1st Edition

Improving Foreign Language Teaching Towards a research-based curriculum and pedagogy

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

 Improving Foreign Language Teaching provides teachers and teacher trainers with a research-based structure for the effective teaching and assessment of second languages. As well as outlining a model for teacher development, the book identifies and exemplifies eight key principles for effective language learning, which can be used to guide curriculum design and decisions about classroom... Read more

1. The problem with ‘improving language learning’  2. Oral interaction in the second language classroom  3. Reading and listening: Developing knowledge and making the most of it  4. Developing the learner through writing: Recursion and compromise  5. A pedagogical assessment system  6. Preparing to become, and continuing to be, a language teacher  7. The PDCinMFL project  8. Putting the ‘Principles’ into practice  9. By way of conclusion

Biography

Ernesto Macaro is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Oxford University Department of Education (OUDE), UK.

Suzanne Graham is Professor of Language and Education at the Institute of Education, University of Reading, UK.

Robert Woore is a lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Oxford University Department of Education (OUDE), UK.