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9781444315790

The Handbook of Language Teaching

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  • ISBN13:

    9781444315790

  • ISBN10:

    144431579X

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2009-07-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, this Handbook is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference guide to language teaching. A comprehensive reference work on language teaching, which combines the latest research findings, coverage of core topics, and examples of teaching experience from a variety of languages and settings Provides a unique breadth of coverage, including: the psycholinguistic underpinnings of language learning; social, political, and educational contexts; program design; materials writing and course design; teaching and testing; teacher education; and assessment and evaluation Offers a balanced evaluation of the major positions and approaches, including examining the increasingly important social and political context of language teaching Written by an international and interdisciplinary group of authors from a dozen different countries; English is only one of the many languages used as examples throughout the volume

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Overview:
Language Teaching
Social, Political, and Educational Contexts of Language Teaching:
The Social and Sociolinguistic Contexts of Language Learning and Teaching
The Politics and Policies of Language and Language Teaching
History of Language Teaching
Psycholinguistic Underpinnings of Language Learning:
The Language-Learning Brain
Sequences and Processes in Language Learning
The Importance of Cross-Linguistic Similarity in Foreign Language Learning
Cognitive-Psychological Processes in Second Language Learning
Optimizing the Input: Frequency and Sampling in Usage-Based and Form-Focused Learning
Program Design:
Bilingual and Immersion Programs
Heritage Language Programs
Specific Purpose Programs
Study Abroad Research: Findings, Implications and Future Directions
Less Commonly Taught Languages: Issues in Learning and Teaching
Third Language Acquisition Theory and Practice
Course Design and Materials Writing:
Foreign and Second Language Needs Analysis
Syllabus Design
Advances in Materials Design
Corpora in Language Teaching
Technology-Enhanced Materials
Teaching and Testing:
Methodological Principles for Language Teaching
Teaching and Testing Listening Comprehension
Teaching and Testing Speaking
Teaching and Testing Reading
Learning to Read in New Writing Systems
Teaching and Testing Writing
Teaching and Testing Grammar
Teaching and Testing Vocabulary
Teaching and Testing Pragmatics
Task-Based Teaching and Testing
Radical Language Teaching
Diagnostic Feedback in Language Assessment
Computer-Assisted Teaching and Testing
Teacher Education:
Language Teacher Education
Diffusion and Implementation of Innovations
Assessing and Evaluating Instruction:
Current Trends in Classroom Research
Issues in Language Teacher Evaluation
Investigating the Effects and Effectiveness of L2 Instruction
Program Evaluation
Index
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