Making It Happen: From Interactive to Participatory Language Teaching: Evolving Theory and Practice

by Richard-Amato, Patricia
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ISBN: 9780132361378
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This cutting-edge sourcebook for teachers provides a comprehensive vision of effective second language teaching and explores ways to create meaningful interaction leading to emergent participatory language teaching. The fourth edition of "Making It Happen"presents a cyclic approach to theory and practice, in which theory and practice constantly inform each other.Features
  • Strategies for teaching children, adolescents, and adults from beginning to advanced levels
  • Am emphasis on peer- and self-evaluation in simulated and real classrooms
  • A practical reservoir for teachers as they develop their own methodologies and local practice
  • Discussions of issues critical to program development, lesson design, materials selection, video use, teacher research, and professional development (including SIOP)
  • Case studies from kindergarten through university level to stimulate professional dialog
New to This Edition
  • Separate chapters on implicit/explicit teaching and on sociocultural/cognitive synthesis
  • Sections on form-focus strategies, World Englishes, research directions, corpus analysis, dialogical assessment, and the Acoma heritage language program
  • Updated research that reflects influential thinking for the 21st century
Also by Patricia A. Richard-Amata (with Marguerite Ann Snow): "Academic Success for English Language Learners: Strategies for K-12 Mainstream Teachers"
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Richard-Amato, Patricia
  • ISBN: 9780132361378
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.10 x 1.20
  • Number Of Pages: 599
  • Publication Year: 2009

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