Effective Learning and Teaching in Modern Languages

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Tailored to meet the needs of teachers, lecturers and tutors of modern languages, this comprehensive guide will help you to improve your understanding of modern languages and will also enhance your practice in the classroom.
Effective Learning and Teaching in Modern Languages offers insights from the latest research into learning and teaching within the discipline, and also outlines innovative teaching techniques, covering all the subjects ...
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Overview

Tailored to meet the needs of teachers, lecturers and tutors of modern languages, this comprehensive guide will help you to improve your understanding of modern languages and will also enhance your practice in the classroom.
Effective Learning and Teaching in Modern Languages offers insights from the latest research into learning and teaching within the discipline, and also outlines innovative teaching techniques, covering all the subjects critical to a lecturer of modern languages, including:
* The demands made of students and staff in modern languages
* The 'four skills' of assessment, grammar, vocabulary and translation
* Technology-enhanced learning
* Residence abroad
* Subdisciplines such as linguistics and business, area, cultural and literary studies
* Professional development Providing both a clear overview of the discipline and a wealth of techniques, practical advice and useful resources, this book will be welcomed by lecturers or tutors new to the profession and experienced lecturers wanting to keep up with the latest developments and improve their students' learning.
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Foreword
Introduction
1 Modern languages as a university discipline 3
2 Who are our students and what do they bring from previous experience? 10
3 Where do our graduates go? : languages and careers 17
4 Who teaches our students? : university teachers and their professional development 23
5 Research into language learning 31
6 Curriculum design 44
7 The four language skills or 'juggling simultaneous constraints' 52
8 Teaching grammar 67
9 Teaching and learning vocabulary 75
10 Assessment in modern languages 80
11 Assessing language skills 90
12 Using the foreign language assistant 102
13 Translating and interpreting 108
14 Institution-wide languages programmes and non-specialist learners 117
15 Residence abroad 126
16 Independent learning 133
17 Distance learning in modern languages 142
18 Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) 148
19 The Internet and computer-mediated communication 153
20 The effective learning of languages in tandem 165
21 Corpora and concordances 173
22 Cultural studies 181
23 Languages and business studies 187
24 Linguistics 192
25 Area studies 201
26 Literary studies 207
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