A Guide to Teaching Languages is especially useful for student teachers, newly qualified teachers and their mentors, advisors or tutors. As a framework which departments can adopt or adapt, it offers a starting point for a re-examination of the routine procedures familiar to all language teachers, whether newly trained or experienced members of the profession.
Beginning with an overview, each subsequent chapter then deals with the particular stages in detail: Planning and preparation, Presenting language, Drill and practice, Use and performance, Making sense of language and Assessment. Links between these stages are made explicit and further explained through case studies of activities which appear regularly. Each chapter also considers learner diversity, and a differentiated approach to teaching and learning is implicit throughout.
A Guide to Teaching Languages offers a framework for the process of language teaching as a whole, reducing this highly complex field to its foundations. It aims to bring about more effective language teaching and learning through a greater understanding of the different stages in the process.
