Productive Foreign Language Skills for an Intercultural World
Subtitle: A Guide  for Teachers
Publisher: Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9783631648797
Subjects: Intercultural communication; Communicative competence; Language and languages, study and teaching; Language and culture
Description: The past two decades have created quantitatively higher and qualitatively different demands for foreign language skills. Learners' needs, expectations and contexts of language use have undergone radical and far-reaching transformations. This collection of essays by experienced educators, teacher trainers and researchers from diverse linguistic, cultural and professional settings offers a fresh perspective on the aspects and ways of teaching skills which are crucial to contemporary language instruction, especially at the more advanced stages, but which have oftentimes been unjustly neglected in the classroom. The book discusses issues ranging from approaches to teaching, contexts of instruction, testing and assessment to curriculum development and technology in the classroom.