I am pleased to share a call for chapters for a book edited by me, Hayo Reinders, and Qi Liu entitled "Innovation in Language Learning & Teaching: Research-Practice Partnership".

This book brings together reports and reflections on research-practice partnership projects that aim to improve the teaching and learning of languages. Such projects are referred to by different names: impact or public engagement, knowledge mobilisation and translation, research-practice dialogue, research-practice partnership, and others. Stakeholders in such partnerships can include researchers working in academia, in industry, or in third sector (i.e., charity organisations), teachers, teacher educators, administrators, senior leaders, policymakers, instructional designers, and parents, among many others.

This books starts from the assumption that the traditional researcher-led approach to research-practice collaborations can be improved through a more collegial, dialogic, sustainable, inclusive ecology where all stakeholders contribute equally and learn together.

The research-practice partnership initiatives in this book cover all aspects of languages education, from early childhood through tertiary level, in both private and public education, to adult learning settings, as well as innovations at local, national, regional, and international levels. Issues that are of particular relevance to this book include ways to foster evidence-informed language teaching and learning in different contexts, the roles played by stakeholders (especially teachers and researchers) when generating and using research evidence in languages education, and the values of practitioner research.

Some of the questions this book answers include:

· Where does the impetus for research-practice partnerships originate?
· Who are the stakeholders in and drivers of such partnerships?
· Why are some partnership activities implemented successfully, whereas others fail?

Please see detailed information about the call here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jvc7W8p_kMDE8WFtb7pIKvrk6T5RVXFZ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102197973174911648059&rtpof=true&sd=true

Submission of abstracts can be made here: https://forms.office.com/e/8HBqCQaXqz

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics