Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities - Constructs, Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment

Klappentext "The move to include advanced-level L2 learning and teaching in the study of SLA is not so much one of simple addition as it is one that requires a conceptual shift. The papers in this timely volume reduce the 'risk of (our) creating false certainties' and push us to rethink fundamental constructs in our field in pursuit of educating for advanced foreign language capacities."—Diane Larsen-Freeman, professor of education and of linguistics and director, English Language Institute, University of Michigan Zusammenfassung Presents both general and theoretical insights and language-specific considerations in college classrooms spanning a range of languages! from the commonly taught languages of English! French! and German to the less commonly taught Farsi! Korean! Norwegian! and Russian. This title highlights a cognitive-semantic approach.

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• Authors: Heidi Byrnes, Heidi (EDT)/ Weger-Guntharp Byrnes, Heidi Weger Byrnes, Heather Weger-Guntharp
• Assisted by: Heidi Byrnes (Editor), Katherine Sprang (Editor), Katherine A. Sprang (Editor), Heather D. Weger (Editor), Heather Weger-Guntharp (Editor), Heather D. Weger-Guntharp (Editor)
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2006
• EAN: 9781589011182
• ISBN: 978-1-58901-118-2
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 152 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Georgetown University Round Ta; Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology