12.1156, Books: Language Education
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:59:28 -0400
From: "Sean Hanrahan" <seanrahan at hotmail.com>
Subject: Language Education: Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching
and Learning, Michael Byram, editor
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:59:28 -0400
From: "Sean Hanrahan" <seanrahan at hotmail.com>
Subject: Language Education: Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching
and Learning, Michael Byram, editor
Michael Byram, University of Durham, UK, Editor, ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING
"This encyclopedia is helpful to anyone interested in language...Recommended
for teacher college collections and for academic and public libraries
serving language teacher and educators."
--Library Journal
This authoritative A-Z resource features 160 entries and 35 overview
chapters on contemporary and historical language teaching throughout the
world. The entries, by international specialists, cover teaching in
particular countries and in a range of specific languages. Themes covered
include:
* methods and materials
* assessment and testing
* contexts and concepts
* related disciplines, such as psychology and sociolinguistics.
The encyclopedia also covers the teaching of languages in countries around
the world, and deals with a wide range of specific languages such as
Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic, as well as English, French, German, and
Spanish. Sample chapters include
* acculturation
* adult learners
* American Standards for Foreign Language Learning
* authenticity
* bilingual education
* cognitive code theory
* content-based instruction
* distance learning
* Esperanto
* gender and language learning
* group work
* intensive courses
* natural approach
* non-verbal communication
* proficiency movement
* questioning techniques
* tandem learning
* task-based teaching and testing
* total physical response.
With a thematic contents list and a detailed index, this is an essential
resource for professionals and students.
Routledge: January 2001: 720 pp
HB: 0415120853 $165.00; £99.00
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