This second edition presents various principles for guiding teachers through the assessment process (dictation, clozesummary, oral interview, role plays, portfolio assessment techniques).
This book focuses on how both nonnative and native teachers may enhance their handling of target language pragmatics in the classroom and provides ideas that both sets of teachers may draw on to compe
Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language examines what it takes to achieve long-term success in languages beyond the first language. Distinguishing language learning from language-use strate
This book focuses on how both nonnative and native teachers may enhance their handling of target language pragmatics in the classroom and provides ideas that both sets of teachers may draw on to compe
An understanding of sociocultural context is crucial in second language learning ? yet developing this awareness often poses a real challenge to the typical language learner. This book is a practical
This book explores the notion that the reason some learners of second languages excel and others struggle lies in what the learners themselves do-the strategies they bring to language learning and to
Sixteen international academics contribute 13 articles offering a renewed understanding of the connection between oral interaction in various settings classroom, immersion, interviews, role-plays, spo
In a series of studies specially written for this volume, Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning offers the applied linguist research on spoken interaction in second and foreign language
