Images and Options in the Language Classroom

Fülszöveg

Images and Options in the Language Classroom Recent years have brought exciting experimentál r°esearch into the formádon and use of mentái images, much of which has gone almost unnoticed among language teachers. In Images and Options in the Language Classroom, Earl Stevick explores the implications of this research for the learning and teaching of languages, and shows how an understanding of imagery can aid teachers in identifying and evaluating many of the alternatives that are constantly available for their day-to-day work in the classroom* Using samples from current language textbooks at pre-beginning, beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels, he shows how combinations from 33 generál options can generate both the needed techniques and their variants. This new book thus sets forth a detailed and convincing development of the theme in Stevick's earlier volume, Teaching and Learning Languages, that language teaching should be a matter of informed choice. Stevick invites readers... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Images and Options in the Language Classroom Recent years have brought exciting experimentál r°esearch into the formádon and use of mentái images, much of which has gone almost unnoticed among language teachers. In Images and Options in the Language Classroom, Earl Stevick explores the implications of this research for the learning and teaching of languages, and shows how an understanding of imagery can aid teachers in identifying and evaluating many of the alternatives that are constantly available for their day-to-day work in the classroom* Using samples from current language textbooks at pre-beginning, beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels, he shows how combinations from 33 generál options can generate both the needed techniques and their variants. This new book thus sets forth a detailed and convincing development of the theme in Stevick's earlier volume, Teaching and Learning Languages, that language teaching should be a matter of informed choice. Stevick invites readers - both language teachers and teachers-intraining - to draw on their own past experiences, to relate the content of the book to their own purposéS and feelings as well as to methods and materials per se, to undertake small individual and group projects, and to do their own thinking before they come to the author's ideas. (tThe options presented really renewed me to the task of teaching and put me on a fresh track." -Kathleen Quinby, Language Resources, Greensboro, North Carolina fEarl W. Stevick is one of the most respected contemporary writers on the theory and practice of language teaching. During his career he has taught English as a second language, developed language-teaching materials, and trained and supervised teachers in many languages. Images and Options in the Language Classroom is his seventh book for teachers since 1957, the most recent being Teaching and Learning Languages (1982), Teaching Languages: A Way and Ways (1980), and Memory, Meaning and Method Vissza