Japanese Language Teaching: A Communicative Approach

✍ Scribed by Alessandro G. Benati

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Japanese Language Teaching examines the practical aspects of the acquisition of Japanese as a second language, underpinned by current theory and research. Each chapter examines the theory and practice of language teaching, and progresses to a consideration of the practical design of tasks for teaching. The final section applies theory and practice to an empirical case study, drawn from a classroom with Japanese as a second language. With its emphasis on practice underpinned by contemporary theory, this book will be of interest to postgraduates studying second language acquisition and applied linguistics.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Abbreviations......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
PART A: PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS......Page 16
1 Preliminary Considerations......Page 18
2 The Role of Focus on Form......Page 46
PART B: COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING: GRAMMAR AND COMMUNICATIVE TASKS......Page 68
3 Communicative Language Teaching......Page 70
4 The Role and Practice of Grammar Teaching: Designing Communicative Grammar Tasks for Teaching Japanese......Page 91
5 Designing Communicative Tasks in Teaching Japanese......Page 116
PART C: CLASSROOM RESEARCH......Page 144
6 The Experimental Methodology......Page 146
7 A Classroom Experimental Study on the Effects of Processing Instruction in the Acquisition of Japanese......Page 178
Conclusion......Page 199
Appendices......Page 202
References......Page 212
L......Page 222
W......Page 223
N......Page 224
W......Page 225

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Японский язык;