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Communicative Language Teaching in Action: Putting principles to work is designed as a basic text that demonstrates principles and practices of communicative language teaching and task-based instruction. Its primary purpose is to serve as a guide for second and foreign language teachers in training or for those who have embarked on a new career as language teachers. In particular, these include pre- and in-service teacher education majors, university teaching assistants, and English as a Second Language (ESL) majors and instructors. Furthermore, it is meant to be a resource for practicing teachers in continuing education programs.

Communicative Language Teaching in Action takes an eclectic approach to presenting theoretical concepts and application. This eclectic approach has a solid theoretical foundation that is supported by empirical research data. The conceptual foundation in this book draws upon a plethora of theoretical and empirical research findings in second language acquisition, cognitive psychology and brain research, and puts forth those instructional practices that have been found to achieve the highest effects in language learning.

Communicative Language Teaching in Action serves a dual goal:

1. It aims at providing a conceptual foundation on many issues related to language learning and teaching. A solid understanding of theoretical issues in language pedagogy must be considered fundamental to being effective as a teacher.

2. It aims at emphasizing the pragmatic side of language teaching by demonstrating and applying many theoretical concepts in context.  In order to achieve this goal, a wide range of examples, taken from textbooks in different languages, have been included. Whole and excerpts of actual lessons, which were developed by experienced language teachers in the field, are also provided to demonstrate how communicative language teaching is put into action. All chapters further include a set of practical guidelines that allow instructors to apply communicative teaching strategies to their own learning contexts.

1.             Principles of communicative language teaching and task-based instruction

2.             Short-term and daily lesson planning

3.             Getting started: Introducing vocabulary

4.             Grammar and language learning

5.             Feedback and error correction in language learning

6.             Instructional sequencing and task design

7.             Developing listening skills and the use of video

8.             Developing oral communication skills

9.             Developing reading skills

10.           Performance-based assessment

Language Teaching Methods - Spanish (Spanish)
French Teaching Methods (Grad TAs) (French)
Language Teaching Methods (German)

Klaus Brandl, Ph.D., is an applied linguist (University of Texas Austin) and specialist in foreign language pedagogy at the University of Washington, where he directs the language program in the Department of Scandinavian Studies and serves as the Language Pedagogue for the College of Arts and Sciences and College of Education. He is widely known for his research on language teacher training and language learning and technology. His articles have appeared in major journals such as The Modern Language Journal, The Foreign Language Annals, and Language Learning & Instruction, and he has contributed chapters to many books. He is also the author of several computer programs.

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  © 2000 | Prentice Hall | Paper | Instock
  ISBN-10: 013013810X | ISBN-13: 9780130138101
  
  
  

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