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Record Nr.

UNINA9910877558503321

Titolo

The handbook of language teaching / / edited by Michael H. Long and Catherine J. Doughty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

ISBN

1-4443-1579-X

1-78034-187-3

1-4443-1578-1

1-4443-3152-3

1-282-37182-7

9786612371820

1-4443-4561-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (861 p.)

Collana

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

LongMichael H

DoughtyCatherine

Disciplina

418.0071

Soggetti

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Second language acquisition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half Title page""; ""Series page""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Contributors""; ""Part I: Overview""; ""Chapter 1: Language Teaching""; ""Notes""; ""Part II: Social, Political, and Educational Contexts of Language Teaching""; ""Chapter 2: The Social and Sociolinguistic Contexts of Language Learning and Teaching""; ""The Social Context of Language Learning and Teaching""; ""The Sociolinguistic Context of Language Learning and Teaching""; ""Major Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching Contexts""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""

""Chapter 3: The Politics and Policies of Language and Language Teaching""""Introduction""; ""Historical and Global Contextualization""; ""Politics and/or Policy?""; ""Linguistic Human Rights, Linguistic Diversity, and Language Maintenance in and through Education: Issues of Language Policy and Politics""; ""Language Policy, Exemplified by the European Region""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Further Reading"";



""Chapter 4: History of Language Teaching""; ""The Context of Second-Language Teaching""; ""Beliefs about Language Learning, Methodologies and Historical Context""

""The Role and Status of the Language Teacher""""The Role and Status of the Learner""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Part III: Psycholinguistic Underpinnings of Language Learning""; ""Chapter 5: The Language-Learning Brain""; ""What is Neurolinguistics?""; ""Some Promising Neurolinguistic Research""; ""Neurolinguistic Research and L2 Learning and Teaching""; ""Some Confusions""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Chapter 6: Sequences and Processes in Language Learning""; ""Learner Language or Interlanguage""; ""Sequences in Language Learning""; ""Processes""

""Sequences, Processes, and Instruction: Five Generalizations and a Coda""""Note""; ""References""; ""Chapter 7: The Importance of Cross-Linguistic Similarity in Foreign Language Learning""; ""Actual, Perceived, and Assumed Similarities""; ""Types of Cross-Linguistic Similarity Relationships""; ""Item Transfer and System Transfer in Comprehension, Learning, and Production""; ""Implications for Teaching""; ""References""; ""Further Reading""; ""Chapter 8: Cognitive-Psychological Processes in Second Language Learning""; ""The Components of Second Language Knowledge""

""How the Components of Second Language Knowledge Are Used""""How the Components of Second Language Knowledge Are Learned, Acquired, Practiced, Monitored, and Consolidated""; ""References""; ""Chapter 9: Optimizing the Input: Frequency and Sampling in Usage-Based and Form-Focused Learning""; ""Estimating How Language Works: From Tokens to Types to System""; ""The Units of Language Acquisition""; ""Acquiring Constructions""; ""Frequency and the Roles of Input""; ""Tuning the System: Frequency and the Attainment of Nativelike Fluency and Selection""

""The Language Calculator Has No "Clear" Button""