Language teaching theory and methods

Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language: Techniques for Developing Language Skills and Grammar is an indispensable guide for in-training and novice teachers of Arabic as a foreign language and a source of fresh and effective ideas for experienced teachers.

Dynamic Teaching of Russian: Games and Gamification of Learning explores the theory and practice of gamification in language education, with a special focus on Russian, offering an in-depth theoretical account of the psychology of games and their practical application to language teaching.

Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language: Techniques for Developing Language Skills and Grammar is an indispensable guide for in-training and novice teachers of Arabic as a foreign language and a source of fresh and effective ideas for experienced teachers.

Dynamic Teaching of Russian: Games and Gamification of Learning explores the theory and practice of gamification in language education, with a special focus on Russian, offering an in-depth theoretical account of the psychology of games and their practical application to language teaching.

This timely book will guide researchers on how to apply qualitative research methods to explore English-medium instruction (EMI) issues, such as classroom interactions, teachers' and students' perceptions on language and pedagogical challenges, and stakeholders' views on the implementation of EMI.

This book presents a new set of ideas to challenge established thinking and to guide researching and designing teacher professional development.

This book presents a new set of ideas to challenge established thinking and to guide researching and designing teacher professional development.

The seventh edition of this classic second language acquisition (SLA) text provides an overview of the theoretical foundations of language teaching.

This timely book will guide researchers on how to apply qualitative research methods to explore English-medium instruction (EMI) issues, such as classroom interactions, teachers' and students' perceptions on language and pedagogical challenges, and stakeholders' views on the implementation of EMI.

Using Chinese Classics for Intercultural Communicative Competence presents new strategies and tools for integrating Mandarin language teaching with fostering intercultural competencies through contemporary, global lenses on Chinese classic texts.

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Cognitive Task Complexity and Second Language Performance provides an overview of research focusing on the effects of cognitive task complexity (CTC) on second language (L2) performance.

Das Buch enthält einen Kurs für Anfänger und fortgeschrittene Anfänger, wobei die Texte auf Deutsch und auf Türkisch nebeneinander stehen.

*Winner of the 2019 AAAL First Book Award*Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil provides a critical overview and original sociolinguistic analysis of the African American experience in second language learning.

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Second Language Acquisition introduces major current approaches in Arabic second language acquisition (SLA) research and offers empirical findings on crucial aspects and issues to do with the learning of Arabic as a foreign language and Arabic SLA.

Aprender a aprender en la era digital provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account that empowers readers to leverage learning technologies to promote second language learner autonomy.

Focused on the writing process, A Guide to Supervising Non-native English Writers of Theses and Dissertations presents approaches that can be employed by supervisors to help address the writing issues or difficulties that may emerge during the provisional and confirmation phases of the thesis/dissertation journey.

This state-of-the-art exploration of language, culture, and identity is orchestrated through prominent scholars' and teachers' narratives, each weaving together three elements: a personal account based on one or more memorable or critical incidents that occurred in the course of learning or using a second or foreign language; an interpretation of the incidents highlighting their impact in terms of culture, identity, and language; the connections between the experiences and observations of the author and existing literature on language, culture and identity.

According to current estimates, about eighty percent of English teachers worldwide are nonnative speakers of the language.

The Arabic Classroom is a multicontributor work for trainee and in-service teachers of Arabic as a foreign language.

Teaching Language Teachers: Scaffolding Professional Learning provides an updated view of as well as a reader-friendly introduction to the field of Teaching Teachers, with special reference to language teaching.

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Become an Online English Teacher offers new and experienced online teachers a fantastic range of practical information including:essential online tools and applicationseffective tactics for finding students onlineactionable steps on how to set up a blog for your service best practices for promoting your blogrecommended procedures for enrolling new studentsefficient methods for processing online payments practical lesson ideas and resources.

Polish as a Heritage Language Around the World provides a timely insight into Polish diaspora communities around the world and their endeavours in heritage language maintenance and education.

This handbook comprises contributions from key staff working with In Control as well as from colleagues drawn from other leading organisations, partners and allies.

Designed for instructors in schools and universities, as well as stakeholders and policy-makers in education everywhere, this book is a systematic guide to contemporary school teaching of classical languages, literature and civilisation in major countries across the world.

A user-friendly, concept-first approach to ESL helps you learn to read, write and speak English quickly and easilyAs part of our new Must Know series, Must Know High School ESL makes sure what you really need to know is clear up-front.

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What distinguishes this book is its broad, yet thorough, view of theory, process, and research on adult second-language reading.

Äsops Fabeln, auch Äsopika genannt, sind eine Sammlung von Fabeln, die Äsop zugeschrieben werden, einem Sklaven und Geschichtenerzähler, der zwischen 620 und 564 v.

"e; "e;"e;Building Capacity promotes the vision that the teaching of African languages can best achieve its aim of boosting the economic and cultural development of the Africans if they are made to work in synergy with a revamping of the course contents of international languages that will be taught within the frame of a development-oriented literacy curriculum.

Desarrollo Profesional Docente muestra un recorrido pedagógico a partir de la escritura y la expresión artística de la portada.

Este libro es una invitación a distanciarse de las posiciones más generalizadas en el ámbito escolar, y también en la opinión pública, acerca de la lectura de literatura, la comprensión lectora y el placer de la lectura.

Posmodernidad y lectura ofrece un análisis sociocultural del mundo posmoderno consumista –que con distinto nivel de intensidad nos afecta a todos porque somos parte del sistema–, para que las personas que aún leen no dejen de hacerlo.

Este libro aborda diversas problemáticas que plantea la enseñanza de la lengua desde una perspectiva social y cultural.

Maestros, profesores y padres, todos aquellos que se interesan por la educación sienten nostalgia por un pasado concebido como edad dorada en la cual todos leían y escribían, ninguno tenía dificultades para vincularse con la cultura escrita, los chicos llegaban alfabetizados a la escuela, ser docente no sólo era una forma de ascender socialmente sino también un trabajo donde no era necesario inventar, constantemente, nuevos modos de enseñar porque los chicos aprendían como sin querer.

The book brings together two related fields - language testing and language programme evaluation - in a way that no single introductory text has done, and seeks to encourage closer relations between the two in both academic curricula and professional practice.

Este libro proporciona a los docentes, educadores, investigadores y la comunidad academica en general un recurso recopilatorio de experiencias en el uso del portafolio por parte de profesores que lo han implementado en distintas universidades iberoamericanas pretendiendo demostrar, por una parte, su utilidad, y por otra, compartir y ayudar a otros colegas e instituciones que se inician en el uso de esta valiosa herramienta.

Este libro recopila una serie de temas que se han convertido en esfuerzos de indagacion, desafios pedagogicos y preguntas de investigacion para un grupo de mujeres que se dedican a la Ensenanza del Ingles como Lengua Extranjera (TEFL) a nivel nacional e internacional.

Este libro presenta una investigación con el propósito de evaluar una secuencia didáctica aplicada a la escritura de un texto argumentativo como el ensayo académico, con estudiantes del tercer semestre del Programa de Trabajo Social de la Universidad del Valle.