Diane Larsen-Freeman is a distinguished scholar in education and linguistics, renowned for her extensive work on second language acquisition. Her research meticulously examines the complexities of English grammar and explores innovative language teaching methodologies. With decades of experience as a teacher educator, she bridges theory and practice, offering profound insights into the learning process. Larsen-Freeman's contributions have profoundly influenced how we understand and approach the teaching and learning of new languages.
Through clear and comprehensive grammar explanations, extensive practice exercises, and lively communicative activities, Grammar Dimensions provides students with the language skills they need to communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately.
Through comprehensive grammar explanations, practice exercises, and lively communicative activities, this title provides students with the language skills they need to communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately.
Focusing on complexity theory, this book explores its relevance to various aspects of applied linguistics, such as first and second language acquisition, teaching methodologies, and discourse analysis. It highlights how these theoretical concepts can be effectively applied to enhance understanding and practice in the field of linguistics.
In this highly acclaimed revision, grammatical descriptions and teaching suggestions are organized into sections dealing with Form, Meaning, and Use. THE GRAMMAR BOOK, Second Edition helps teachers and future teachers grasp the linguistic system and details of English grammar, providing more information on how structures are used at the discourse level.
Through clear and comprehensive grammar explanations, extensive practice exercises, and lively communicative activities, Grammar dimensions provides students with the language skills they need to communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately
Focusing on the dynamic nature of language, this book challenges traditional views of grammar by promoting "grammaring," which emphasizes the creative and contextual use of grammar structures. Diane Larsen-Freeman blends personal insights with diverse perspectives to help language teaching professionals move beyond rigid rules. Readers gain a deeper understanding of language acquisition and practical tools for effective teaching, fostering a more organic approach to language education rather than relying solely on static definitions.
A detailed framework for leaders to move past outdated workplace blame and shame strategies to cultivate resilient teams capable of facing adversity and setbacks confidently.Workplace finger-pointing stifles creativity, reduces productivity, and limits psychological safety. Although no one sets out to be judgmental, learning new habits is hard. Two experienced leadership and agilists coaches share a road-tested leadership model that continuously embraces humility and failure as part of the growth process to deliver results.By facilitating blame-free retrospective meetings, leaders chart a productive path forward. They amplify three essential motivators of purpose, autonomy, and co-intelligence within their team. Layered on with four resilience factors: inclusive collaboration, transparent power dynamics, collaborative learning, and embracing conflict. After applying these strategies, learning leaders will help their teams and themselves become more resilient and better equipped to handle any unexpected and challenging tasks that comes their way.
Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching has influenced the way thousands of teachers have taught English. This classic guide to developing the way you teach has been an essential resource to new and experienced teachers worldwide, and is now in its third edition. Each chapter focuses on a different teaching approach, describing it being used in the classroom, analyzing what happened, and helping you think how you could apply it to your own teaching. New features of the third edition include: a new discussion on the political dimensions of language teaching, a new digital technology chapter, and extended coverage of content-based and task-based approaches. On this site you will find additional resources, including author videos in which Diane Larsen-Freeman and Marti Anderson talk about the background to the book and new innovations in language teaching which are discussed in the third edition
Updated and revised, Grammar Dimensions, Platinum Edition makes teaching grammar easy and effective. Fully annotated Teacher's Editions, well-integrated components, simplified grammar explanations, and new technology resources help both beginning and experienced teachers give their students the skills they need to communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately.
