Title: Methodological developments in teaching Spanish as a second and foreign language /
Authors: Ruiz Fajardo, Guadalupe,; Ruiz Fajardo, Guadalupe,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Spanish language Study and teaching Foreign speakers.; Spanish language Study and teaching Methodology.
Abstract: "This book on applied linguistics presents new trends and improvements on the teaching of Spanish. It deals with two major scopes in the field of linguistics that have a crucial role in the development of language teaching in general and of the teaching of Spanish in particular: interaction and grammar. The topics chosen coincide with the areas in which the communicative approach to language teaching, dominant in European and American language programs since the 1970s and 80s, has been the object of most revision.^
Contents: Classroom discourse and teacher training: one more window / Lourdes Díaz Rodríguez -- Turn-taking in Spanish foreign language conversations / Marta García García -- Tasks for interaction / Guadalupe Ruiz Fajardo -- The pragmatic and affective dimension in teaching Spanish as a second language: a humanistic approach / Francisco Rosales Varo -- The promotion of interaction through group dynamics and cooperative learning / Adolfo Sánchez Cuadrado -- Sounding natural in a foreign language / Jesús Fernández González -- Perspective and meaning in pedagogical descriptions of Spanish as a foreign language / Alejandro Castañeda Castro -- The subjunctive in a single concept: teaching on operational approach to mood selection in Spanish / José Plácido Ruiz Campillo.