The Impact of Timing in Pedagogical Interventions: Constructing knowledge in second and foreign languages - Couverture souple

Hondo, Junko

 
9783845423104: The Impact of Timing in Pedagogical Interventions: Constructing knowledge in second and foreign languages
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3845423102 ISBN 13 : 9783845423104
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

How do educators and parents determine when to offer and when to withhold guidance to best support learners? For centuries, this question has been at the heart of a fundamental inquiry for educators and researchers. Seeking to answer this question, this book presents a study of the impact of different timings of pedagogical intervention in second / foreign language education. In a set of comprehensible narratives, the author reviews a wide range of literature including the recent history of language teaching practices, cognitive psychology and neuroscience.The detailed descriptions of the preliminary studies leading to the main study show the process of identifying the problematic features for particular learner demographics, the composition and the selection of language-learning tasks, test material construction among other essential ellements for carrying out an empirical study. The research methods are tightly constrained producing clear outcomes both in qualitative and quantitative inquiries. The book provides original and practical information with illustrative examples for any language educator, researcher, or doctoral student.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

How do educators and parents determine when to offer and when to withhold guidance to best support learners? For centuries, this question has been at the heart of a fundamental inquiry for educators and researchers. Seeking to answer this question, this book presents a study of the impact of different timings of pedagogical intervention in second / foreign language education. In a set of comprehensible narratives, the author reviews a wide range of literature including the recent history of language teaching practices, cognitive psychology and neuroscience.The detailed descriptions of the preliminary studies leading to the main study show the process of identifying the problematic features for particular learner demographics, the composition and the selection of language-learning tasks, test material construction among other essential ellements for carrying out an empirical study. The research methods are tightly constrained producing clear outcomes both in qualitative and quantitative inquiries. The book provides original and practical information with illustrative examples for any language educator, researcher, or doctoral student.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr. Hondo was educated on three continents; Japan, the US and in the UK, obtaining her Ph.D. in Linguistics. Prior to arriving in Philadelphia, US, she worked in Tokyo, London, Brussels and New York as an educator, a journalist and a financial broker. She teaches topics in applied linguistics to masters and doctoral students in the United States.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3845423102
ISBN 13 
9783845423104
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
280
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