Download or read book The Development of Modern language Skills written by Kenneth Chastain and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development of Modern language Skills written by Kenneth Chastain and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Current Trends in the Development and Teaching of the four Language Skills written by Esther Usó-Juan and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current Trends in the Development and Teaching of the four Language Skills builds connections from theory in the four language skills to instructional practices. It comprises twenty-one chapters that are grouped in five sections. The first section includes an introductory chapter which presents a communicative competence framework developed by the editors in order to highlight the key role the four skills play in language learning and teaching. The next four sections each represent a language skill: Section II is devoted to listening, Section III to speaking, Section IV to reading and Section V to writing. In order to provide an extensive treatment of each of the four skills, each section starts with a theoretical chapter which briefly illustrates advances in the understanding of how each skill is likely to be learned and taught, followed by four didactically oriented chapters authored by leading international specialists. These pedagogical chapters deal specifically with four key topics: 1) areas of research that influence the teaching of a particular skill; 2) an overview of strategies or techniques necessary for developing a particular skill; 3) an approach to the academic orientation of a particular skill, and 4) unique aspects of teaching each skill. Moreover, all chapters incorporate two common sections: pre-reading questions at the beginning of the chapter in order to stimulate readers' interest in its content, and a section entitled suggested activities at the end of the chapter in order to allow readers put the ideas and concepts presented into practice. The accessible style and practical focus of the volume make it an ideal tool for teachers, teacher trainers, and teacher trainees who are involved in teaching the four language skills in a second or foreign language context.
Download or read book New Perspectives on the Development of Communicative and Related Competence in Foreign Language Education written by Izumi Walker and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly half a century has passed since Hymes proposed the concept of communicative competence to describe the knowledge and skills required for the appropriate use of language in a social context. During these decades, a number of scholars have applied and refined this concept. In language education, communicative competence has been identified as a major objective of learning. This book will inform readers about communicative competence as a highly complex construct encompassing an array of sub-competencies such as linguistic skills and proficiencies, knowledge of socio-cultural and socio-pragmatic codes, and the ability to engage in textual and conversational discourse. Findings from research in related disciplines have pointed to the significance of factors that can contribute to the attainment of communicative competence. Various teaching practices and relevant Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools will be also introduced and discussed to achieve communicative competence as a complex ability. It is a timely contribution to current research on key areas in the teaching, learning and acquisition of second/foreign languages.
Download or read book Language Skills written by Halina Chodkiewicz and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings an international perspective to language skills – an area of importance to both theorists and practitioners in all contexts of language teaching and learning. The twenty-seven chapters included here are arranged into six sections devoted to fundamental background issues, spoken interaction, perception of speech sounds and production skills, reading contexts and purposes, writing challenges for advanced learners, and technology and language skills. Explored themes range from the conceptualization of language as skill and the development of L2 skills in communicative and intercultural approaches, through challenges in teaching specific skills and their components, to the consideration of the possibilities and limitations of the use of modern technology in assisting students in skill acquisition. The volume’s contributors point to the multiaspectuality of the process of developing language skills with reference to different age groups, diverse educational and social contexts, as well as instructional activities focusing on isolated and integrated skills. The book also includes original empirical studies concerning learning, teaching, and testing numerous aspects of language skills in L2 attainment. The book will be of interest to researchers, classroom teachers, and specialists in language education, philology and applied linguistics, as well as to graduate students involved in the study of language skills acquisition and instruction.
Download or read book Advances in the Teaching of Modern Languages written by G. Mathieu and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in the Teaching of Modern Languages is a compilation of essays that addresses such issues as the development made in using machines as instructors in language education. A section also highlights the effectiveness of machines in teaching humans a certain language. Essay such as Oklahoma Revisited features the experimental teaching machine named the AVID. The book also contains essays that expound on the necessity of retaining human instructors in the language department. A section discusses the importance of training the foreign language teachers. Methods that improve the ability of the teachers to effectively teach the students are enumerated. Aspects of the language such as phonetics, phonology, graphemes, lexical variation drills, and audio- lingual techniques are covered. The text will be a useful learning tool for primary and secondary instructors who teach English and other foreign languages. The book will also benefit researchers and professionals in the field of language education.
