Teaching Advanced Language Skills through Global Debate : Theory and Practice / Tony Brown and Jennifer Bown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Tony, author.

Bown, Jennifer, author.

Series:

Mastering languages through global debate.

Georgetown digital shorts.

Mastering languages through global debate

Georgetown digital shorts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Language and languages--Ability testing.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (106 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Baltimore, Maryland] : Georgetown University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using debate to develop advanced competency in a second language is a method that is finding increased interest among instructors and students alike, whether in synchronous online teaching or the individual classroom. Through debate, students learn how to make hypotheses, support their conclusions with evidence, and deploy the rhetoric of persuasion in the target language. Though this method provides an exciting pedagogy for moving students from the advanced to the superior level, there is a paucity of materials available for instructors who wish to plan a curriculum focused on debate. Teaching Advanced Language Skills through Global Debate: Theory and Practice provides teachers with both the theoretical underpinnings for using debate in the foreign language classroom as well as practical advice for developing reading, listening, writing, and speaking skills through debate. It discusses task-based language learning and helps instructors design debate-related tasks for the classroom. Teaching Advanced Language Skills through Global Debate will be useful for any instructor working at the advanced level, and particularly for those training future language instructors. One of the new digital short publications available through Georgetown University Press, it is an ideal complement to the press's new titles on mastering languages through global debate.

Contents:

Introduction

Rationale

Overview of textbook objective and components

Overview of proficiency guidelines

Task-based language learning

Teaching reading

Teaching listening

Teaching writing

Teaching speaking

Conclusion

Appendices.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-94).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781626161443

1626161445

OCLC:

954678960