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

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (861 p.)
• Disciplina: 418.0071
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Study and teaching; Second language acquisition
• Altri autori: LongMichael H DoughtyCatherine
• 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""
• Sommario/riassunto: Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, this Handbook is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference guide to language teaching. * A comprehensive reference work on language teaching, which combines the latest research findings, coverage of core topics, and examples of teaching experience from a variety of languages and settings * Provides a unique breadth of coverage, including: the psycholinguistic underpinnings of language learning; social, political, and educational contexts; program design; materials writing and course design; teaching and testing; teacher education; and assessment and evaluation * Offers a balanced evaluation of the major positions and approaches, including examining the increasingly important social and political context of language teaching * Written by an international and interdisciplinary group of authors from a dozen different countries; English is only one of the many languages used as examples throughout the volume
• Titolo autorizzato: The handbook of language teaching
• ISBN: 9786612371820; 9781444315790; 144431579X; 9781780341873; 1780341873; 9781444315783; 1444315781; 9781444331523; 1444331523; 9781282371828; 1282371827; 9781444345612; 1444345613
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911020024203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.