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Understanding the language classroom / edited by Simon Gieve and Inés K. Miller ; with a foreword by Katheen M. Bailey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006Description: xxii, 275 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1403996628
  • 9781403996626
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 418.0071 22
LOC classification:
  • P51 .U542 2006
Contents:
Foreword / Kathleen M. Bailey -- 1. Six promising directions in applied linguistics / Dick Allwright -- 2. What do we mean by 'quality of classroom life'? / Simon Gieve and Ines K. Miller -- 3. What happens between people : who we are and what we do / Adrian Holliday -- 4. Managing classroom life / Tony Wright -- 5. Who does what in the 'management of language learning'? Planning and the social construction of the 'motivation to notice' / Devon Woods -- 6. Darwin and the large class / Hywel Coleman -- 7. Recognizing complexity in adult literacy research and practice / Ming-i Lydia Tseng and Roz Ivanic -- 8. Language lessons : a complex, local co-production of all participants / Elaine E. Tarone -- 9. Take 1, take 2, take 3 : a suggested three-stage approach to exploratory practice / John F. Fanselow and Roger Barnard -- 10. Collegial development in ELT : the interface between global processes and local understandings / Michael P. Breen -- 11. Language teacher educators in search of 'locally helpful understandings' / Maria Antonieta Alba Celani -- 12. Teaching and learning in 'the age of reform' : the problem of the verb / Donald Freeman.
Review: "The starting point for this collection is an original paper by Dick Allwright in which he outlines his view of Six Promising Directions in Applied Linguistics. The other distinguished contributors respond to this discussion with their own interpretations and from their own experience. The contributors are Michael P. Breen, Maria Antonieta Alba Celani, Hywel Coleman, John F. Fanselow and Roger Barnard, Donald Freeman, Simon Gieve and Ines K. Miller, Adrian Holliday, Ming-i Lydia Tseng and Roz Ivanic, Elaine E. Tarone, Tony Wright and Devon Woods. Kathleen Bailey's Foreword sets the scene."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Kathleen M. Bailey -- 1. Six promising directions in applied linguistics / Dick Allwright -- 2. What do we mean by 'quality of classroom life'? / Simon Gieve and Ines K. Miller -- 3. What happens between people : who we are and what we do / Adrian Holliday -- 4. Managing classroom life / Tony Wright -- 5. Who does what in the 'management of language learning'? Planning and the social construction of the 'motivation to notice' / Devon Woods -- 6. Darwin and the large class / Hywel Coleman -- 7. Recognizing complexity in adult literacy research and practice / Ming-i Lydia Tseng and Roz Ivanic -- 8. Language lessons : a complex, local co-production of all participants / Elaine E. Tarone -- 9. Take 1, take 2, take 3 : a suggested three-stage approach to exploratory practice / John F. Fanselow and Roger Barnard -- 10. Collegial development in ELT : the interface between global processes and local understandings / Michael P. Breen -- 11. Language teacher educators in search of 'locally helpful understandings' / Maria Antonieta Alba Celani -- 12. Teaching and learning in 'the age of reform' : the problem of the verb / Donald Freeman.

"The starting point for this collection is an original paper by Dick Allwright in which he outlines his view of Six Promising Directions in Applied Linguistics. The other distinguished contributors respond to this discussion with their own interpretations and from their own experience. The contributors are Michael P. Breen, Maria Antonieta Alba Celani, Hywel Coleman, John F. Fanselow and Roger Barnard, Donald Freeman, Simon Gieve and Ines K. Miller, Adrian Holliday, Ming-i Lydia Tseng and Roz Ivanic, Elaine E. Tarone, Tony Wright and Devon Woods. Kathleen Bailey's Foreword sets the scene."--BOOK JACKET.

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