Critical Issues in Foreign Language Instruction

ISBN-13: 9780824044329 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 308 str.

Ellen S. Silber

Opis

Explores the major issues in current foreign language education. Topics covered include the psychology of second language learning; English as a second language; foreign languages in the elementary school; teaching materials; use of technology; foreign language for business; undergraduate and gradua

Spis treści

Introduction Re-visioning Education in Foreign Languages, Ellen S. Silber; Chapter 1 Issues in Foreign Language Program Articulation, Heidi Byrnes; Chapter 2 Psychological Processes in Foreign and Second Language Learning, Gilbert A. Jarvis; Chapter 3 On Paradoxes and Paradigms in Language Education Research, Elizabeth B. Bernhardt, Diane Tedick; Chapter 4 Elementary School Foreign Languages: What Research Can and Cannot Tell Us, Myriam Met; Chapter 5 Dear Wilga, Dear Alice, Dear Tracy, Dear Earl: Four Letters on Methodology and Technology, James P. Pusack, Sue K. Otto; Chapter 6 Material Concerns: Textbooks and Teachers, L. Kathy Heilenman; Chapter 7 Basic Intercultural Education Needs Breadth and Depth: The Role of a Second Culture, Howard Lee Nostrand; Chapter 8 Expanding the Vision of Foreign Language Education: Enter the Less Commonly Taught Languages, A. Ronald Walton; Chapter 9 The Upper-Division Curriculum in Foreign Languages and Literatures: Obstacles to the Realization of Promise, David P. Benseler; Chapter 10 Resetting the Margins: The Outsider in French Literature and Culture, Elissa Gelfand; Chapter 11 Training and Supervision in Foreign Languages: A Diachronic Perspective, Gerard L. Ervin; Chapter 12 Beyond Language Proficiency: The Construct of Knowledge, JoAnn Hammadou; Chapter 13 Foreign Language Faculty Renewal: A Case Study, Eileen Burchell, Ellen S. Silber;

O autorze

Ellen S. Silber