Educating for advanced foreign language capacities
Subtitle: constructs, curriculum, instruction, assessment
By: Heidi Byrnes, Heather Weger-Guntharp, and Katherine A. Sprang, editors.
Contributors: Byrnes, Heidi.; Weger-Guntharp, Heather.; Sprang, Katherine A.
Series: Georgetown University Round Table on languages and linguistics series -- 2005.
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781589011182
Subjects: Language and languages -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Experts in the field lay the groundwork for approaching the increasingly important role of advanced language learning in the larger context of multilingual societies, globalisation, and security.

Advanced language learning has only recently begun to capture the interest and attention of applied linguists and professionals in language education in the United States. In this breakthrough volume, experts in the field lay the groundwork for approaching the increasingly important role of advanced language learning in the larger context of multilingual societies, globalization, and security. This volume presents both general and theoretical insights and language-specific considerations in college classrooms spanning a range of languages, from the commonly taught languages of English, French, and German to the less commonly taught Farsi, Korean, Norwegian, and Russian. Among theoretical frameworks likely to be conducive to imagining and fostering instructed "advancedness" in a second language, this volume highlights a cognitive-semantic approach. The theoretical and data-based findings make clear that advanced learners in particular are characterized by the capacity to make situated choices from across the entire language system, from vocabulary and grammar to discourse features, which suggests the need for a text-oriented, meaning-driven approach to language teaching, learning, and research. -- Description from http://www.booktopia.com.au (July 6, 2012.).
Notes: "This volume comprises a small subset of the presentations that made up the 2005 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT)"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references.