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How can you effectively motivate young people to engage with foreign language learning?
How can young people engage with new ideas and cultural experiences within and outside the classroom?
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, newly qualified teachers (NQTs) and teachers in their early professional development. Offering a wide range of strategies for successful teaching in the languages classroom, this third edition includes separate chapters on the core skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening and new chapters on pronunciation and the science of learning.
The chapters provide detailed examples of theory in practice, based on the most up-to-date research and practice, as well as links to relevant sources supporting evidence-informed practice and cover:
- Strategies for planning engaging lessons
- Integrating formative and summative assessment
- Digital tools and services for teaching and learning
- Helping pupils develop better listening skills
- Effective speaking activities
- The role of scaffolds and models in developing writing skills
- Teaching grammar
- The intercultural dimension of language teaching
- The role of multilingualism in foreign language education
- Engaging with critical pedagogy
A Practical Guide to Teaching Foreign Languages in the Secondary School is an essential compendium of support and ideas for all those embarking upon their first steps in a successful career in teaching foreign languages.
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.
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'Every language teacher needs to have a copy of this on their bookshelf!' Trevor Mutton
'This is an outstanding and comprehensive survey of practical ideas for the teaching of Foreign Languages in secondary school... I thoroughly recommend this guide to both training and well-established teachers who (for whatever reason) may not have come across it!' Helen Myers
