Stone Bull

By Phyllis A. Whitney

Book Overview

Collaborative Language Learning and Teaching is written for teachers, teacher educators and researchers who are interested in experimenting with alternative ways of organising teaching and learning, and who wish to create an environment in which teachers, learners and researchers can work together and learn from one another. This wide-ranging collection of papers focuses on issues such as: ?The central characteristics of a collaborative approach to classroom research Appropriate theoretical models of language and learning for informing collaborative research ? Appropriate research methods, tools and techniques for collaborative investigations Classroom tasks and patterns of organisation which facilitate cooperative learning Organisational patterns which underlie successful collaborative teaching. The classroom-oriented studies on which the collection is based provide models for readers who wish to experiment with these ideas in their own context.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449236382
• ISBN13: 9780449236383
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not bad...

Although I'm a longtime fan of Whitney's work, this book left me with an unsettling aftertaste. As is the general rule with her novels, it's full of surprise revelations and family intrigue. (For God's sake, how does she come up with these dysfunctional, homicidal clans! A counselor would have a field day with some of her characters!) However, this particular work contains a familial twist that I found, well, icky. (I know "icky" is not a terribly literary term, but if I were the main character, I'd be pretty creeped out by the entire situation.)All the same, it makes for a fairly good read, with buckets of your standard Whitneyesque plot twists. And once all is said and done, the resolution makes a poignant statement about the power of new beginnings.