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Beyond methods : macrostrategies for language teaching / B. Kumaravadivelu.

By: Series: Yale language seriesNew Haven, Connecticut, USA : Yale University Press, c2003Description: 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780300095739 (pbk)
  • 0300095732 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 418.0071 K96 23 2003
LOC classification:
  • P51 .K88 2003
Contents:
Conceptualizing teaching acts Understanding postmethod pedagogy Maximizing learning opportunities Minimizing perceptual mismatches Facilitating negotiated interaction Promoting learner autonomy Fostering language awareness Activating intuitive heuristics Contextualizing linguistic input Integrating language skills Ensuring social relevance Raising cultural consciousness Monitoring teaching acts
Summary: Publisher's description: In this original book, B. Kumaravadivelu presents a macrostrategic framework designed to help both beginning and experienced teachers develop a systematic, coherent, and personal theory of practice. His book provides the tools a teacher needs in order to self-observe, self-analyze, and self-evaluate his or her own teaching acts. The framework consists of ten macrostrategies based on current theoretical, empirical, and experiential knowledge of second language and foreign language teaching. These strategies enable teachers to evaluate classroom practices and to generate techniques and activities for realizing teaching goals. With checklists, surveys, projects, and reflective tasks to encourage critical thinking, the book is both practical and accessible. Teachers and future teachers, researchers, and teacher educators will find the volume indispensable
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-330) and index.

Conceptualizing teaching acts
Understanding postmethod pedagogy
Maximizing learning opportunities
Minimizing perceptual mismatches
Facilitating negotiated interaction
Promoting learner autonomy
Fostering language awareness
Activating intuitive heuristics
Contextualizing linguistic input
Integrating language skills
Ensuring social relevance
Raising cultural consciousness
Monitoring teaching acts

Publisher's description: In this original book, B. Kumaravadivelu presents a macrostrategic framework designed to help both beginning and experienced teachers develop a systematic, coherent, and personal theory of practice. His book provides the tools a teacher needs in order to self-observe, self-analyze, and self-evaluate his or her own teaching acts. The framework consists of ten macrostrategies based on current theoretical, empirical, and experiential knowledge of second language and foreign language teaching. These strategies enable teachers to evaluate classroom practices and to generate techniques and activities for realizing teaching goals. With checklists, surveys, projects, and reflective tasks to encourage critical thinking, the book is both practical and accessible. Teachers and future teachers, researchers, and teacher educators will find the volume indispensable

College of Education Bachelor of Secondary Education major in English

Text in English

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