In Search of Processes of Language Use in Foreign Language Didactics (Hardcover, New edition)

The author addresses key questions of foreign language teaching: How does foreign language learning take place? What is the mechanism of foreign language use and learning? What are the sources of our understanding of these processes? What significance does our understanding have for foreign language teaching? The main argument is that, in order to deal with the complexity of language learning and meet the current demands for foreign language competency, we must employ the framework of an empirical, relatively autonomous discipline of Foreign Language Didactics, constituted as a "normal" science which strives to understand foreign language learning as its subject-matter. This constructivist psycholinguistic conception targets language learning processes in the real world, i.e. as language use in the context of verbal communication, i.e. comprehension and production in speech and writing. The processes are represented as taking place in the learner's cognitive system for information processing in communicative interaction, a universal human phenomenon. This perspective leads to systematic options and strategies for the practical teaching of foreign languages with focus on English as a world language.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Ag
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature, 37
Release date:	December 2014
First published:	2015
Authors:	Maria Dakowska
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	370
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-631-65790-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Language teaching theory & methods Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Promotions
LSN:	3-631-65790-0
Barcode:	9783631657904

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