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

This book serves as a comprehensive reference resource for current and prospective English language teachers, students of TESOL, academics, and other professionals working within the field of Teaching English as a Second or Other Language (TESOL).

As an essential single-volume resource, TESOL: A Guide explores TESOL in three dimensions: as a profession, as a field of study, and as an international association. In doing so, it offers a thorough summary of themes and issue relevant to TESOL's multiple dimensions, including a practical overview of the TESOL profession and a...

Die Interpretationen zu Geschichten uber Sprache aus drei Jahrtausenden zeigen, dass sich unser Denken und Wissen uber Sprache nicht nur begrifflich in Form von Theorien konkretisieren lasst, sondern auch narrativ in Form von Erzahlungen. Die narrative Objektivierungsweise hat gegenuber der begrifflichen ganz bestimmte Vorteile. Wir lernen die Sprache nicht in methodisch motivierten abstrakten Vereinfachungen kennen, sondern in konkreten kognitiven und kommunikativen Handlungszusammenhangen. Dadurch tritt sie fur uns als ein sehr komplexes Phanomen in Erscheinung, das nicht leicht auf...

Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Studie ist ein zentrales Paradox des kommunikativen Fremdsprachenunterrichts: Das Lernziel der kommunikativen Kompetenz ist ein Ideal geblieben, meist entwickelt sich nur eine Minderheit schulischer Fremdsprachenlerner zu engagiert in eigener Sache Kommunizierenden, zu kompetenten und konversationell flexiblen Sprechern. Diese negative Bilanz wird im theoretischen Teil unter zwei sich erganzenden Gesichtspunkten hinterfragt: dem der Interaktion und dem der Kognition. Zum einen ist die starre schulische Gesprachslogik mit ihren vorhersehbaren Ablaufen dem...

This book examines the status of English Studies in India, aspirations pinned on the subject by students, teachers, policy-makers and society in general, and how these are addressed at the higher education level. It presents analytical background discussions of the history and policy environment, and offers open-ended, multi-faceted and multi-vocal accounts of particular aspects of contemporary Indian English Studies, including curriculum, pedagogy, research, employment, relation to Indian vernaculars and translation studies. Reconsidering English Studies in Indian Higher Education...

This book" "explores some of the recent research undertaken on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). It offers an overview of several European contexts, describing experiences that could be extrapolated to many other communities worldwide.

Contributions focus on issues related to language policy, moving from high-level policymaking to grassroots decisions, but all of them encompassing the major changes that can be recognized in education, which also evidence the shifts in society and economic life that have taken place in Europe in the last decades. These changes in language...

Shadowing, an active and highly cognitive technique for EFL listening skill development, in which learners track heard speech and vocalize it simultaneously, is gradually becoming recognized. However, there remain a lot of mysteries and misunderstandings about it. This book uncovers shadowing in terms of theory and practice. This book cements shadowing as a separate technique from other similar techniques such as Elicited Imitation, Mirroring, and simple repetition, and provides ample empirical data to explain the function of Shadowing. It also elaborates on how Shadowing should be used in...

Oxford, the home of lost causes, the epitome of the world of medieval and renaissance learning in Britain, has always fascinated at a variety of levels: social, institutional, cultural. Its rival, Cambridge, was long dominated by mathematics, while Oxford's leading study was Classics. In this pioneering book, 16 leading authorities explore a variety of aspects of Oxford Classics in the last two hundred years: curriculum, teaching and learning, scholarly style, publishing, gender and social exclusion and the impact of German scholarship. Greats (Literae Humaniores) is the most celebrated...

The Role of English Teaching in Modern Japan examines the complex nature of Japan s promotion of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). In globalized societies where people with different native languages communicate through English, multicultural and multilinguistic interactions are widely created. This book takes the opportunity to look at Japan and examines how these multiple realities have affected its English language teaching within the domestic context.

The myth of Japan s racial and ethnic homogeneity may hinder many Japanese in recognizing realities of its own minority groups...