Research informing practice-practice informing research : innovative teaching methologies for world language teachers

"Research Informing Practice--Practice Informing Research: Innovative Teaching Methodologies for World Language Educators" is an edited volume that focuses on innovative, nontraditional methods of teaching and learning world languages. Using teacher-research projects, each author in the vo...

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Other Authors Schwarzer, David (Editor), Petrón, Mary (Editor), Luke, Christopher L. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2011]
Subjects
Language and languages > Study and teaching > Methodology.
Second language acquisition > Methodology.
Education > Teaching > General.
Teaching skills and techniques.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806616473
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-392-5
Physical Description1 online resource (xxii, 214 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Judith L. Shrum
  • Introduction / David Schwarzer, Mary Petrón, and Christopher Luke
  • Section I. Extending the world language classroom beyond its walls: Global/glocal competencies
  • Chapter 1. Innovations in assessment: Portfolio assessment in the novice language classroom / Melanie Bloom
  • Chapter 2. Using children's literature in the college-level world language classroom / Maripaz García
  • Chapter 3. Crossing the digital divide: Language learning in virtual environments / Christopher Luke
  • Chapter 4. Extending a hebrew class beyond the classroom: A problem-based learning approach / Taly Schwarzer
  • Section II. Translingual and transcultural views of language learning
  • Chapter 5. Shared reading in the hoikuen: Applying whole language theory and practice to world language learning in Japanese nursery schools / Daniel E. Ferguson
  • Chapter 6. Practice informing theory: A retrospective approach / Mary Petrón
  • Chapter 7. Inventing a whole language world language learning community / David Schwarzer
  • Section III. From foreign language teacher to world-minded language educator
  • Chapter 8. Engaged scholarship: Implications for the foreign language classroom / Clarena Larrotta
  • Chapter 9. From linguistic imperialism to linguistic conscientización: Learning from heritage language speakers / Howard L. Smith, Patricia Sánchez, Lucila D. Ek, and Margarita Machado-Casas. Conclusion / David Schwarzer, Mary Petrón, and Christopher Luke
  • About the authors.

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