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This book explores the relevance that second language research has for the secondary foreign language classroom. It analyses the concept of teaching and learning exclusively through the target language. This concept is then related to two current pedagogical tendencies: peer collaboration and learner autonomy.
Price: $39.95
Pages: 240
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Series: Modern Language in Practice
Publication Date:
17 January 1997
Trim Size: 8.25 X 5.85 in
ISBN: 9781853593680
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Language teaching and learning, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Educational strategies and policy
Ernesto Macaro became a second language learner at the age of eight and a foreign language learner at the age of thirteen. Building on this personal experience, he taught for many years in secondary schools in England and is now a lecturer and researcher in Modern Languages Education at the University of Reading.
Introduction
1. A National Curriculum or a Framework for Methodology?
2. lnterpretations of Communicative Language Teaching
3. The Teacher as Input
4. The Pupil as Learner
5. Collaborative Learning
6. Learner Autonomy
7. ls a National Methodology Desirable?