Teaching Foreign Languages in the Primary School

Klappentext The definitive textbook for Teaching Foreign Languages in the Primary School shows that language teaching can be both highly effective and immediately enjoyable. The book uses numerous ideas and approaches that are reinforced with activities, methods for developing understanding, assessment techniques, and how to ensure continuity and transition into secondary school. This is the textbook that all primary school language teachers should not be without. > Zusammenfassung Advises modern foreign language trainee and qualified teachers on how to teach MFL at primary level. This book uses numerous ideas and approaches that are reinforced with activities, methods for developing understanding, assessment techniques, and how to ensure continuity and transition into secondary school. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Teaching foreign languages in the primary school: an overview2. Case studies of two successful schools3. Theories of Second Language Acquisition4. Approaches to language teaching5. What children say about learning foreign languages6. Introducing children to foreign languages7. Developing children's listening and speaking skills8. Developing children's reading and writing skills9. Developing knowledge about language10. Developing intercultural competence11. Developing language learning strategies12. Assessment and transition to secondary school

Product details

• Authors: Claudine Kirsch
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2008
• EAN: 9780826489494
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-8949-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Teaching of a specific subject, Primary & middle schools, Educational: Languages other than English, Primary and middle schools, Educational: Modern (non-native or second) languages, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Language Study / General