4. Foreign language teaching and educational policy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xix
3. 1. Introduction. Developing foreign language communication: Principles and practices 1
4. I. The nature of foreign language learning
5. 2. What makes a language foreign? 21
6. 3. Multilingualism and foreign language learning 45
7. 4. Foreign language teaching and educational policy 79
8. 5. Learning and teaching multiple languages 109
9. 6. Developing links between second language acquisition research and language teaching 139
10. 7. Language awareness 163
11. II. Perspectives on foreign language learning and teaching
12. 8. The linguistic perspective 193
13. 9. Cultural perspectives on language learning and teaching 219
14. 10. The political perspective 247
15. 11. The cognitive perspective: Age effects and/or critical periods? 279
16. III. The design of foreign language teaching
17. 12. Foreign language syllabus design 309
18. 13. The methodology of foreign language teaching: Methods, approaches, principles 341
19. 14. Autonomous language learning 373
20. 15. Teaching the spoken foreign language 401
21. 16. Teaching the written foreign language 439
22. IV. Approaches to foreign language teaching
23. 17. Principles of approach 467
24. 18. Communicative language teaching 491
25. 19. Language for specific purposes vs. general language 517
26. 20. Content and language integrated learning 545
27. 21. Computer assisted foreign language learning 573
28. V. Evaluation in language learning and teaching
29. 22. Principles of testing and assessment 607
30. 23. Issues in certification 629
31. 24. Evaluation and learning in language programmes 663
32. Backmatter 695