Making It Happen: From Interactive to Participatory Language Teaching -- Evolving Theory and Practice

Making It Happen: From Interactive to Participatory Language Teaching -- Evolving Theory and Practice

This cutting-edge sourcebook for teachers provides a comprehensive vision of effective second/foreign 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.<br /><br />FEATURES<br /><br />* Strategies for teaching children, adolescents, and adults from beginning to advanced levels<br />* An emphasis on peer- and self-evaluation in simulated and real classrooms<br />* A practical reservoir for teachers as they develop their own methodologies and local practice<br />* Discussions of issues critical to program development, lesson design, materials selection, video use, teacher research, and professional development (including SIOP)<br />* Case studies from kindergarten through university level to stimulate professional dialog<br /><br />NEW TO THIS EDITION<br /><br />* Separate chapters on implicit/explicit teaching and on sociocultural/cognitive synthesis<br />* Sections on form-focus strategies, World Englishes, research directions, corpus analysis, dialogical assessment, and the Acoma heritage language program<br />* Updated research that reflects influential thinking for the 21st centuryAlso by Patricia A. Richard-Amato (with Marguerite Ann Snow):Academic Success for English Language Learners: Strategies for K-12 Mainstream Teachers, Pearson Education/Longman, 2005