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Doctoral Program in English Language Education Reading List

SUGGESTED READINGS FOR CANDIDATES APPLYING TO

THE YEDİTEPE Ph.D. PROGRAM IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION

The reading list for the preparation for the Ph.D. program admission test

Language Learning

Doughty, J., & Long M. A. (2005). The handbook of second language acquisition. Mass: Blackwell Publishing.

Gass, S. M., Behney, J., Plonsky, L., & Selinker, L. (2013). Second language acquisition: An introductory course. New York/London: Routledge (4rd edition).

Mitchell, R., Myles, F. , & Marsden, E. (2013). Second language learning theories. London: Arnold (3rd edition).

 

Language Teaching

Borg, S. (2013). Teacher research in language teaching: A critical analysis. Cambridge University Press.

Burns, A. (1999) Collaborative Action Research for English Language Teachers. Cambridge University Press.Celce-Murcia, M. , Brinton, D. M. , Snow, M.A. (Eds.) (2014). Teaching English as a second or foreign language. Boston: Heinle &Heinle (4th Edition).

Ellis, R. (2012). Language teaching research and language pedagogy. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Gebhard, J.R. & Oprandy, R. (1999).  Language Teaching Awareness. Cambridge University Press. 

Grabe, W. & Kaplan, R. B. (1998). Theory and practice of writing. NY: Longman.

Grabe, W. & Stoller, F. L. (2002). Teaching and researching reading. Great Britain: Pearson Education.

Lankshear, C. & M. Knoebel, (2004). A Handbook for Teacher Research. Open University Press.

Zeichner, K. M. + Liston, D. P. (1996).  Reflective Teaching. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publihers.

Manchόn, R. M. & Matsuda, P. K. (Eds) (2016). Handbook of Second and Foreign Language Writing. Germany: DeGruyter.

 

Psycholinguistics

Traxler, M. J. (2012). Introduction to psycholinguistics: Understanding language science. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.

Warren, P. (2013). Introducing Psycholinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Sociolinguistics and Cross-Cultural Communication

Holmes, J. & Wilson, N. (2017). An introduction to sociolinguistics. London, U.K: Longman (5th edition)

Holmes, P. & Dervin, F. (Eds.) (2016). The cultural and intercultural dimensions of English as a Lingua Franca. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

Hornberger, N. H., & McKay, S.L. (Eds.) (2010). Sociolinguistics and language education. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

Jenkins, J. (2015). Global Englishes: A resource book for students. London: Routledge.

 

Testing & Research

Bachman, L., & Palmer, A. (2010). Language assessment in practice:

developing language assessments and justifying their use in the real world. Oxford: Oxford

University Press.

Fraenkel, J.R., N. E. Wallen, & H. H. Hyun (2015). How to design and evaluate research in

education. Boston: McGraw-Hill (9th edition).

Jackson, S. L. (2016). Research methods and statistics: A critical thinking approach. Belmont: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning (5th edition).

Weir, C. J.(2005). Language Testing and Validation: An evidence-based approach. Basingstoke:Palgrave McMillan.

Willis, J. W. (2007). Foundations of Qualitative Research: Interpretive and Critical

Approaches. Thousand Oaks: Sage.