The handbook of language teaching / edited by Michael H. Long and Catherine J. Doughty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Long, Michael H.

Doughty, Catherine.

Series:

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Language and languages.

Second language acquisition--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (861 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

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

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Half Title page""; ""Series page""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Contributors""; ""Part I: Overview""; ""Chapter 1: Language Teaching""; ""Notes""; ""Part II: Social, Political, and Educational Contexts of Language Teaching""; ""Chapter 2: The Social and Sociolinguistic Contexts of Language Learning and Teaching""; ""The Social Context of Language Learning and Teaching""; ""The Sociolinguistic Context of Language Learning and Teaching""; ""Major Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching Contexts""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""

""Chapter 3: The Politics and Policies of Language and Language Teaching""""Introduction""; ""Historical and Global Contextualization""; ""Politics and/or Policy?""; ""Linguistic Human Rights, Linguistic Diversity, and Language Maintenance in and through Education: Issues of Language Policy and Politics""; ""Language Policy, Exemplified by the European Region""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Further Reading""; ""Chapter 4: History of Language Teaching""; ""The Context of Second-Language Teaching""; ""Beliefs about Language Learning, Methodologies and Historical Context""

""The Role and Status of the Language Teacher""""The Role and Status of the Learner""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Part III: Psycholinguistic Underpinnings of Language Learning""; ""Chapter 5: The Language-Learning Brain""; ""What is Neurolinguistics?""; ""Some Promising Neurolinguistic Research""; ""Neurolinguistic Research and L2 Learning and Teaching""; ""Some Confusions""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Chapter 6: Sequences and Processes in Language Learning""; ""Learner Language or Interlanguage""; ""Sequences in Language Learning""; ""Processes""

""Sequences, Processes, and Instruction: Five Generalizations and a Coda""""Note""; ""References""; ""Chapter 7: The Importance of Cross-Linguistic Similarity in Foreign Language Learning""; ""Actual, Perceived, and Assumed Similarities""; ""Types of Cross-Linguistic Similarity Relationships""; ""Item Transfer and System Transfer in Comprehension, Learning, and Production""; ""Implications for Teaching""; ""References""; ""Further Reading""; ""Chapter 8: Cognitive-Psychological Processes in Second Language Learning""; ""The Components of Second Language Knowledge""

""How the Components of Second Language Knowledge Are Used""""How the Components of Second Language Knowledge Are Learned, Acquired, Practiced, Monitored, and Consolidated""; ""References""; ""Chapter 9: Optimizing the Input: Frequency and Sampling in Usage-Based and Form-Focused Learning""; ""Estimating How Language Works: From Tokens to Types to System""; ""The Units of Language Acquisition""; ""Acquiring Constructions""; ""Frequency and the Roles of Input""; ""Tuning the System: Frequency and the Attainment of Nativelike Fluency and Selection""

""The Language Calculator Has No "Clear" Button""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 2, 2016).

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