Making It Happen: From Interactive to Participatory Language Teaching: Evolving Theory and Practice - Brossura

Richard-Amato, Patricia A.

 
9780132361378: Making It Happen: From Interactive to Participatory Language Teaching: Evolving Theory and Practice
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ISBN 10: 013236137X ISBN 13: 9780132361378
Casa editrice: Allyn & Bacon, 2009

Sinossi

 

This cutting-edge sourcebook for teachers provides a comprehensive vision of effective second language teaching and explores ways to create meaningful interaction leading to emergent participatory language teaching. The fourth edition of Making It Happen presents a cyclic approach to theory and practice, in which theory and practice constantly inform each other.

Features

  • Strategies for teaching children, adolescents, and adults from beginning to advanced levels
  • Am emphasis on peer- and self-evaluation in simulated and real classrooms
  • A practical reservoir for teachers as they develop their own methodologies and local practice
  • Discussions of issues critical to program development, lesson design, materials selection, video use, teacher research, and professional development (including SIOP)
  • Case studies from kindergarten through university level to stimulate professional dialog

 

New to This Edition

  • Separate chapters on implicit/explicit teaching and on sociocultural/cognitive synthesis
  • Sections on form-focus strategies, World Englishes, research directions, corpus analysis, dialogical assessment, and the Acoma heritage language program
  • Updated research that reflects influential thinking for the 21st century

Also by Patricia A. Richard-Amata (with Marguerite Ann Snow):

Academic Success for English Language Learners: Strategies for K-12 Mainstream Teachers

Le informazioni nella sezione "Riassunto" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.

Informazioni sull'autore

Biography

 

Dr. Patricia Richard-Amato is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles where she coordinated graduate programs in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Her experience includes 19 years in public schools of the U.S. and teaching at several TESOL Institutes and Academies in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Richard-Amato was a recipient (along with John Oller, Jr.) of the Mildenberger Medal from the Modern Language Association for Methods that Work. Her more recent works include Making It Happen: From Interactive to Participatory Language Teaching: Evolving Theory and Practice (4th edition) and Academic Success for English Language Learners: Strategies for K-12 Mainstream Teachers (with M. A. Snow). She is one of the founders of the Pikes Peak Chapter of the United Nations Association, USA and is a founding member of the Institute for Language and Education Policy.

Dalla quarta di copertina

 

This cutting-edge sourcebook for teachers provides a comprehensive vision of effective second language teaching and explores ways to create meaningful interaction leading to emergent participatory language teaching. The fourth edition of Making It Happen presents a cyclic approach to theory and practice, in which theory and practice constantly inform each other.

 

Features

  • Strategies for teaching children, adolescents, and adults from beginning to advanced levels
  • Am emphasis on peer- and self-evaluation in simulated and real classrooms
  • A practical reservoir for teachers as they develop their own methodologies and local practice
  • Discussions of issues critical to program development, lesson design, materials selection, video use, teacher research, and professional development (including SIOP)
  • Case studies from kindergarten through university level to stimulate professional dialog

 

New to This Edition

  • Separate chapters on implicit/explicit teaching and on sociocultural/cognitive synthesis
  • Sections on form-focus strategies, World Englishes, research directions, corpus analysis, dialogical assessment, and the Acoma heritage language program
  • Updated research that reflects influential thinking for the 21st century

Also by Patricia A. Richard-Amata (with Marguerite Ann Snow):

Academic Success for English Language Learners: Strategies for K-12 Mainstream Teachers

Le informazioni nella sezione "Su questo libro" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.

Editore
Allyn & Bacon
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
013236137X
ISBN 13 
9780132361378
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
4
Numero di pagine
599
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
Pearson
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