Enhancing Beginner-Level Foreign Language Education for Adult Learners - Language Instruction, Intercultural Competence, Technology,

This book is an authoritative text that explores best classroom practices for engaging adult learners in beginner-level foreign language courses.

Built around a diverse range of international research studies and conceptual articles, the book covers four key issues in teaching language to novice students: development of linguistic skills, communicative and intercultural competence, evaluation and assessment, and the use of technology. Each chapter includes teaching insights that are supported by critical research and can be practically applied across languages to enhance instructional strategies and curriculum designs. The text also aims to build intercultural competence, harness technology, and design assessment to stimulate effective learning in formal instructional settings, including colleges, universities, and specialist language schools.

With its broad coverage of language pedagogy at the novice level, this book is a must read for graduate students, scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of language education, second language acquisition, language teaching and learning, and applied linguistics.

Summary

This book is an authoritative text that explores best classroom practices for engaging adult learners in beginner-level foreign language courses.

Product details

• Authors: Ekaterina Nemtchinova
• Assisted by: Ekaterina Nemtchinova (Editor), Nemtchinova Ekaterina (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032422381
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3242238-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Routledge Research in Language Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Computers & Technology, EDUCATION / Evaluation & Assessment, EDUCATION / Bilingual Education, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching skills & techniques, Teaching of a specific subject, Language teaching and learning, Adult education, continuous learning, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Higher education, tertiary education, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Bilingualism and multilingualism, Education: examinations and assessment, Examinations & assessment, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Language Arts