Strategy and Skill in Learning a Foreign Language - Brossura

McDonough, Steven

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0340591099 ISBN 13: 9780340591093

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1995

Riassunto

This book examines the processes involved in acquiring language skills, both mental and social, and the notion of what makes a skilled language learner. At the same time the author discusses what is known about teaching procedures and how they are used by the learner; how tasks are set up, how tasks determine the student's approach, how teachers' feedback is formulated and how students use the feedback and incorporate it in the development of their skills in the language. Throughout the discussion the author presents the growing body of knowledge from qualitative and descriptive research on second language development and draws implications for the development of teaching and learning strategies.

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Recensione

A clearly written and well-presented mixture of overview and comment on research into learer perception of the language-learning process.
English Language Teaching Journal

Contenuti

Preface
Strategy, process and skill in language learning - What this book is all about
Plan of the book
Preliminary discussions
Some possible implications
User-friendliness of these research methods
Strategies for talking - Learners talking
Early work
Strategy for use in classrooms
Taxonomies of strategies used in talk
Strategic competence and individual characteristics
Compensatory strategies and think-aloud enquiry
Speech acts
Summary
Receiving and understanding language: reading and listening - Introduction
Problems in reading and listening comprehension
Strategies in reading
Strategies in listening
Summary
The writing process - Introduction
Investigations
An example of a think-aloud protocol: talking while writing
Feedback
Summary and implications
Learning to learn and teaching to learn - Introduction
Eight questions about learning strategies
Descriptive studies
Student perceptions of the learning task
Interventionist studies
Summary and conclusions
Skills and strategies in test-taking - Introduction
What test takers do: test taking strategies
Construct validity
Problems with test-taking strategy research
Conclusions
Strategies and skills in the classroom
Introduction
Implications for classroom management and materials design
Implications for syllabus design
Student views of the learning process
Evaluation
Summary and conclusions
References
Index

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0340591099
• ISBN 13: 9780340591093
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 160
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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