To Advanced Proficiency and Beyond: Theory and Methods for Developing Superior Second Language Ability

✍ Scribed by Tony Brown, Jennifer Bown

• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

To Advanced Proficiency and Beyond: Theory and Methods for Developing Superior Second Language Ability addresses an important issue in Second Language Acquisition―how to help learners progress from Intermediate and Advanced proficiency to Superior and beyond. Due to the pressures of globalization, American society encounters an ever-increasing demand for speakers with advanced language abilities. This volume makes available cutting edge research on working memory and cognition and empirical studies of effective teaching. In addition it can serve as a practical handbook for seasoned and pre-professional instructors alike. The bringing together of the latest in second language acquisition theory, decades of empirical research, and practical classroom application makes for an unprecedented volume examining the achievement of Superior-level foreign language proficiency.

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;Преподавание английского языка / Teaching English as a Foreign Language;