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Format: 1 online resource (513p.)

ISBN: 9783110197778

Series Statement: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] ; 29

Content: Current Trends in the Development and Teaching of the four Language Skills builds connections from theory in the four language skills to instructional practices and comprises twenty-one chapters that are grouped in five sections. The introductory chapter presents a communicative competence framework in order to highlight the key role the four language skills play in language learning and teaching. The next four sections each represent a language skill. Each section begins with a chapter which briefly illustrates advances in the understanding of how each skill is likely to be learned and taught. The following didactically oriented chapters expand this understanding by reviewing exemplary research and presenting innovative activities. The accessible style and practical focus of the volume make it ideal for method courses on teaching the four language skills.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Section I Theoretical perspectives on language -- , learning and teaching -- , Approaches to language learning and teaching: -- , Towards acquiring communicative competence through the four -- , skills -- , Section II Listening -- , Towards acquiring communicative competence through -- , listening -- , Areas of research that influence L2 listening -- , instruction -- , Learning how to listen using learning -- , strategies -- , Academic listening: Marrying top and bottom -- , Teaching listening: Time for a change in -- , methodology -- , Section III Speaking -- , Towards acquiring communicative competence through -- , speaking -- , Areas of research that influence L2 speaking -- , instruction -- , Questions as strategies to encourage speaking in -- , content-and-language-integrated classrooms -- , Turn-taking awareness: Benefits for teaching -- , speaking skills in academic and other contexts -- , Teaching speaking: A text-based syllabus -- , approach -- , Section IV Reading -- , Towards acquiring communicative competence through -- , reading -- , Areas of research that influence L2 reading -- , instruction -- , Developing strategic L2 readersƒ by reading for -- , authentic purposes -- , Finding a path to fluent academic and workplace -- , reading -- , Teaching reading: Individual and social -- , perspectives -- , Section V Writing -- , Towards acquiring communicative competence through -- , writing -- , Areas of research that influence L2 writing -- , instruction -- , Techniques for shaping writing course curricula: -- , Strategies in designing assignments -- , Written in, written out: Who sets the standards for -- , academic writing? -- , Teaching writing: Orienting activities to students -- , goals -- , Backmatter , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 978-3-11-018968-1

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783110197778

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197778

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197778