Second Language Practice: Classroom Strategies for Developing Communicative Competence

✍ Scribed by Georges Duquette (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 172
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers teachers ideas on how to use the communicative approach to develop second language skills in their students at various levels of competence development. Topics include how to implement this approach in the classroom; which specific skills should be developed, at which levels, and what strategies can be used.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Performance Goals
Acknowledgements
Biographical Notes on the Contributing Authors
LEVEL 1: EARLY STUDENT COMPREHENSION AND RESPONSE
1 Strategies for Beginning Listening Comprehension
2 Increasing Comprehension Skills Through Listening and Asking Questions
3 Teaching the Receptive Skills at the Basic Level
LEVEL 2: CONTEXT-BASED COMPREHENSION AND INTERACTION
4 Developing Comprehension and Interaction Skills with Idiomatic Expressions
5 Strategies for Developing Communicative Competence with Emphasis on Comprehensible Input
LEVEL 3: MEANING-BASED COMMUNICATION AND PROBLEM-SOLVING
6 Integrating Communication and Social Skills Using Ensemble Techniques
7 Communicative Strategies for Intermediate Level Second Language Classes
LEVEL 4: GROUP WORK AND THE COOPERATIVE APPROACH
8 Magic or Chaos: Task-based Group Work
9 One Peer Response Group in an ESL Writing Class: A Case Study
LEVEL 5: REFINING LITERACY SKILLS
10 Correction of Speech Errors: Some Suggestions
11 Collaborative Strategies for Narrative Structure
12 Writing a Short Story Through Sharing and Reflecting
EVALUATION
Oral Communication Assessment and the Portfolio Concept
Index