Teaching Modern Languages

✍ Scribed by Ann Swarbrick

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 194
• Series: Open University
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This reader draws together recent and newly commissioned papers to show the origins of communicative methodology, how it has developed, what its research justification is and how it can most effectively be used in the classroom. The text examines the particular challenges of differentiation, mixed ability teaching and teaching a foreign language to children with special educational needs. The final section discusses ways of renewing creativity in the modern languages classroom through the use of drama, creative writing and role play.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Foreword......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
The historical ball and chain......Page 16
Modern languages: twenty years of change......Page 27
The communicative approach to language teaching: an introduction......Page 42
The communicative approach and authentic texts......Page 52
De l'imparfait du subjonctif aux methodes communicatives: o en est l'enseignement des langues vivantes?......Page 57
Communication: sense and nonsense......Page 63
Mistakes are the mistake......Page 70
Differentiation in the foreign language classroom......Page 78
Autonomy in language learning: some theoretical and practical considerations......Page 90
Extending opportunities: modern foreign languages for pupils with special educational needs......Page 97
Learning, acquiring, remembering and producing language......Page 110
Getting pupils talking......Page 116
Teaching grammar in the target language......Page 125
Why do I have to get it right anyway?......Page 130
Raising reading attainment in modern languages......Page 134
A la recherche du stylo perdu......Page 150
Drama techniques in language teaching......Page 160
Approche communicative: un second souffle?......Page 169
Role activities in the foreign language classroom......Page 176
Acknowledgements......Page 189
Notes on sources......Page 191
Index......Page 192