Teaching Modern Foreign Languages at Advanced Level

✍ Scribed by Norbert Pachler (Editor)

• Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group)
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 376
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Designed to complement Learning to Teach Modern Foreign Languages in the Secondary School, this book focuses specifically on the skills and processes of teaching MFL at A and A/S level in schools and colleges. The book is divided into three sections: the changing nature of A and A/S level courses; bridging the gap between GCSE and A level; and planning, teaching and assessment. With chapters on learner independence, teaching and learning grammar, planning topics and programmes of work, working with literature, and vocational alternatives, the book will be an essential text for all secondary MFL students and teachers.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 8
List of activities......Page 12
List of contributors......Page 16
Foreword by Trevor McDonald......Page 20
Acknowledgements......Page 21
Prologue: Towards a methodology of modern foreign languages teaching at A/AS level......Page 22
Changing A/AS level courses......Page 26
The relevance of A/AS level courses to post-16 learners......Page 28
The new A/AS level......Page 43
The transition from GCSE to A/AS level: bridging the gap......Page 52
GCSE and A/AS level teaching and learning: similarities and differences......Page 54
Learner independence......Page 81
Teaching and learning culture......Page 97
Teaching and learning grammar......Page 114
Planning, teaching and assessment at A/AS level......Page 138
Planning a programme of work......Page 140
Planning an integrated topic......Page 160
Developing receptive language skills;listening and reading......Page 181
Developing productive language skills;speaking and writing......Page 205
Working with literature......Page 230
Translation in the communicative classroom......Page 251
Assessment......Page 272
Reaching beyond the classroom......Page 303
Vocational alternatives......Page 319
Epilogue: Looking ahead: trends in modern foreign languages in higher education......Page 343