Mediating between theory and practice in the context of different learning cultures and languages
By: David Newby
Contributors: European Centre for Modern Languages
Publisher: Council of Europe Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Strasbourg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9789287152701
Subjects: Modern Languages; Study and teaching; Methodology
Other titles: Mediating between theory and practice
Notes: "European Centre for Modern Languages, Graz."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Section 1. Coordinators and guest speakers; title: The interface between theory and practice / David Newbury; title: 'Expert beyond experience' : notes on the appropriate use of theory in practice / H.G. Widdowson; title: The relationship between different languages and their learnability / Peter Bierbaumer; title: The flow between theory and practice : the teacher's point of view / Christien Van Gool; title: How teachers face changes in Latvia / Indra Odina; title: Linking theory and practice in a Slovakian context / Maria Kostelnikova; title: Section 2. Results of the pre-workshop study; title: The teachers' questionnaire; title: The students' questionnaire; title: Language learning and teaching in Austria / Isabel Landsiedler; title: Language learning and teaching in Germany / Brigitte Jostes; title: Language learning and teaching in Latvia / Aina Kackere; title: Language learning and teaching in Finland / Annikki Koskensalo; title: Language learning and teaching in Slovakia / Gabriela Lojová; title: Language learning and teaching in Bulgaria / Antonia Radkova; title: Language learning and teaching in Norway / Renée Waara; title: Language learning and teaching in Malta / Marjes Zammit, Charles Mifsud; title: Section 3. Projects and research; title: Language courses and Self Access Language Learning for adults : a new way of language learning in adult education in Austria / Elisabeth Allgäuer-Hackl; title: Autonomy of the learner and the teacher in French as a foreign language / Bernard André; title: Teachers write about their professional growth / Nida Burneikaite; title: Language learning via CD-ROM : old wine in new bottles / Martin Kaltenbacher; title: Innovation in foreign language teaching based on applications for the European Label for Innovative Projects on Language Teaching and Learning in Austria between 1998 and 2000 / Bernhard Kettemann; title: Johnson's model of foreign language grammar learning applied in Slovak secondary schools / Gabriela Lojová; title: Interdisciplinary cooperation in pre-service English language teacher training programmes / Barbara Mehlmauer-Larcher; title: French for specific purposees : one-size or tailor-made courses? / Christine Noe; title: Two INSET projects : Spanish as a second language and English as a foreign language / Fernando Trujillo Sáez