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  • Becoming A Language Teacher: A Practical Guide to Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • Written by author Elaine K Horwitz
  • Published by Allyn & Bacon, Inc., February 2007
  • Becoming a Language Teacher is a comprehensive guide to the knowledge and classroom skills teachers need to meet the needs of all language learners. The book encourages each reader to develop a personal approach to language teaching.A much-neede
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Preface     vii
What Do Language Teachers Think About?     1
What Should I Know about Language Learners and Language Teaching Settings?     3
Types of Language Learning Settings     4
Learner Characteristics     7
Younger Learners and Stages of Cognitive Development     17
What Should I Know about Second Language Acquisition?     23
Theories of Second Language Acquisition     24
The Critical Period Hypothesis     38
How the Theories Differ on Important Language Teaching Issues     38
Implications for Language Teaching     43
What Should I Know about Language Teaching Methodologies?     48
Language Teaching Methods     49
What Is the Best Language Teaching Method?     59
Content-Based, Learner-Centered, and Task-Based Approaches to Language Teaching     60
From Teacher-Centered to Learner-Centered Approaches     61
How Do You Teach a Language?     65
What Should I Know about Teaching Listening?     67
The Importance of Listening Comprehension     69
Obstacles to Teaching Listening Comprehension     69
The Listening Process     73
Some Guidelines for Developing Listening Activities     77
Activity Ideas     79
Assessing Listening Comprehension     86
What Should I Know about Teaching Speaking?     91
The Importance of True Communication in the Language Classroom     92
Obstacles to Teaching Speaking     94
The Development of Speaking Ability     99
Some Guidelines for Developing Speaking Activities     102
Activity Ideas     105
Assessing Speaking     110
What Should I Know about Teaching Reading?     115
The Importance of Reading     116
The Reading Process     116
Types of Second Language Reading     117
Learning to Read in a Second Language     118
Types of Reading Materials     119
Helping Students Develop Effective Reading Strategies     120
ESL Teachers and Content Reading     122
Some Guidelines for Teaching Reading     123
Activity Ideas     125
Assessing Reading Comprehension     130
What Should I Know about Teaching Writing?     135
The Writing Process     136
Types of Second Language Writing     138
Helping Students Develop Effective Writing Strategies     141
Some Guidelines for Teaching Writing      145
Activity Ideas     147
Assessing Writing     151
What Should I Know about Teaching Academic English in Content Classes?     157
The Development of Academic Language     159
Generation 1.5 and Transnational Students     161
Scaffolding, Contextualized Input, and Thematic Units     162
Promoting Second Language Development in Content Classes     163
Academic Literacy     166
Integrating Language Skills Using Thematic Units and Task-Based Activities     170
Some Guidelines for Teaching Language through Content     171
Activity Ideas     172
Assessing Language in Content Classes     174
How Do I Know What to Teach?     181
How Do I Assess Language Learning?     183
Standards     184
Issues in Language Testing     188
Testing Approaches     191
Testing for a Variety of Purposes     193
Testing the Standards     194
The TOEFL and the ACTFL OPI     196
How Do I Plan My Classes?     202
Planning for Your Students     205
Common Language Teaching Activities     210
Where Do I Go from Here?     219
So, Am I Now a Language Teacher?     221
Thinking of Yourself as a Language Teacher     221
Becoming Open to New Ideas about Language and Language Teaching     222
Becoming a Better Language Teacher     223
Your Future as a Language Teacher     227
Beginning Your Journey as a Language Teacher     228
The Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory (BALLI) ESL Version     232
Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS)     235
Teacher Foreign Language Anxiety Scale (TFLAS)     237
Glossary     239
Index     251


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