4th Edition

An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

By Keith Johnson, Joyce Kling Copyright 2027
346 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

346 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching provides an engaging, student-friendly up-to-date guide to the field of foreign language learning and teaching. Aimed at students with no background in the area and taking a task-based approach, this thoroughly revised fourth edition: introduces the theoretical and practical aspects of both learning and teaching, and provides... Read more

Part I Background  1 Five learners and five methods  2 What is there to learn?  3 Some views of language and language learning  Part II Learning  4 Learners and their errors  5 Input, interaction and output  6 Some learning processes  7 Individual language learners: some differences  8 Good language learners and what they do  Part III Teaching  9 Language teaching: a brisk walk through recent times  10 Contexts  11 Plans and programmes  12 Ways and means  13 Skills  14 Tests  15 When all has been said: preparing and managing lessons 

    

Biography

Keith Johnson is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Language Education in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Lancaster, UK.

Joyce Kling is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Language Education in the Department of English at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden.