Estas unidades didácticas pretenden ser un instrumento de apoyo para aquellos alumnos que, partiendo de unos conocimientos previos de la lengua inglesa a nivel intermedio, necesiten trabajar las principales estructuras y usos del idioma desde un punto de vista práctico. Mediante una serie de actividades que van desde la formación de palabras o revisión de reglas ortográficas a los ejercicios de morfosintaxis y, finalmente, de comprensión y expresión escrita, se pretende que el estudiante vaya adquiriendo una razonable destreza comunicativa. Esta práctica lingüística está basada en la lectura detenida de una serie de textos, tomados de muy diversas fuentes y con un variado contenido. El segundo volumen incluye las soluciones a los ejercicios. En los CD-Rom están grabados los textos, la mayor parte de los ejercicios y los diálogos de cada capítulo y permite realizar ejercicios interactivos de diversa índole.
Estas unidades didácticas pretenden ser un instrumento de apoyo para aquellos alumnos que, partiendo de unos conocimientos previos de la lengua inglesa a nivel intermedio, necesiten trabajar las principales estructuras y usos del idioma desde un punto de vista práctico. Mediante una serie de actividades que van desde la formación de palabras o revisión de reglas ortográficas a los ejercicios de morfosintaxis y, finalmente, de comprensión y expresión escrita, se pretende que el estudiante vaya adquiriendo una razonable destreza comunicativa. Esta práctica lingüística está basada en la lectura detenida de una serie de textos, tomados de muy diversas fuentes y con un variado contenido. El segundo volumen incluye las soluciones a los ejercicios. En los CD-Rom están grabados los textos, la mayor parte de los ejercicios y los diálogos de cada capítulo y permite realizar ejercicios interactivos de diversa índole.
This collection of original articles provides language teachers with a theoretical background of key issues associated with language testing as well as practical advice on how to improve the effectiveness of the tests they develop and implement. Written by internationally prominent researchers and educators, the chapters are organized into five sections: key issues in the field, assessment purposes and approaches, assessment of second language skills, technology in assessment, and administrative issues. Chapters assume no particular background knowledge and are written in an accessible style.
Written for language teachers in training, this book surveys issues and procedures in conducting practice teaching. Written for language teachers in training at the diploma, undergraduate, or graduate level, Practice Teaching, A Reflective Approach surveys issues and procedures in conducting practice teaching. The book adopts a reflective approach to practice teaching and shows student teachers how to explore and reflect on the nature of language teaching and their own approaches to teaching through their experience of practice teaching.
More than 130 activities as well as tips and suggestions for using the classroom board more effectively and efficiently. This book provides tips and suggestions to help language teachers use their classroom boards more effectively and efficiently. More than 130 activities for the board to help teachers both teach and assess their students are included. These activities will also provide opportunities for students, whatever their age or level of competency, to learn and practice specific lexical, phonetic, or grammatical items; attain increased fluency in their writing, reading, listening, and speaking skills; teach and learn from their peers; practice self-assessment; get to know each other and other cultures better; and have fun during the learning process.
This book helps language teachers become more aware of their teaching beliefs, attitudes, and practices. The paperback edition helps language teachers explore their teaching beliefs, attitudes and practices. It provides teachers with the kind of knowledge and guidelines that can empower them to make more informed teaching decisions. As such, teacher educators will find this a practical book to use in training courses.
Language Learning in Intercultural Perspective addresses the ways in which language learning is related to learning about other cultures and to acquiring an ability to communicate across cultural frontiers. It argues that language learners need to develop sensitivity to cultural difference and its impact on communication, and to acquire the skills of discovering and interpreting other cultures, other values, beliefs and behaviours which lie beneath the surface of cross-cultural communication. Contributors show how drama can be used to develop cultural awareness and how learners can acquire ethnographic skills to help them investigate and understand socio-cultural aspects of language which play an important role in second language acquisition. The contributors are all respected educationalists from a range of countries and different cultural contexts.
This text is about what really happens in language classrooms. This paperback edition is about what really happens in language classrooms, both those in which language is the topic of instruction and those where it functions primarily as the medium of instruction. In this collection of 19 original papers, the authors utilize a variety of research methods, with an emphasis on the collection and analysis of data. Chapters investigate such issues as language-related anxiety, curriculum renewal, classroom interaction, teachers' on-line decision-making, and sociopolitical concerns affecting life in schools.
This text provides a detailed account of current approaches to the education of teachers of second languages. The paperback edition provides a detailed account of current approaches to the education of teachers of second languages. It offers valuable ideas on the observation and supervision of classrooms, on self-evaluation by teachers, and on teaching itself. Its emphasis reflects the shift in orientation from teacher training to teacher education, in which teachers are involved in developing their own theories of teaching, understanding the nature of teacher decision making, and developing strategies for critical self-evaluation. The book is aimed at teachers, teacher educators, and workshop facilitators involved both in pre-service and in-service education of teachers of second and foreign languages.
Teachers of English need not only to have a good productive command of the language; they also need to know a good deal about the way the language works. This book asks: 'What is it that a teacher needs to know about English in order to teach it effectively?' It leads teachers to awareness of the language through a wide range of tasks which involve them in analysing English to discover its underlying system. The book consists of 28 units, each containing around ten tasks, plus a diagnostic introductory unit. Units start at phoneme level and progress through words, phrases and sentences on to complete texts. Task-types include recognition, categorisation, matching, explanation, and application tasks. Throughout the book, the language is illustrated wherever possible from authentic sources, so that the teacher can be sure that the English being studied represents current usage.
Este libro refleja una investigación sobre las posibilidades vigentes del enfoque comunicativo en la enseñanza del inglés en Secundaria y Bachillerato. Dicho estudio muestra que su puesta en práctica ha sido y es casi inexistente, dados determinados obstáculos que, hasta el momento, han impedido su implantación real. Entendemos que las tendencias pedagógicas y los cambios educativos actuales no facilitan la práctica ni el desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa de nuestros estudiantes en las aulas.
Are you interested in Art and the Humanities? Have you been learning English for a long time but do not have enough confidence to carry out tasks in these fields efficiently? Would you like to learn the necessary strategies and skills?. Expanding your English and Creative Skills through Art and the Humanities has been designed for students or professionals who would like to use and improve their English in areas such as: history; art history; literature; film and media; and language, at an upper-intermediate or advanced level. This book integrates practice of the four skills (reading, listening, speaking and writing) and has been written from a holistic and humanistic approach. An important aspect that is emphasized is how to acquire intercultural competence in a globalized world. The approach is a very practical one. You will learn how to carry out tasks such as: commenting on artistic and multimedia materials, providing conservation advice, advertising a product or service
This collection provides an overview of current issues, debates, and approaches in Second Language Teacher Education (SLTE) presented by internationally prominent researchers, educators, and emerging scholars. Chapters address such issues as distance education, non-native English-speaking educators, technology, assessment, standards, and the changing contexts of contemporary language teaching and teacher education.
Society and the Language Classroom provides a new perspective on classroom research. Through a series of case studies, it examines the ways that learners and teachers behave in English language classrooms in different parts of the world, including Australia, South Africa, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, China and Pakistan, and at primary, secondary and tertiary level. Thought-provoking issues emerging from the case studies include the possibility that: - learners' expectations of what behaviour is appropriate in the classroom may thwart teachers' attempts to bring about change; - innovation may have unpredictable consequences unless careful study of classroom behaviour has been carried out. This approach to the interpretation of classroom behaviour has important implications, particularly for teachers, teacher educators and curriculum planners.
El autor nos presenta los diferentes puntos de vista a los que las obras literarias han sido sometidas por los distintos críticos y traductores. Según los estudios que aparecen en esta obra, se debe tener siempre presente que una obra literaria puede ser interpretada y también traducida de forma diferente según los enfoques a los que sea sometido el texto (literarios, lingüísticos, religiosos, políticos, etc.).
Estas unidades didácticas pretenden ser un instrumento de apoyo para aquellos alumnos que, partiendo de unos conocimientos previos de la lengua inglesa a nivel intermedio, necesiten trabajar las principales estructuras y usos del idioma desde un punto de vista práctico. Mediante una serie de actividades que van desde la formación de palabras o revisión de reglas ortográficas a los ejercicios de morfosintaxis y, finalmente, de comprensión y expresión escrita, se pretende que el estudiante vaya adquiriendo una razonable destreza comunicativa. Esta práctica lingüística está basada en la lectura detenida de una serie de textos, tomados de muy diversas fuentes y con un variado contenido. El segundo volumen incluye las soluciones a los ejercicios. En los CD-Rom están grabados los textos, la mayor parte de los ejercicios y los diálogos de cada capítulo y permite realizar ejercicios interactivos de diversa índole.
Estas unidades didácticas pretenden ser un instrumento de apoyo para aquellos alumnos que, partiendo de unos conocimientos previos de la lengua inglesa a nivel intermedio, necesiten trabajar las principales estructuras y usos del idioma desde un punto de vista práctico. Mediante una serie de actividades que van desde la formación de palabras o revisión de reglas ortográficas a los ejercicios de morfosintaxis y, finalmente, de comprensión y expresión escrita, se pretende que el estudiante vaya adquiriendo una razonable destreza comunicativa. Esta práctica lingüística está basada en la lectura detenida de una serie de textos, tomados de muy diversas fuentes y con un variado contenido. El segundo volumen incluye las soluciones a los ejercicios. En los CD-Rom están grabados los textos, la mayor parte de los ejercicios y los diálogos de cada capítulo y permite realizar ejercicios interactivos de diversa índole.
This collection of original articles provides language teachers with a theoretical background of key issues associated with language testing as well as practical advice on how to improve the effectiveness of the tests they develop and implement. Written by internationally prominent researchers and educators, the chapters are organized into five sections: key issues in the field, assessment purposes and approaches, assessment of second language skills, technology in assessment, and administrative issues. Chapters assume no particular background knowledge and are written in an accessible style.
Written for language teachers in training, this book surveys issues and procedures in conducting practice teaching. Written for language teachers in training at the diploma, undergraduate, or graduate level, Practice Teaching, A Reflective Approach surveys issues and procedures in conducting practice teaching. The book adopts a reflective approach to practice teaching and shows student teachers how to explore and reflect on the nature of language teaching and their own approaches to teaching through their experience of practice teaching.
More than 130 activities as well as tips and suggestions for using the classroom board more effectively and efficiently. This book provides tips and suggestions to help language teachers use their classroom boards more effectively and efficiently. More than 130 activities for the board to help teachers both teach and assess their students are included. These activities will also provide opportunities for students, whatever their age or level of competency, to learn and practice specific lexical, phonetic, or grammatical items; attain increased fluency in their writing, reading, listening, and speaking skills; teach and learn from their peers; practice self-assessment; get to know each other and other cultures better; and have fun during the learning process.
This book helps language teachers become more aware of their teaching beliefs, attitudes, and practices. The paperback edition helps language teachers explore their teaching beliefs, attitudes and practices. It provides teachers with the kind of knowledge and guidelines that can empower them to make more informed teaching decisions. As such, teacher educators will find this a practical book to use in training courses.
Language Learning in Intercultural Perspective addresses the ways in which language learning is related to learning about other cultures and to acquiring an ability to communicate across cultural frontiers. It argues that language learners need to develop sensitivity to cultural difference and its impact on communication, and to acquire the skills of discovering and interpreting other cultures, other values, beliefs and behaviours which lie beneath the surface of cross-cultural communication. Contributors show how drama can be used to develop cultural awareness and how learners can acquire ethnographic skills to help them investigate and understand socio-cultural aspects of language which play an important role in second language acquisition. The contributors are all respected educationalists from a range of countries and different cultural contexts.
