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Informationen zum Autor Michael H. Long is Professor of Second Language Acquisition in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Maryland. Recent publications include The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition , co-edited with Catherine Doughty (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003), Second Language Needs Analysis (2005), and Problems in Second Language Acquisition (2007). Catherine J. Doughty is Senior Research Scientist and Second Language Acquisition Area Director at the Center for the Advanced Study of Language at the University of Maryland, and is an affiliate Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Maryland. She is co-editor (with Michael Long) of The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003). Klappentext Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, this Handbook is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference guide to language teaching.* A comprehensive reference work on language teaching, which combines the latest research findings, coverage of core topics, and examples of teaching experience from a variety of languages and settings* Provides a unique breadth of coverage, including: the psycholinguistic underpinnings of language learning; social, political, and educational contexts; program design; materials writing and course design; teaching and testing; teacher education; and assessment and evaluation* Offers a balanced evaluation of the major positions and approaches, including examining the increasingly important social and political context of language teaching* Written by an international and interdisciplinary group of authors from a dozen different countries; English is only one of the many languages used as examples throughout the volume Zusammenfassung Bringing together an international team of specialists from the fields of applied linguistics, second language acquisition, linguistics, education, and psychology, The Handbook of Language Teaching is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference guide. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors. Part I Overview. 1 Language Teaching ( M ichael H. L ong ). Part II Social, Political, and Educational Contexts of Language Teaching. 2 The Social and Sociolinguistic Contexts of Language Learning and Teaching ( S andra Lee McKay and Rani R ubdy ). 3 The Politics and Policies of Language and Language Teaching ( R obert Phillipson and T ove Skutnabb-Kangas ). 4 History of Language Teaching ( Diane Musumeci ). Part III Psycholinguistic Underpinnings of Language Learning. 5 The Language-Learning Brain ( Alan Beretta ). 6 Sequences and Processes in Language Learning ( Lourdes Ortega ). 7 The Importance of Cross-Linguistic Similarity in Foreign Language Learning ( Hakan Ringbom and Scott Jarvis ). 8 Cognitive-Psychological Processes in Second Language Learning ( Robert M. DeKeyser ). 9 Optimizing the Input: Frequency and Sampling in Usage-Based and Form-Focused Learning ( Nick C. Ellis ). Part IV Program Design. 10 Bilingual and Immersion Programs ( J im C ummins ). 11 Heritage Language Programs ( Silvina Montrul ). 12 Specific Purpose Programs ( Ken Hyland ). 13 Study Abroad Research: Findings, Implications, and Future Directions ( Joseph Collentine ). 14 Less Commonly Taught Languages: Issues in Learning and Teaching ( Kira gor and Karen Vatz ). 15 Third Language Acquisition Theory and Practice ( William P. Rivers and Ewa M . Golonka ). Part V Course Design and Materials Writing. 16 Foreign and Second Language Needs Analysis ( J ames Dean Brown ). 17 Syllabus Design ( Peter R...
