The Impact of Socio-Cultural Learning Tasks on Students' Foreign Grammatical Language Awareness: A Study Conducted in German Post-Desi Efl Classrooms

ISBN-13: 9783631665763 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 294 str.

Heike Niesen

Opis

Introducing an innovative way of teaching grammatical language awareness via socio-cultural learning tasks, this book takes a close look at task-supported teaching/learning and socio-cultural learning theory and how they are combined to develop challenging and motivating learning tasks.

Spis treści

Contents: Combination of task-supported language teaching/learning and socio-cultural learning theory - Development of socio-cultural learning tasks (SCLTs) - Implementation of SCLTs in EFL classroom (treatment group) - Implementation of PPP (control group) - Evaluation of SCLTs in a quasi-experimental study (target: students' grammatical language awareness).

O autorze

Heike Niesen has been teaching English and German linguistics and literature since 2006. She received her PhD at the University of Luxembourg in 2014. As a teacher-researcher she is particularly interested in practical and theoretical issues of EFL teaching and learning, lexical semantics, pragmatics and neurolingustics.