Teaching modern languages / edited by Ann Swarbrick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Swarbrick, Ann.

Open University.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages, Modern--Study and teaching.

Languages, Modern.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Modern language classrooms are currently dominated by the communicative method of language teaching. This reader draws together recent and newly commissioned papers to show the origins of communicative methodology, how it has developed, what its research justification is and how it can most effectively be used in the classroom. Various chapters examine the particular challenges of differentiation, teaching grammar, encouraging pupils to use the target language together and teaching a foreign language to children with special educational needs. The final section discusses ways of developing cre

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; The historical ball and chain; Modern languages: twenty years of change; The communicative approach to language teaching: an introduction; The communicative approach and authentic texts; De l'imparfait du subjonctif aux methodes communicatives: o en est l'enseignement des langues vivantes?; Communication: sense and nonsense; Mistakes are the mistake; Differentiation in the foreign language classroom; Autonomy in language learning: some theoretical and practical considerations

Extending opportunities: modern foreign languages for pupils with special educational needsLearning, acquiring, remembering and producing language; Getting pupils talking; Teaching grammar in the target language; Why do I have to get it right anyway?; Raising reading attainment in modern languages; A la recherche du stylo perdu; Drama techniques in language teaching; Approche communicative: un second souffle?; Role activities in the foreign language classroom; Acknowledgements; Notes on sources; Index

Notes:

"The Open University postgraduate certificate of education"--P. [ii].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-85158-8

1-134-85159-6

1-280-33011-2

0-203-06001-6

0-203-30061-0

9780203060018

OCLC:

173610124