Developing Professional-Level Language Proficiency (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Leaver, Betty Lou

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive 2002 book examines approaches to teaching students who aim to make the leap from 'advanced' or 'superior' proficiency in a foreign language to 'near-native' ability. While there are copious publications on classroom techniques and methods for lower levels of instruction, virtually nothing exists about this transition, which is vital for those who intend to use foreign languages in high-level international arenas. This book, by leading practitioners in this area of foreign language teaching, aims to fill this gap and assist those developing language programmes at the 'advanced to distinguished' level. * Divided into three parts which provide information on different aspects of teaching at this level - theory of advanced language teaching - nine sample programs - description of highly advanced learners based on long-term experience and empirical research * Presents programs in seven languages - Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, English, French and German * Content is both theoretical and pragmatic

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511030550
• Artikelnr.: 38201083

Autorenporträt

Betty Lou Leaver is Senior Specialist in Curriculum and Faculty Development at the American Councils for International Education and Fellow at the National Foreign Language Center.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Richard Brecht; Part I. Principles, Practices, and Theory: 1.
Principles and practices in teaching superior-level students: not just more
of the same Betty Lou Leaver and Boris Shekhtman; 2. Toward academic-level
foreign language abilities: reconsidering foundational assumptions,
expanding pedagogical options Heidi Byrnes; Part II. Programs: 3. Contexts
for advanced language learning : a report on an immersion institute Heidi
Byrnes; 4. Bridging the gap between language for general purposes and
language for work: an intensive superior-level language/skill course for
teachers, translators, and interpreters Claudia Angelelli and Christian
Degueldre; 5. Learning Chinese in China: programs for developing superior-
to distinguished-level Chinese language proficiency in China and Taiwan
Cornelius C. Kubler; 6. Developing professional-level oral proficiency: the
Shekhtman method of teaching communication Boris Shekhtman and Betty Lou
Leaver with Natalia Lord, Ekaterina Kuznetsova, and Elena Ovtcharenko; 7.
The reading four project: applied technology at the higher levels of
foreign language acquisition Catherine W. Ingold; 8. In the quest for level
4+ in Arabic: training level 2¿3 learners in independent reading Elsaid
Badawi; 9. Teaching high-level writing skills in English at a Danish
University Tim Caudery; 10. Heritage speakers as learners at the superior
level: differences and similarities between Spanish and Russian student
populations Claudia Angelelli and Olga Kagan; 11. Teaching Russian language
teachers in eight Summer institutes in Russian language and culture Zita
Dabars and Olga Kagan; Part III. Learners: 12. Understanding the student at
the superior-distinguished threshold Madeline Ehrman; 13. Achieving
multilingualism: preliminary findings from a study of twenty
distinguished-level language users Betty Lou Leaver and Sabine Atwell.