Teaching Foreign Languages in the Primary School advises modern foreign language trainee and qualified teachers on how to teach MFL successfully at primary level. This book offers full information, including sections on:

*children's ideas about how to learn languages
*the current situation of MFL in the UK, Europe and elsewhere
*research into second language acquisition (e.g. behaviourist, cognitive and sociocultural perspectives)
*different approaches to teaching foreign languages (e.g. audio lingualism, communicative language teaching, task-based instruction)...