Author : J. Carr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 2005-11-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 0230501656
The authors examine the continuing poor relationship between boys and the study of foreign languages. Framed by discussion of gender socialization, gendered curriculum practices and cultural narratives about boys and schooling, the core of the book is constructed by boys themselves.
Author : K. Field
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 19,81 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134581041
Issues in Modern Foreign Languages Teaching draws together a range of issues in the teaching of modern foreign languages into one volume that will encourage students and newly qualified teachers to consider and reflect on the issues so that they can make a reasoned and informed judgement about their teaching of MFL. It will be relevant for students and newly qualified teachers at both primary and secondary level and will fill a gap in their knowledge due to time constraints - and an emphasis on standards - on ITT and PGCE courses.
Author : Amanda Barton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 2006-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780826489135
Provides teachers with a range of strategies for motivating pupils of various ages in modern foreign languages. Containing material for primary teachers, as well as teaching tips, lesson ideas, and a directory, this book shows how learning a language can be fun.
Author : Marianne Nikolov
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1847691455
Modern languages are taught to young learners at an increasingly early age, yet few publications focus on what is available to children in different contexts and classrooms. This book represents the state-of-the-art in research on young language learners. Covering a range of languages, contexts and research methods, it provides insights into how young learners progress.
Author : Christine Jernigan
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 1783092807
Family Language Learning is a practical guide designed to support, advise and encourage any parents who are hoping to raise their children bilingually. It is unique in that it focuses on parents who are not native speakers of a foreign language. It gives parents the tools they need to cultivate and nurture their own language skills while giving their children an opportunity to learn another language. The book combines cutting-edge research on language exposure with honest and often humorous stories from personal interviews with families speaking a foreign language at home. By dispelling long-held myths about how language is learned, it provides hope to parents who want to give their children bilingual childhoods, but feel they don't know where to start with learning a foreign language.
Author : Miles Turnbull
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2009-08-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1847697682
This volume offers fresh perspectives on a controversial issue in applied linguistics and language teaching by focusing on the use of the first language in communicative or immersion-type classrooms. It includes new work by both new and established scholars in educational scholarship, second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics, as well as in a variety of languages, countries, and educational contexts. Through its focus at the intersection of theory, practice, curriculum and policy, the book demands a reconceptualization of code-switching as something that both proficient and aspiring bilinguals do naturally, and as a practice that is inherently linked with bilingual code-switching.
Author : Rebecca L. Oxford
Publisher : Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0824819101
Author : Suzanne Graham
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853593796
This book investigates some of the learning processes of students of French and German as they begin language learning at an advanced level, a stage which is frequently problematic. By looking at the learning strategies employed by both successful and less successful language students, the author elucidates some of the key cognitive and affective processes which facilitate advanced level language learning. The implications of this for the classroom are discussed in detail, leading to practical recommendations for learning and teaching strategies. A central theme is the need to teach explicitly the proficient use of learning strategies, and suggestions are made as to how this may be achieved in the language classroom.
Author : Asta Cekaite
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107017645
This collection offers an in-depth study of children's peer talk and its potential impact on children's learning.
Author : Brendan Bartram
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,98 MB
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 1441192883
Drawing on the results of a tri-national comparative survey of secondary pupils' attitudes towards Modern Foreign Language Learning (MFLL), this book illustrates both the importance and nature of learner attitudes and the contribution of comparative education to our understanding of educational issues. Questions considered include: What is the nature of the pupils' attitudes to the educational dimensions of learning French, German and English in each country? To what extent do educational factors influence the pupils' attitudes to learning each language in each country? How similar are the pupils' attitudes to MFLL within and between the three countries? What judgements can be made about the relative significance of educational and socio-cultural influences on pupil attitudes to MFLL in each country?
