Gender is an essential resource for students and researchers of Applied Linguistics.