Download or read book Self assessment of Foreign Language Skills written by Mats Oskarsson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review of research in self-assessment techniques for foreign language skills is based on a survey of the literature and the results of a survey of teachers, researchers, and administrators in adult education centers in many areas of the world. Two late 1970s surveys of self-assessment research and pilot experiments concerning the general validity and usefulness of learners' estimates are described, and more recent research is reviewed. A growing body of research on the use of self-assessment procedures for continuous evaluation purposes is also examined, and the survey results are reported. The pattern emerging is of consistent overall agreement of self-estimates and external criteria, but the need for practice in autonomous learning and self-directed evaluation is emphasized in some of the sources, and it is suggested that teacher training in these areas is a further prerequisite for effective development of self-evaluation techniques. A variety of self-assessment aids are described and illustrated, and it is noted that the kind of instrument seeming to yield the most accurate information consists of descriptions of concrete linguistic situations that the learner can interpret and evaluate in behavioral terms. Implications of the findings and areas needing further study are discussed. (Author/MSE)
Download or read book Early Learning of Modern Foreign Languages written by Marianne Nikolov and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2009 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern languages are taught to young learners at an increasingly early age, yet few publications focus on what is available to children in different contexts and classrooms. This book represents the state-of-the-art in research on young language learners. Covering a range of languages, contexts and research methods, it provides insights into how young learners progress.
Download or read book Effective Learning and Teaching in Modern Languages written by James A. Coleman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written to meet the needs of teachers, lecturers and tutors, this is the definitive guide to surveying and understanding the key issues, best practices and new developments in teaching modern languages.
Download or read book Teaching Foreign Language Skills written by Wilga M. Rivers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original publication in 1968, Rivers's comprehensive and practical text has become a standard reference for both student teachers and veteran instructors. All who wish to draw from the most recent thinking in the field will welcome this new edition. Methodology is appraised, followed up by discussions on such matters as keeping students of differing abilities active, evaluating textbooks, using language labs creatively, and preparing effective exercises and drills. The author ends each chapter of this new edition with questions for research and discussion—a useful classroom tool—and provides an up-to-date bibliography that facilitates further understanding of such matters as the bilingual classroom.
Download or read book The Importance Of Language Skills The Ample Benefits Of Enhancing Your Language Skills And How Improving Your Language Skills Will Strengthen Your Communication Skills And Persuasiveness written by Dr Harrison Sachs and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-08 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay sheds light on the importance of language skills and elucidates the benefits of enhancing your language skills. Moreover, how improving your language skills will strengthen your communication skills and persuasiveness is delineated in this essay. The eminent importance of building language skills as an indispensable component of cultural training programs is often overlooked. Language skills are critical to hone for effective communication skills of which employees who are slated to be transferred to the company's overseas division should competently master. The importance of knowing multiple languages and understanding cultural nuances goes beyond being able to attain more success in an international corporate environment. The benefits of honing language skills are multitudinous and can be highly advantageous for the individual to eminently enhance. "Language not only enhances the capability to understand other cultures, but the ability to understand, speak, read, and write in world languages, in addition to English, is critical to success in business, research, and international relations. Moreover, foreign languages are the most critical communication tools we have to develop relationships across cultures and solve complex cross border challenges-both at home and overseas. In a business setting, communicating in the first language of the client results in more effective business" ("25 Reasons Why," 2017). "Language training renders employees more confident when working with teams, partners, and vendors. Beyond, language acquisition being a bridge into other cultures, new empirical evidence suggests that language learning also encourages the development of empathy and effective interpretive skills. Language learning is only going to grow in importance as globalization makes the world more and more interconnected and 71% of business leaders are currently planning to grow in markets in which English is not spoken" ("25 Reasons Why"). The benefits of enhancing language skills are unequivocally profound since it allows you to more efficaciously communicate with more ethnic groups, bridge into more cultures, pursue more career