Second Language Classrooms

by Craig Chaudron

Overview

This important new book provides a critical overview of recent classroom-centered research and its implications for the teaching and learning of languages. Chaudron synthesizes and evaluates crucial research about the way student and teacher behaviours affect language learning and discusses research methods. Second Language Classrooms will be of vital interest to researchers, language teachers, and curriculum specialists, as well as readers with a general interest in education, linguistics, sociology, or psychology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521339803
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/29/1988
Series:	Cambridge Applied Linguistics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.63(d)

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures; Series editors' preface; Preface; 1. Major issues in second language classroom research; 2. Classroom research methods; 3. Teacher talk in second language classrooms; 4. Learner behavior in second language classrooms; 5. Teacher and student interaction in second language classrooms; 6. Learning outcomes; 7. Directions for research and teaching; References; Index.

Editorial Reviews

'An integrated and coherent treatment of research conducted in second language classes … highly recommended.' Merrill Swain, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education

' … a remarkably comprehensive and wide-ranging survey of the empirical literature.' Rosamond Mitchell and Christopher Brumfir, Centre for Language in Education, University of Southampton

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