Expertise in Second Language Teaching and Learning

✍ Scribed by Keith Johnson

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 271
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Understanding what constitutes expertise in language learning and teaching is important for theoretical reasons related to psycholinguistic, and applied linguistic, inquiry. It also has many significant applications in practice, particularly in relation to the training and practice of language teachers and improvements in students' strategies of learning. In this volume, methodologies for establishing what constitutes expert practice in language teaching and learning are discussed and the contributions address the fields of listening, reading, writing, speaking and communication strategies, looking at common characteristics of the ''expert teacher'' and the ''expert learner.''

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables and Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Part I Expertise in General......Page 22
1 The ‘General’ Study of Expertise......Page 24
Part II Expertise in Language Learning and Use......Page 48
2 The Expert Language Learner: a Review of Good Language Learner Studies and Learner Strategies......Page 50
3 Second Language Listening Expertise......Page 77
4 Reading and Expertise......Page 98
5 Oral Second Language Abilities as Expertise......Page 117
6 Second Language Writing Expertise......Page 141
7 Training Language Learning Expertise......Page 163
Part III Expertise in Language Teaching......Page 178
8 Expertise in Teaching: Perspectives and Issues......Page 180
9 Teacher Cognition in Language Teaching......Page 203
10 Expertise in Teacher Education: Helping Teachers to Learn......Page 223
11 Expertise in Pedagogic Task Design......Page 243
E......Page 268
N......Page 269
S......Page 270
Z......Page 271