Collaborative Language Learning and Teaching

Klappentext This book is for anyone interested in experimenting with alternative ways of organising teaching and learning. Zusammenfassung This book is for anyone interested in experimenting with alternative ways of organising teaching and learning. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Focus on Learning: 1. Experimental language learning: second language learning as cooperative learner education Viljo Kohonen; 2. Literacy skills or literate skills? considerations for ESL/EFL learners Shirley Brice Heath; 3. Collaboration: constructing shared understandings in a second language classroom Donald Freeman; 4. Context and cooperation in academic tasks Bernard Mohan and Sondra Marshall Smith; 5. Collaborative writing as a literacy event: implications for ESL instruction Denise E. Murray; Part II. Focus on Teaching: 6. Collaborative language teaching: a co-investigation Nora B. Shannon and Bonnie Meath-Lang; 7. Team teaching: a case study from Japan Peter Sturman; 8. Some reflections on collaborative language teaching Kathleen M. Bailey! Ted Dale and Benjamin Squire; 9. The power of observation: 'make a wish! make a dream! imagine all the possibilities!' Jerry G. Gebhard and Akiko Ueda-Motonaga; 10. A teacher-research group in action Sandra R. Schecter and Rafael Ramirez; 11. Putting a process syllabus into practice Roger Budd and Tony Wright; 12. Toward a collaborative approach to curriculum development: a case study David Nunan; References; Index.

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• Authors: David Nunan
• Assisted by: David Nunan (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.08.1992
• EAN: 9780521416870
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41687-0
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Cambridge Language Teaching Library; Print on demand titles; Cambridge Language Teaching Library; Print on demand titles
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > English; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Linguistics, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Language teaching theory and methods, ELT: teaching theory & methods