Teaching Language for Communication and Accuracy

$29.95

SKU: ec9780866473514 Category:

Authors: Raymond C. Clark, Janie L. Duncan
Publisher: Pro Lingua Associates

Teaching Languages is a clear and practical handbook that describes and illustrates 20 techniques and 17 tactics for teaching and learning any spoken language.

The techniques are classroom practices that may take a full 50-minute class. There is typically a beginning (presentation), middle (practice), and end (production) to the full lesson. A sampling of the techniques includes:

    • Rhythmic Rhymes

 

    • Line Ups

 

    • Valuations

 

    • Surveys

 

    • Information Gaps

 

    • Reader’s Theater

 

    • Story Telling

 

    • Role Plays

 

    • Impromptus

 

Tactics usually focus on practice, and often require only a few minutes of class time. Frequently they are used spontaneously, as an error or question occurs in a lesson. They usually focus on a pronunciation, vocabulary, or grammar problem. They include:

    • Stress and Intonation Practice

 

    • Transformation Practice

 

    • Scrambled Sentences

 

    • Spontaneous Pattern Practice

 

    • Chain Practice

 

    • Pictograms

 

Although designed for the teacher in training, experienced teachers will often find a new tool for their “toolbox” – a new way to do something or a format they can use and adapt to create their own material.