Esta serie profundiza en las complejidades de la pedagogía y la lingüística, diseñada para profundizar el conocimiento profesional de los educadores de idiomas. Cada volumen ofrece valiosas perspectivas y estrategias prácticas destinadas a mejorar sus habilidades de enseñanza. Se centra en cómo la comprensión teórica puede informar directamente la efectividad en el aula. Es una guía esencial para cualquiera dedicado a refinar el arte de la instrucción de idiomas.
Discourse analysis is the study of spoken and written language in its social and psychological context. This book explains the relevant theory, and applies it to classroom activities designed to improve students' discourse skills. The teacher is then shown how these activities may be further developed in specific teaching situations.
How do learners learn to speak a foreign language? What different approaches have been developed to teach this important skill? Speaking deals with both these questions, providing clear explanations of recent research and developments in methodology. In the final section the author suggests practical ways in which teachers can gain a better understanding of the role of oral classroom activities.
Demonstrates the principles involved in planning and designing an effective syllabus. This book examines important concepts, such as needs analysis, goal-setting, and content specification, and serves as a useful introduction for teachers who want to gain an understanding of syllabus design in order to modify the syllabuses with which they work.
An examination of the teaching of listening, discussing what language comprehension involves and the views of listening which underlie commercial materials. The work includes the author's recent work in comprehension task design and aims to guide teachers in their own research tasks.
The basic principles and terminology of this important, but sometimes neglected, area are explained in this book. Pronunciation helps teachers to understand and evaluate the materials available to them, and so approach the teaching of pronunciation with more confidence. The book includes over 120 classroom projects which readers can use to develop their pronunciation teaching.
Published 1997. Writing introduces both traditional and more recent approaches to the teaching of this skill and shows how current teaching materials put these approaches into practice. The reader is encouraged to think about the reasons for teaching writing, and to see how many different types of writing - factual or creative, public or personal, business or academic - can be brought into the language classroom.
Provides the practising language teacher with an overview of Grammar. This book describes the nature of grammar, its role in language learning and language use, and how it can be taught effectively. It invites readers to apply these ideas in their own teaching.