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How can you effectively motivate young people to engage with foreign language learning?
The new and fully revised edition of
A Practical Guide to Teaching Foreign Languages in the Secondary School offers straightforward advice and inspiration for training teachers, NQTs and teachers in their early professional development.
List of contents
SECTION 1: OVERARCHING CONSIDERATIONS
- Foreign language teaching: understanding approaches, making choices
- Nurturing motivation for foreign language learning
- Assessment for learning: exploiting positive backwash on foreign language teaching and learning
- Research-based practice: findings from cognitive science and second language acquisition research
- Digital tools in foreign language teaching and learning; educational applications
SECTION 2: DEVELOPING PEDAGOGICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
- Developing listening skills in a foreign language
- Developing speaking skills in a foreign language
- Developing reading and writing skills in a foreign language
- Teaching grammar as and in context in the foreign languages classroom
SECTION 3: EXPLORING BROADER PERSPECTIVES
- The (inter)cultural dimension in foreign language teaching
- The role of multilingualism in foreign language education
- Critical pedagogy: fostering learner engagement, critical thinking and language learning
- Professional identity: becoming an extended professional
- Teacher inquiry as professional development for foreign language teachers
About the author
Norbert Pachler, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society; Editor-in-Chief: The Language Learning Journal.
Ana Redondo, Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Bedfordshire.
Summary
How can you effectively motivate young people to engage with foreign language learning?The new and fully revised edition of A Practical Guide to Teaching Foreign Languages in the Secondary School offers straightforward advice and inspiration for training teachers, NQTs and teachers in their early professional development.
