MAKING COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING HAPPENPraised for its fresh and informed discussion of language instruction and language acquisition, the first edition of Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen was recognized by the Modern Language Association as one of the twenty most influential methods textbooks. The authors are both internationally recognized scholars in the field of second language acquisition research and have also written numerous successful language textbooks. The guiding principle of Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen is the premise that communication is the expression, interpretation, and negotiation of meaning, and not simply oral expression. Following that framework, Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen helps instructors develop communicative classroom environments that blend listening, speaking, reading, and writing. |
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KEY TERMS CONCEPTS AND ISSUES | 23 |
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ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines answer binary options CHAPTER 7 Processing classhour classmates communicative drills COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING complete cultural daily routines developing system discourse discussion End with Activity evaluation example explicit information form or structure grammar instruction guidelines information-exchange task input processing inter-rater reliability interaction interview knowledge language learners learners need learning lesson goal lesson-final task lexical items linguistic meaning meaningful mechanical drills negotiation of meaning nonclassroom noncollaborative noun object pronouns oral proficiency Oral Testing paradigms Pause to consider person phase PI group posttest practice present processing instruction produce Proficiency Goal psycholinguistic questions reflexive verbs response role second language acquisition sentences Spanish statements Step structured input activities structured output activities subgoals subjunctive suggest talk tense test section test taker things third-person tion topic traditional types utterance VanPatten and Cadierno verb forms visual vocabulary write