Review: Balboni, Paolo E. (2018). A theoretical framework for language education and teaching. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Abstract

The volume is a reflection on the status of educational linguistics as a field of investigation in its own right. The author’s objective is to outline a theoretical framework for language education and teaching that is independent from the cultural features of the context in which the language curriculum is implemented. This goal seems to be intended by the author as a way to organize the many and often fragmentary trends and threads of research in the field and to provide scholars and practitioners with a benchmark against which they can contrast their research and professional practice decisions.