Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Study & Teaching

This book highlights the pivotal role that nonverbal behavior plays in target language communication, affect and cognition. It integrates research tenets and video demonstrations of nonverbal behavior with structured activities that will guide teachers and learners of any language to capitalize on the nonverbal means at their disposal. It does not shy away from the challenges that nonverbal communication poses in target language communication, including issues of personal and cultural identity that emerge with languages around the world. With its easy-to-use format, solid research support,...

This book opens up new lines of debate in language learning and intercultural communication through an investigation of tandem language learning (a method of language learning based on mutual language exchange between native speakers and learners of each other s language) in connection with intercultural learning and identity construction. Through an empirical study of face-to-face tandem conversations, Jane Woodin provides compelling evidence for the re-definition of the tandem partnership beyond the traditional native speaker non-native speaker (NS-NNS) paradigm. By analyzing...

This book constitutes a holistic study of how and why late starters surpass early starters in comparable instructional settings. Combining advanced quantitative methods with individual-level qualitative data, it examines the role of age of onset in the context of the Swiss multilingual educational system and focuses on performance at the beginning and end of secondary school, thereby offering a long-term view of the teenage experience of foreign language learning. The study scrutinised factors that seem to prevent young starters from profiting from their extended learning period and...

This book explores the realities of feminist EFL teachers' lives through interviews and classroom observations with eight EFL teachers at Japanese universities. The data contained in the book broaden our understanding of feminist teaching in the language classroom while also providing suggestions for practice. The book examines not only how the teachers' feminist identities influence their pedagogical beliefs and practices but also how the teachers actually practice feminist teaching in their classrooms. The tensions, dilemmas and pleasures of feminist teaching converge in this book, which...

Anhand empirischer Daten geht die Autorin der Frage nach, wie Kinder gleichzeitig in zwei Sprachen lesen, schreiben und sprechen lernen. Uber einen Zeitraum von vier Jahren erhob sie Daten, um die bilinguale Sprachpraxis in einem deutsch-italienischen Two-Way-Immersion-Projekt zu untersuchen.

Unter der Annahme, dass sich Repertoires durch sprachliches Handeln ausbauen und umformen, analysiert sie die im Unterrichtskontext und in Interviews entstandenen Beobachtungen im Zusammenhang mit den personlichen Daten der SprecherInnen. Dabei kommt die Autorin zu dem Ergebnis, dass der...

This book constitutes a holistic study of how and why late starters surpass early starters in comparable instructional settings. Combining advanced quantitative methods with individual-level qualitative data, it examines the role of age of onset in the context of the Swiss multilingual educational system and focuses on performance at the beginning and end of secondary school, thereby offering a long-term view of the teenage experience of foreign language learning. The study scrutinised factors that seem to prevent young starters from profiting from their extended learning period and...

Interkulturelle Kompetenz spielt fur das Lernen fremder Sprachen aktuell eine Schlusselrolle. Der Autor untersucht die Leitfragen, wofur eine solche Kompetenz steht und welches Verstandnis von Kultur ihr zu Grunde liegt. Er arbeitet die Problemlage auf, in welchem Mae das Gebot, alle Kulturen zu tolerieren, wunschenswert und umsetzbar ist, und diskutiert zentrale Beitrage zum Thema kritisch. Der Autor schlagt vor, den Fremdsprachenunterricht in Zukunft auf das neue Zielkonstrukt Fremdsprachliche Diskursbewusstheit auszurichten. Fur den Umgang mit Konflikten lehnt er relativistische...

This volume in the ALLC series offers current and soon-to-be professionals in the ESL / EFL field a comprehensive guide to how to make the best use of technology to enhance the English language learning experience. The book has a predominant focus on practical insights that are based on successful real-life experiences at the classroom and study program level, including contributions from teachers in various countries. Nevertheless, there is also a strong foundation in existing research and literature as they relate to the needs of English language teachers. To promote reflective and...

Compelling Conversations - Vietnam: Speaking Exercises for Vietnamese Learners of English

Become who you want to be - in English

Compelling Conversations - Vietnam: Speaking Exercises for Vietnamese Learners of English is the second edition of Compelling Conversations - Vietnam: Questions and Quotations for Advanced Vietnamese English Language Learners. Based on our original and highly successful English as a Second Language (ESL) textbook, Compelling Conversations: Questions and Quotations on Timeless Topics, this unique ELT textbook was created specifically...