Learning Languages, Learning Life Skills - Autobiographical reflexive approach to teaching and learning a foreign language (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)

Learning Languages, Learning Life Skills offers an autobiographical reflexive approach to foreign language education. The orientation of the book is practical, containing rich descriptions of language learning situations including authentic language use and student stories. Teaching, including planning, methods, classroom work and evaluation, and case studies of good language learning and how dialogue based on reminiscing can be used to promote students' well-being in the language classroom are described in detail. Many practical examples of how to develop autobiographical reflexive approach, based on the phenomenological philosophy, and methodology, are presented. Learning Languages, Learning Life Skills significantly enhances the communicative approach and going beyond it into a new paradigm, whereby foreign language teaching and learning are seen as foreign language education. The book offers unique ways of developing vocational language teaching as an integrated holistic approach combining language contents with vocationally relevant topics and the interactive, dialogical processes of working in language classes. readers, Learning Languages, Learning Life Skills will be of interest to teachers as well as researchers in the areas of applied and educational linguistics.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Educational Linguistics, 8
Release date:	October 2006
First published:	2007
Authors:	Riitta Jaatinen
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	230
Edition:	2007 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-387-37063-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Language teaching theory & methods
LSN:	0-387-37063-3
Barcode:	9780387370637

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