Author: Philip D. SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Toward a Practical Theory of Second-language Instruction
Author: Philip D. SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Toward a Practical Theory of Second-language Instruction
Author: Philip D. Smith (jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Toward a Practical Theory of Second Language Instruction
Author: Philip D. jr SmithToward a practical theory of second-language instruction
Author: Philip D. SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780838426388
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition
Author: Stephen D. KrashenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Research in Education
Author: Toward a Theory of Instruction
Author: Jerome BrunerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674253086
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This country’s most challenging writer on education presents here a distillation, for the general reader, of half a decade’s research and reflection. His theme is dual: how children learn, and how they can best be helped to learn—how they can be brought to the fullest realization of their capacities. Jerome Bruner, Harper’s reports, has “stirred up more excitement than any educator since John Dewey.” His explorations into the nature of intellectual growth and its relation to theories of learning and methods of teaching have had a catalytic effect upon educational theory. In this new volume the subjects dealt with in The Process of Education are pursued further, probed more deeply, given concrete illustration and a broader context. “One is struck by the absence of a theory of instruction as a guide to pedagogy,” Mr. Bruner observes; “in its place there is principally a body of maxims.” The eight essays in this volume, as varied in topic as they are unified in theme, are contributions toward the construction of such a theory. What is needed in that enterprise is, inter alia, “the daring and freshness of hypotheses that do not take for granted as true what has merely become habitual,” and these are amply evidenced here. At the conceptual core of the book is an illuminating examination of how mental growth proceeds, and of the ways in which teaching can profitably adapt itself to that progression and can also help it along. Closely related to this is Mr. Bruner’s “evolutionary instrumentalism,” his conception of instruction as the means of transmitting the tools and skills of a culture, the acquired characteristics that express and amplify man’s powers—especially the crucial symbolic tools of language, number, and logic. Revealing insights are given into the manner in which language functions as an instrument of thought. The theories presented are anchored in practice, in the empirical research from which they derive and in the practical applications to which they can be put. The latter are exemplified incidentally throughout and extensively in detailed descriptions of two courses Mr. Bruner has helped to construct and to teach—an experimental mathematics course and a multifaceted course in social studies. In both, the students’ encounters with the material to be mastered are structured and sequenced in such a way as to work with, and to reinforce, the developmental process. Written with all the style and élan that readers have come to expect of Mr. Bruner, Toward a Theory of Instruction is charged with the provocative suggestions and inquiries of one of the great innovators in the field of education.
An Integrated Theory of Language Teaching and Its Practical Consequences
Author: Hector HammerlyPublisher: Blaine, Wash. ; North Burnaby, B.C. : Second Language Publications
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author: Exploring Language Pedagogy through Second Language Acquisition Research
Author: Rod EllisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135136092
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning postgraduate studies, or taking an introductory MA course as well as advanced undergraduates. Titles in the series are also ideal for language professionals returning to academic study. The books take an innovative 'practice to theory' approach, with a 'back-to-front' structure. This leads the reader from real-world problems and issues, through a discussion of intervention and how to engage with these concerns, before finally relating these practical issues to theoretical foundations. Additional features include a glossary of key terms, and discussion questions. Following the back-to-front approach of the series, the book takes problematic issues in language pedagogy as its starting points. These are then examined in terms of second language acquisition. Each chapter begins with a look at the pedagogical proposals found in teacher guides and then asks ‘Do these proposals accord with what we know about how languages are acquired?’ Pedagogical topics covered include teaching methods, syllabus design, explicit instruction, comprehension versus production-based instruction, task-based instruction, authentic materials, the role of the learners’ first language in the classroom, error correction and catering for individual differences. Including a glossary of key terms and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter, and assuming no prior knowledge of second language acquisition, this is the ideal text for all students studying language teaching methods, language teacher education, English teaching methodology and second language acquisition modules in advanced undergraduate and postgraduate/graduate TESOL and Applied Linguistics courses.