Sách Effective Learning and Teaching in Modern Languages

Title: Effective Learning and Teaching in Modern Languages

Edited by: James A. Coleman and John Klapper

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 2005

Pages: 251

Size: 851 kB

Format: PDF

Quality: High

Language: American English

Contents:

How should you be teaching language to your students?

What techniques do the best teachers use?

Written to meet the needs of teachers, lecturers and tutors of Modern Languages, this comprehensive guide will help you to improve your understanding of the subject and will also enhance your practice in the classroom.

Effective Learning and Teaching in Modern Languages offers insights from the latest research into learning and teaching within the discipline, and also outlines innovative teaching techniques, covering all the subjects critical to a lecturer of Modern Languages, including:

- The demands made of students and staff in modern languages

- The 'four skills', assessment, grammar, vocabulary and translation

- Technology-enhanced learning

- Residence abroad

- Subdisciplines such as linguistics and business, area, cultural and literary studies

Professional development


Providing both a clear overview of the discipline and a wealth of techniques, practical advice and useful resources, this book will be welcomed by lecturers or tutors new to the profession and experienced lecturers wanting to keep up with the latest developments and improve their students' learning.


About the author

James A. Coleman is Professor of Language Learning and Teaching at the Open University. A leading figure in European language education, he has published widely

on language learning in the university context, including individual differences, audiovisual media and new technologies, residence abroad, and language testing.

John Klapper is Professor of Foreign Language Pedagogy and Director of the Centre for Modern Languages, University of Birmingham. He is a National Teaching Fellow and has published on various aspects of language learning and teaching, including immersion, teacher education, methodology and materials development.

Contents

List of contributors viii

Foreword by Michael Kelly x

Introduction

xii

James A. Coleman and John Klapper

Part I University Modern Languages: students and staff 1

1 Modern Languages as a university discipline 3

James A. Coleman

2 Who are our students and what do they bring from

previous experience? 10

Norbert Pachler

3 Where do our graduates go? Languages and careers 17

James A. Coleman

4 Who teaches our students? University teachers and their

professional development 23

John Klapper

Part II The theory and practice of language teaching 29

5 Research into language learning 31

James A. Coleman and John Klapper

6 Curriculum design 44

James A. Coleman and Elizabeth Hauge

7 The four language skills or ‘juggling simultaneous

constraints’ 52

Elspeth Broady


8 Teaching grammar 67

John Klapper

9 Teaching and learning vocabulary 75

Paul Meara

10 Assessment in Modern Languages 80

John Klapper

11 Assessing language skills 90

John Klapper

12 Using the foreign language assistant 102

Agnès Gower

13 Translating and interpreting 108

James A. Coleman and Isabelle Perez

Part III Modes and contexts of university language

learning 115

14 Institution-wide languages programmes and non-specialist

learners 117

Derrik Ferney

15 Residence abroad 126

James A. Coleman

16 Independent learning 133

Vicky Wright

17 Distance learning in Modern Languages 142

Stella Hurd

18 Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) 148

June Thompson

19 The internet and computer-mediated communication 153

Sophie Ioannou-Georgiou

20 The effective learning of languages in tandem 165

Tim Lewis

21 Corpora and concordances 173

Marie-Madeleine Kenning

Part IV A diverse discipline 179

22 Cultural Studies 181

Michael Kelly

vi Contents

vi

23 Languages and Business Studies 187

David Head

24 Linguistics 192

Rosalind Temple

25 Area Studies 201

Alison Phipps

26 Literary Studies 207

Diana Holmes and David Platten

References 215

Index 234