opportunities abroad, more effectively navigate through foreign environments, and be able to better understand the needs of more cultural groups. Being multilingual and knowing how to communicate more effectively and persuasively with ample ethnic groups by competently understanding their needs, body language, and cultural nuances is a pragmatic and transferable skill that can be applied to contexts outside the business world. For instance, these language skills render traveling less of a cumbersome process, public speaking in foreign countries less strenuous, and networking abroad far more viable since possessing robust language skills from being multilingual can help dismantle language barriers. Moreover, possessing stellar language skills allows you to more seamlessly be successful in foreign environments, especially when you are not stifled by cultural misunderstandings, communication issues, and insurmountable language barriers. Also, improving your lexicon by assimilating more vocabulary words will not only help you better articulate your thoughts and ideas, but will also allow you to speak more persuasively as a result of having significantly improved verbiage to leverage. Being able to understand the subtleties of social ques, body language, and the audience responsiveness of foreign cultural groups will also allow you to further hone your public speaking skills and persuasiveness by being able make adjustments in real time to ameliorate your speeches based on the audience's receptiveness. Improving your language skills entails also augmenting your emotional language skills so that you can speak with more conviction, impact, and influence. Persuading the audience also involves not only establishing common ground with your audience, but also framing your message in a persuasive manner.
Download or read book Modern Language Teachin Volume 9 written by Modern Language Association (Great Br and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Language Teaching is a seminal work in the field of foreign language pedagogy. Edited by the Modern Language Association of Great Britain, it brings together leading scholars and practitioners in the teaching and learning of languages, discussing various methods, techniques, and approaches to language education. The book covers a wide range of topics, such as grammar instruction, vocabulary acquisition, listening comprehension, speaking skills, reading strategies, and cultural awareness, among others. It also presents case studies, research findings, and practical suggestions for enhancing language proficiency and motivation. Modern Language Teaching is a must-read for language teachers, curriculum designers, and language program administrators. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Education for Sustainable Development in Foreign Language Learning written by María J. de la Fuente and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume utilizes the UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) framework to illustrate successful integration of sustainability education in post-secondary foreign language (FL) learning. Showcasing a variety of approaches to using content-based instruction (CBI) in college-level courses, this text valuably demonstrates how topics relating to environmental, social, and cultural dimensions of sustainability can be integrated in FL curricula. Chapters draw on case studies from colleges throughout the US and consider theoretical and practical concerns relating to models of sustainability-based teaching and learning. Chapters present examples of project-, problem-, and task-based approaches, as well as field work, debate, and reflective pedagogies to enhance students’ awareness and engagement with sustainable development issues as they acquire a foreign language. Insights and recommendations apply across languages and highlight the potential contribution of FL learning to promote sustainability literacy amongst learners. This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators in higher education with an interest in Modern Foreign Languages, sustainability education, training, and leadership more broadly.
Download or read book Advances in the Teaching of Modern Languages written by B. Libbish and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Languages written by Alison Phipps and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-05-24 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible book is written by teachers of modern languages and tackles the specifics of the discipline while situating it within the literature on teaching Modern Languages in Higher Education.
Download or read book Research in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Trends in Foreign Language Teaching written by Raúl Ruiz Cecilia and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language teaching approaches, methods and procedures are constantly undergoing reassessment. New ideas keep emerging as the growing complexity of the means of communication and the opportunities created by technology put language skills to new uses. In addition, the political, social and economic impact of globalisation, the new demands of the labour market that result from it, the pursuit of competitiveness, the challenges of intercultural communication and the diversification of culture have opened new perspectives on the central role that foreign languages have come to play in the development of contemporary societies. This book provides an insight into the latest developments in the field and discusses the new trends in foreign language teaching in four major areas, namely methods and approaches, teacher training, innovation in the classroom, and evaluation and assessment.
