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This cutting-edge sourcebook for teachers provides a comprehensive vision of effective second language teaching and explores ways to create meaningful interaction leading to emergent participatory language teaching. The fourth edition of "Making It Happen"presents a cyclic approach to theory and practice, in which theory and practice constantly inform each other.Features Strategies for teaching children, adolescents, and adults from beginning to advanced levels Am emphasis on peer- and self-evaluation in simulated and real classrooms A practical reservoir for teachers as they develop their own methodologies and local practice Discussions of issues critical to program development, lesson design, materials selection, video use, teacher research, and professional development (including SIOP) Case studies from kindergarten through university level to stimulate professional dialog New to This Edition Separate chapters on implicit/explicit teaching and on sociocultural/cognitive synthesis Sections on form-focus strategies, World Englishes, research directions, corpus analysis, dialogical assessment, and the Acoma heritage language program Updated research that reflects influential thinking for the 21st century Also by Patricia A. Richard-Amata (with Marguerite Ann Snow): "Academic Success for English Language Learners: Strategies for K-12 Mainstream Teachers"
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Making It Happen, Patricia A. Richard Amato
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- Released
- 2009
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- Title
- Making It Happen
- Subtitle
- From Interactive to Participatory Language Teaching: Evolving Theory and Practice - Fourth Edition
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Patricia A. Richard Amato
- Publisher
- Pearson Education ESL
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 624
- ISBN10
- 013236137X
- ISBN13
- 9780132361378
- Series
- Description
- This cutting-edge sourcebook for teachers provides a comprehensive vision of effective second language teaching and explores ways to create meaningful interaction leading to emergent participatory language teaching. The fourth edition of "Making It Happen"presents a cyclic approach to theory and practice, in which theory and practice constantly inform each other.Features Strategies for teaching children, adolescents, and adults from beginning to advanced levels Am emphasis on peer- and self-evaluation in simulated and real classrooms A practical reservoir for teachers as they develop their own methodologies and local practice Discussions of issues critical to program development, lesson design, materials selection, video use, teacher research, and professional development (including SIOP) Case studies from kindergarten through university level to stimulate professional dialog New to This Edition Separate chapters on implicit/explicit teaching and on sociocultural/cognitive synthesis Sections on form-focus strategies, World Englishes, research directions, corpus analysis, dialogical assessment, and the Acoma heritage language program Updated research that reflects influential thinking for the 21st century Also by Patricia A. Richard-Amata (with Marguerite Ann Snow): "Academic Success for English Language Learners: Strategies for K-12 Mainstream Teachers"