3rd Edition
A Practical Guide to Teaching Foreign Languages in the Secondary School
SECTION 1: OVERARCHING CONSIDERATIONS
- Foreign language teaching: understanding approaches, making choices
- Nurturing motivation for foreign language learning
- Assessment for learning: exploiting positive backwash on foreign language teaching and learning
- Research-based practice: findings from cognitive science and second language acquisition research
- Digital tools in foreign language teaching and learning; educational applications
- Developing listening skills in a foreign language
- Developing speaking skills in a foreign language
- Developing reading and writing skills in a foreign language
- Teaching grammar as and in context in the foreign languages classroom
- The (inter)cultural dimension in foreign language teaching
- The role of multilingualism in foreign language education
- Critical pedagogy: fostering learner engagement, critical thinking and language learning
- Professional identity: becoming an extended professional
- Teacher inquiry as professional development for foreign language teachers
Elspeth Broady
Laura Molway
Claudia Mewald
Steve Smith
Thomas Strasser
SECTION 2: DEVELOPING PEDAGOGICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Gary Chambers
Suzanne Graham
Ian Collen
Judith Rifeser and Crista Hazell
SECTION 3: EXPLORING BROADER PERSPECTIVES
Prue Holmes and Lamia Nemouchi
Claudia Mewald
Peeter Mehisto and Sarah O’Neill
René Koglbauer
Mike Calvert
Biography
Norbert Pachler, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society; Editor-in-Chief: The Language Learning Journal.
Ana Redondo, Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Bedfordshire.
This most recent edition of A Practical Guide to Teaching Foreign Languages in the Secondary School is a really welcome volume which will become essential reading for all those who are involved in the vital work of teaching languages to our next generation of children. Written in an accessible way, this new edition is completely up-to-date. Each chapter addresses a key issue, and effectively combines important theoretical perspectives with thoughtful implications for classroom practice. Every language teacher needs to have a copy of this on their bookshelf!
Trevor Mutton, Associate Professor, University of Oxford
This is an outstanding and comprehensive survey of practical ideas for the teaching of foreign languages in secondary school.
In the 15 years since its first edition it has been a ‘must-have’ for anyone starting their teaching career, each chapter written by highly respected practitioners who engage readers through a series of questions, exemplify a range of practical ideas which work in various settings, and give just the right amount of reference to research into the various theories which underpin different approaches.
This latest edition brings existing chapters up-to-date and adds some new elements, for example taking account of new DfE requirements, drawing on recent research into the cognitive sciences and motivation, and giving an opportunity to reflect on what we have learnt through the challenges of delivering teaching remotely or in a hybrid format.
I thoroughly recommend this guide to both training and well- established teachers who for whatever reason may not have come across it!
Helen Myers, Association for Language Learning Invited Trustee
