The Handbook of Language Teaching

The Handbook of Language TeachingCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781444350029 Year: 2011 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK) Pages: 824 Description: 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

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781444350029
Year: 2011
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 824


Description:
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