Classroom-Oriented Research: Achievements and Challenges

By Mirosław Pawlak

Book Overview

Age and the classroom learning of additional languages.- The sociolinguistic parameters of L2 speaking anxiety.- Comparing teachers' and learners' views on grammar instruction and error correction.- Stability and variability in pre-service teachers' beliefs.- The relationship between learning strategies and speaking performance.- Strategic intervention in the foreign language classroom.- On the role of teacher questions in EFL classrooms - analyzing lesson videos.- Teacher interpersonal communication abilities in the classroom with regard to perceived classroom justice and credibility.- Discovering teacher-trainees' understanding of TEFL theories with the use of think-aloud protocols.- Action research and teacher development: MA students' perspective.- Communicating solidarity with the reader - linguistic politeness strategies in EFL methodology textbooks.- Micro- and macro-perspectives on students' attitudes to online classes.- The use of Internet resources to develop autonomy in learning English pronunciation - a qualitative study.- Developing language learners' intercultural competence through CALL.- Intercultural teaching in the Polish context.- Evaluating the use of group work in the foreign language classroom.- Observations - the eyes and ears of the lessons.- Using dynamic assessment to improve L2 learners' knowledge of grammar: Evidence from the tenses.- ESP: Corpus studies and parametric test analysis for teaching purposes.- How to teach CLIL? Some remarks on CLIL methodology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319033158
• ISBN13: 9783319033150
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"