MAKING COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING HAPPEN

Overview

Main description

Praised for its fresh and informed discussion of language instruction and language acquisition, the first edition of Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen was recognized by the Modern Language Association as one of the twenty most influential methods textbooks. The authors are both internationally recognized scholars in the field of second language acquisition research and have also written numerous successful language textbooks. The guiding principle of Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen is the premise that communication is the expression, interpretation, and negotiation of meaning, and not simply oral expression. Following that framework, Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen helps instructors develop communicative classroom environments that blend listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Table of contents

Chapter 1 From Atlas and Audiolingualism to AcquisitionChapter 2 Working with InputChapter 3 Communicating in the ClassroomChapter 4 Building Toward a Proficiency GoalChapter 5 Suggestions for Using Information-Exchange Tasks for Oral TestingChapter 6 Issues in Learning and Teaching GrammarChapter 7 Processing Instruction and Structured InputChapter 8 Structured Output: A Focus on Form in Language ProductionChapter 9 Suggestions for Testing GrammarChapter 10 Listening ComprehensionChapter 11 Comprehending Written LanguageChapter 12 Writing and Composing in a Second LanguageChapter 13 Issues in Testing Comprehension and in Evaluating Writing