Issues in modern foreign languages teaching / edited by Kit Field. - xix, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Issues in subject teaching series . - Issues in subject teaching. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Changing Place of MFLs in the Curriculum -- Re-examining Communicative Language Teaching -- Why Learn a Foreign Language -- Which Language? - An Embarrassment of Choice -- At What Age Should Foreign Language Learning Begin? -- The Unique Contribution of MFLs to the Curriculum -- Why Teach MFLs to the Lower Ability? -- Modern Foreign Languages and Able Learners -- Ability Setting Versus Mixed Ability -- Why are Girls Better at MFLs than Boys? -- Teaching Grammar in the MFLs Classroom -- How Important is Cultural Awareness? -- Issues in Target Language Teaching . And It All Ended in Tiers -- Technology and the Tools of Communication -- Towards Independent Language Use and Language Learning -- Literature in the Communicative Classroom -- Prestige and Profile of MFLs -- Language Transfer and the MFL classroom. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.

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Languages, Modern--Study and teaching

PB35 / .I85 2000

418.0071