Description
Book SynopsisLearning to Plan Modern Languages Lessons contains a wealth of guidance and ideas for those learning to teach in secondary schools. Drawing on extensive experience and research in the field, it offers detailed explanation of basic lesson planning methods and the principles that underpin them, illustrated by worked examples of well-planned lessons.
The book shows how to progress from planning smaller activities to full lessons to sequences of lessons, and how to ensure progression for your students. Specific aspects of language learning such as grammar and culture are explored, together with ideas for how to make your planning skills more effective in long-term collaborative and reflective practice. Starting from a presentation, practice, production (PPP) model of language teaching, the book aims to:
- provide structured, practical starting points in lesson planning for beginning teachers of modern languages (ML);
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Getting Started
Chapter 1: Basics done well
Chapter 2: Planning for individual activities
Part II: Well planned lessons
Chapter 3: Planning whole lessons
Chapter 4: Lesson planning process
Part III: Planning for a balanced language learning experience
Chapter 5: Different sorts of ML lessons
Chapter 6: Longer-term planning
Part IV: Getting better at planning
Chapter 7: Developing your planning abilities during the ITE period
Chapter 8: Next steps
Final reflections
Annotated List of Further Reading and Sources
