The art of teaching Spanish : second language acquisition from research to praxis / Rafael Salaberry & Barbara A. Lafford, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salaberry, M. Rafael.

Lafford, Barbara A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

Spanish language.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

xii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2006]

Summary:

"Sparked by an increasing demand for a wider array of Spanish courses, this representative and timely collection of studies offers practical guidance in elucidating research on SLA to enhance teaching"&#8212Nuria Sagarra, assistant professor of Spanish and linguistics and applied language studies and director, Spanish as a basic language, The Pennsylvania State University

"An invaluable resoruce for SLA researchers and practitioners....The volume should be a necessary source of information or the center of discussion in any class on Spanish SLA and pedagogy."&#8212Dale Koike, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin

Contents:

The state of the art of teaching Spanish / Rafael Salaberry and Barbara Lafford

A content-based approach to Spanish language study / Carol A. Klee and Gwendolyn Barnes-Karol

Spanish SLA research, classroom practice, and curriculum design / Joseph Collentine

Theoretical and research considerations underlying classroom practice / Bill VanPatten and Michael Leeser

Concept-based instruction and the acquisition of L2 Spanish / Eduardo Negueruela and James P. Lantolf

The effects of study abroad and classroom contexts on the acquisition of Spanish as a second language / Barbara Lafford and Joseph Collentine

Online language learning / Robert Blake and Ann Marie Delforge

Testing Spanish / Rafael Salaberry and Andrew D. Cohen

Incorporating linguistic variation into the classroom / Manuel J. Gutiérrez and Marta Fairclough

Making connections / Guadalupe Valdés

Spanish second language acquisition / Sonia Colina.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1589011333

OCLC:

64427473

Publisher Number:

9781589011335