This text is about what really happens in language classrooms. This paperback edition is about what really happens in language classrooms, both those in which language is the topic of instruction and those where it functions primarily as the medium of instruction. In this collection of 19 original papers, the authors utilize a variety of research methods, with an emphasis on the collection and analysis of data. Chapters investigate such issues as language-related anxiety, curriculum renewal, classroom interaction, teachers' on-line decision-making, and sociopolitical concerns affecting life in schools.
This text provides a detailed account of current approaches to the education of teachers of second languages. The paperback edition provides a detailed account of current approaches to the education of teachers of second languages. It offers valuable ideas on the observation and supervision of classrooms, on self-evaluation by teachers, and on teaching itself. Its emphasis reflects the shift in orientation from teacher training to teacher education, in which teachers are involved in developing their own theories of teaching, understanding the nature of teacher decision making, and developing strategies for critical self-evaluation. The book is aimed at teachers, teacher educators, and workshop facilitators involved both in pre-service and in-service education of teachers of second and foreign languages.
Teachers of English need not only to have a good productive command of the language; they also need to know a good deal about the way the language works. This book asks: 'What is it that a teacher needs to know about English in order to teach it effectively?' It leads teachers to awareness of the language through a wide range of tasks which involve them in analysing English to discover its underlying system. The book consists of 28 units, each containing around ten tasks, plus a diagnostic introductory unit. Units start at phoneme level and progress through words, phrases and sentences on to complete texts. Task-types include recognition, categorisation, matching, explanation, and application tasks. Throughout the book, the language is illustrated wherever possible from authentic sources, so that the teacher can be sure that the English being studied represents current usage.
Este libro refleja una investigación sobre las posibilidades vigentes del enfoque comunicativo en la enseñanza del inglés en Secundaria y Bachillerato. Dicho estudio muestra que su puesta en práctica ha sido y es casi inexistente, dados determinados obstáculos que, hasta el momento, han impedido su implantación real. Entendemos que las tendencias pedagógicas y los cambios educativos actuales no facilitan la práctica ni el desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa de nuestros estudiantes en las aulas.
Are you interested in Art and the Humanities? Have you been learning English for a long time but do not have enough confidence to carry out tasks in these fields efficiently? Would you like to learn the necessary strategies and skills?. Expanding your English and Creative Skills through Art and the Humanities has been designed for students or professionals who would like to use and improve their English in areas such as: history; art history; literature; film and media; and language, at an upper-intermediate or advanced level. This book integrates practice of the four skills (reading, listening, speaking and writing) and has been written from a holistic and humanistic approach. An important aspect that is emphasized is how to acquire intercultural competence in a globalized world. The approach is a very practical one. You will learn how to carry out tasks such as: commenting on artistic and multimedia materials, providing conservation advice, advertising a product or service
This collection provides an overview of current issues, debates, and approaches in Second Language Teacher Education (SLTE) presented by internationally prominent researchers, educators, and emerging scholars. Chapters address such issues as distance education, non-native English-speaking educators, technology, assessment, standards, and the changing contexts of contemporary language teaching and teacher education.
Society and the Language Classroom provides a new perspective on classroom research. Through a series of case studies, it examines the ways that learners and teachers behave in English language classrooms in different parts of the world, including Australia, South Africa, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, China and Pakistan, and at primary, secondary and tertiary level. Thought-provoking issues emerging from the case studies include the possibility that: - learners' expectations of what behaviour is appropriate in the classroom may thwart teachers' attempts to bring about change; - innovation may have unpredictable consequences unless careful study of classroom behaviour has been carried out. This approach to the interpretation of classroom behaviour has important implications, particularly for teachers, teacher educators and curriculum planners.
El autor nos presenta los diferentes puntos de vista a los que las obras literarias han sido sometidas por los distintos críticos y traductores. Según los estudios que aparecen en esta obra, se debe tener siempre presente que una obra literaria puede ser interpretada y también traducida de forma diferente según los enfoques a los que sea sometido el texto (literarios, lingüísticos, religiosos, políticos, etc.).