Breaking Tradition: An Exploration of the Historical Relationship Between Theory and Practice in Second Language Teaching - Couverture souple

Musumeci, Diane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0070443947 ISBN 13 : 9780070443945

Editeur : McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1997

Synopsis

Serving as a useful supplement to various language methods course, this book analyzes the debate between grammar-based approaches to language teaching and more communicative schools of thought. Adopting a historical framework, it provides different perspectives on the contemporary debate about approaches to language teaching.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Diane Musumeci is Associate Professor of Italian and SLATE (Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is Head of the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. She received her Ph.D. in Italian linguistics with a Certificate of Advanced Study in SLATE from the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign in 1989. For sixteen years she was the Director of the Italian language program. She conducts research in content-based instruction and classroom language acquisition. She teaches a wide range of courses from Italian language and linguistics to doctoral seminars on the history of second language teaching. She has published numerous articles and chapters in books and is the author of Il carciofo: Strategie di lettura e proposte d'attivita (McGraw-Hill, 1990) and Breaking Tradition: An Exploration of the Historical Relationship Between Theory and Practice in Second Language Teaching (McGraw-Hill, 1997).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGraw Hill Higher Education
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0070443947
• ISBN 13: 9780070443945
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible