Description
Book SynopsisThis exciting new publication featuring chapters from some of the foremost practitioners in the field of modern languages today closely examines research-based analysis, structural contexts and classroom practice in teaching and learning. After analysing the current situation, each author proposes radical solutions to current problems and the whole book provides much needed fresh thinking on methodology and pedagogy.
Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors
Simon Green: Introduction
Part I Research-based Critical Analysis
1 Michael Grenfell: Learning and Teaching Strategies
2 David Little: Learner Autonomy: Why Foreign Languages Should Occupy a Central Role in the Curriculum
3 Gary Chambers: Motivation and the Learners of Modern Languages
Part II The Current Educational Context
4 Ann Gregory: The Primary Sector
5 Christopher Brumfit: Modern Languages within a Policy for Language in Education
6 Anthony Lodge: Higher Education
Part III Classroom Practice
7 Philip Hood: Logging on to Learning: ICT, Modern Languages and Real Communicative Classrooms?
8 John Thorogood: Vocational Languages: An Analysis of Current Practice and Suggestions for a Way Forward
9 Do Coyle: Meeting the Challenge: Developing the 3Cs Curriculum
Kim Brown: Conclusion: Creative Thinking About a New Modern Languages Pedagogy
