Target Language, Collaborative Learning and Autonomy

✍ Scribed by Ernesto Macaro

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Series: Modern Language in Practice; 5
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the relevance that second language research has for the secondary foreign language classroom. It analyses the concept of teaching and learning exclusively through the target language. This concept is then related to two current pedagogical tendencies: peer collaboration and learner autonomy.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Introduction
1 A National Curriculum or a Framework for Methodology?
2 Interpretations of Communicative Language Teaching
3 The Teacher as Input
4 The Pupil as Learner
5 Collaborative Learning
6 Learner Autonomy
7 Is a National Methodology Desirable?
Appendix
References
Index