The Neurolinguistic Approach (NLA) for Learning and Teaching Foreign Languages: Theory and Practice

✍ Scribed by Claude Germain

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 246
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Since its inception in Canada in 1998 as a method for teaching French as a second language in a school setting, the Neurolinguistic Approach to second-language acquisition (NLA) has expanded to several countries and is now also applied to teaching adults. Based on research in the neurosciences, psychology, and sociology, the NLA focuses on providing learners with the conditions necessary to acquire spontaneous communication skills in a classroom setting. By ensuring the independent development of effective communication and implicit competence in the second language, the NLA allows learners to genuinely express themselves in their new language. In this volume, co-developer of the approach Claude Germain outlines the history of the NLA’s development and provides insights into its principles, its teaching and acquisition strategies applied in the classroom, and the results it has achieved. This is an essential book for all second-language teachers, as well as researchers interested in the transmission of second languages.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Note
Abbreviations
Part One: Theoretical Foundations of the NLA
Chapter One
First Lesson
Second Lesson
Third Lesson
Fourth Lesson
Fifth Lesson
Chapter Two
First Principle
Second Principle
Third Principle
Fourth Principle
Fifth Principle
Chapter Three
The “Grammatical Paradox”
Reassessing Language Teaching’s General Reference Models
The NLA and the CEFR’s Action-Oriented Approach
Comparison with Some Other Teaching Approaches
Language Textbooks
Part Two: The NLA in Practice: Frequently Asked Questions
Chapter Four
Acquiring and Teaching Internal Grammar
Vocabulary and Lexicon Ac
Teaching Oral Comprehension and Phonetics
Chapter Five
Learning and Teaching Reading
Teaching External Grammar
Learning and Teaching Writing
The Spoken and the Written
Teaching and Appropriating Culture
Part Three: Implementation of the NLA
Chapter Six
The Canadian Linguistic Context
First Experience Outside Canada
Part Four: Some Outcomes of the NLA
Chapter Seven
Evaluations at the End of a Teaching Unit
Quantitative Evaluation of Learning
Some Testimonials from Learners
The NLA as a Universal Approach
Chapter Eight
Effects of Teaching on Learning
Training Second-language Teachers
Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Bibliography