Process And Experience In The Language Classroom

Author : Michael Legutke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317901606
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Process and Experience in the Language Classroom written by Michael Legutke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Process and Experience in the Language Classroom argues the case for communicative language teaching as an experiential and task driven learning process. The authors raise important questions regarding the theoretical discussion of communicative competence and current classroom practice. They propose ways in which Communicative Language Teaching should develop within an educational model of theory and practice, incorporating traditions of experimental and practical learning and illustrated from a wide range of international sources. Building on a critical review of recent language teaching principles and practice, they provide selection criteria for classroom activities based on a typology of communicative tasks drawn from classroom experience. The authors also discuss practical attempts to utilise project tasks both as a means of realising task based language learning and of redefining the roles of teacher and learner within a jointly constructed curriculum.

Author : Michael Legutke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317901614
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Process and Experience in the Language Classroom written by Michael Legutke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Process and Experience in the Language Classroom argues the case for communicative language teaching as an experiential and task driven learning process. The authors raise important questions regarding the theoretical discussion of communicative competence and current classroom practice. They propose ways in which Communicative Language Teaching should develop within an educational model of theory and practice, incorporating traditions of experimental and practical learning and illustrated from a wide range of international sources. Building on a critical review of recent language teaching principles and practice, they provide selection criteria for classroom activities based on a typology of communicative tasks drawn from classroom experience. The authors also discuss practical attempts to utilise project tasks both as a means of realising task based language learning and of redefining the roles of teacher and learner within a jointly constructed curriculum.

Author : Michael Legutke
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ISBN 13 : 9781417607006
Total Pages : pages
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Author : Lothar Bredella
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823352839
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Challenges of Literary Texts in the Foreign Language Classroom written by Lothar Bredella and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1996 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Norma Gonzalez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135614059
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Funds of Knowledge written by Norma Gonzalez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-21 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of "funds of knowledge" is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge. The claim in this book is that first-hand research experiences with families allow one to document this competence and knowledge, and that such engagement provides many possibilities for positive pedagogical actions. Drawing from both Vygotskian and neo-sociocultural perspectives in designing a methodology that views the everyday practices of language and action as constructing knowledge, the funds of knowledge approach facilitates a systematic and powerful way to represent communities in terms of the resources they possess and how to harness them for classroom teaching. This book accomplishes three objectives: It gives readers the basic methodology and techniques followed in the contributors' funds of knowledge research; it extends the boundaries of what these researchers have done; and it explores the applications to classroom practice that can result from teachers knowing the communities in which they work. In a time when national educational discourses focus on system reform and wholesale replicability across school sites, this book offers a counter-perspective stating that instruction must be linked to students' lives, and that details of effective pedagogy should be linked to local histories and community contexts. This approach should not be confused with parent participation programs, although that is often a fortuitous consequence of the work described. It is also not an attempt to teach parents "how to do school" although that could certainly be an outcome if the parents so desired. Instead, the funds of knowledge approach attempts to accomplish something that may be even more challenging: to alter the perceptions of working-class or poor communities by viewing their households primarily in terms of their strengths and resources, their defining pedagogical characteristics. Funds of Knowledge: Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms is a critically important volume for all teachers and teachers-to-be, and for researchers and graduate students of language, culture, and education.

Author : Amy Snyder Ohta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135649839
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Second Language Acquisition Processes in the Classroom written by Amy Snyder Ohta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first study to examine how interactional style develops within the walls of a foreign language classroom in the first two years of language study. Results show learners to be highly sensitive to pragmatic information and that learners can move toward an appropriate interactional style through classroom interactive experience. The book shows how learners are most often sources who offer assistance and correction, with errors serving most often to stimulate further thinking about what form is correct. Analysis shows learners to be active in seeking corrective information in the classroom setting, not only from peer partners but also from the teacher. They are active in noticing how the teacher's utterances--even when addressed to others--contrast with their own, and utilize corrective feedback intended for other students. In addition, the results show that teacher-initiated corrective feedback addressed to individual learners is only one source of corrective feedback. Learners are shown to be active in both teacher-fronted and peer interactive settings. In newer L2 teaching methodologies which focus on the use of peer interactive tasks, the teacher's role has been de-emphasized. This book, however, shows how important the teacher's role is. The final chapter examines how the teacher can act to maximize the benefits of peer interactive tasks through how they design tasks and present them to the class. First, the chapter looks at how learners use English--their L1--in the classroom, concluding that how teachers present activities to the class has an impact on the amount of L1 used by students during peer interaction. Following up on this finding, the chapter works to address questions that teachers face in lesson planning and teaching. It presents a useful list of questions teachers can ask when designing peer interactive tasks in order to maximize the effectiveness of a wide variety of language learning tasks.

Author : Phil Hiver
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1788923626
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Student Engagement in the Language Classroom written by Phil Hiver and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defines engagement for the field of language learning and contextualizes it within existing work on the psychology of language learning and teaching. Chapters address broad substantive questions concerned with what engagement is or looks like, and how it can be theorized for the language classroom; methodological questions related to the design, measurement and analysis of engagement in language classrooms and beyond; as well as applied issues examining its antecedents, factors inhibiting and enhancing it, and conditions fostering the re-engagement of language learners who have become disengaged. Through a mix of conceptual and empirical chapters, the book explores similarities and differences between motivation and engagement and addresses questions of whether, how and why learners actually do exert effort, allocate attention, participate and become involved in tangible language learning and use. It will serve as an authoritative benchmark for future theoretical and empirical research into engagement within the classroom and beyond, and will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand the unique insights and contributions the topic of engagement can make to language learning and teaching.

Author : Judy Hochberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042965572X
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bringing Linguistics into the Spanish Language Classroom written by Judy Hochberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing Linguistics into the Spanish Language Classroom is a practical, time-saving resource that allows teachers to easily integrate the most interesting and important findings of Hispanic linguistics into their Spanish language classes. Teachers will find classroom-ready explanations and PowerPoint slides for each topic covered, as well as instructions and materials for in-class activities and take-home projects that will engage students in this fresh take on the target language. Slide presentations for each chapter are available online at www.routledge.com/9780367111960. The book covers aspects of Spanish from the trilled r to the personal a, from Indo-European origins to modern dialects, and from children’s first words to adult speech errors. An innovative set of five linguistics-based essential questions organizes and contextualizes this wide range of material: How is Spanish different from other languages? How is Spanish similar to other languages? What are the roots of Spanish? How does Spanish vary? How do people learn and use Spanish? Fully customizable to teacher and student interest, proficiency level, and time available in class, this book is ideal for Spanish language teachers looking to incorporate valuable linguistic insights into their curricula, even if they lack prior knowledge of this field. It is an excellent resource for Hispanic linguistics courses as well.

Author : Rosemary Erlam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108835953
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Languages to Adolescent Learners written by Rosemary Erlam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reader-friendly publication on teaching modern languages to adolescents, which draws on theory as well as examples from real classrooms.

Author : Ofelia García
Publisher : Caslon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781934000199
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Translanguaging Classroom written by Ofelia García and published by Caslon Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shows teachers how to strategically navigate the dynamic flow of bilingual students' language practices to (1) enable students to engage with and comprehend complex content and texts, (2) develop students' linguistic practices for academic contexts, (3) draw on students' bilingualism and bilingual ways of understanding, and (2) support students' socioemotional development and advance social justice"--provided by the publisher.