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Informationen zum Autor Michael H. Long is Professor of Second Language Acquisition in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Maryland. Recent publications include The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition , co-edited with Catherine Doughty (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003), Second Language Needs Analysis (2005), and Problems in Second Language Acquisition (2007). Catherine J. Doughty is Senior Research Scientist and Second Language Acquisition Area Director at the Center for the Advanced Study of Language at the University of Maryland, and is an affiliate Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland. She is co-editor (with Michael Long) of The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003). Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung Bringing together an international team of specialists from the fields of applied linguistics, second language acquisition, linguistics, education, and psychology, The Handbook of Language Teaching is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference guide. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors x Part I Overview 1 1 Language Teaching 3 Michael H. Long Part II Social, Political, and Educational Contexts of Language Teaching 7 2 The Social and Sociolinguistic Contexts of Language Learning and Teaching 9 Sandra Lee McKay and Rani Rubdy 3 The Politics and Policies of Language and Language Teaching 26 Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas 4 History of Language Teaching 42 Diane Musumeci Part III Psycholinguistic Underpinnings of Language Learning 63 5 The Language-Learning Brain 65 Alan Beretta 6 Sequences and Processes in Language Learning 81 Lourdes Ortega 7 The Importance of Cross-Linguistic Similarity in Foreign Language Learning 106 Håkan Ringbom and Scott Jarvis 8 Cognitive-Psychological Processes in Second Language Learning 119 Robert M. DeKeyser 9 Optimizing the Input: Frequency and Sampling in Usage-Based and Form-Focused Learning 139 Nick C. Ellis Part IV Program Design 159 10 Bilingual and Immersion Programs 161 Jim Cummins 11 Heritage Language Programs 182 Silvina Montrul 12 Specific Purpose Programs 201 Ken Hyland 13 Study Abroad Research: Findings, Implications, and Future Directions 218 Joseph Collentine 14 Less Commonly Taught Languages: Issues in Learning and Teaching 234 Kira gor and Karen Vatz 15 Third Language Acquisition Theory and Practice 250 William P. Rivers and Ewa M. Golonka Part V Course Design and Materials Writing 267 16 Foreign and Second Language Needs Analysis 269 James Dean B...
