Hywel Coleman Livres

Focusing on classroom dynamics, this book presents a series of case studies from diverse global contexts, including Australia, South Africa, and Japan, exploring learner and teacher interactions in English language classrooms. It highlights critical issues such as the clash between learners' expectations and teachers' change initiatives, as well as the unpredictable outcomes of educational innovations. The insights gained are crucial for educators, teacher trainers, and curriculum developers, emphasizing the need for a nuanced understanding of classroom behavior.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.