Second Language Practice: Classroom Strategies for Developing Communicative Competence

Author:   Georges Duquette
Publisher:   Channel View Publications Ltd
ISBN:  

9781853593055


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   22 September 1995
Format:   Paperback
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Second Language Practice: Classroom Strategies for Developing Communicative Competence


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Over the last twenty five years, many theorists specialising in second language acquisition have promoted the communicative approach. Their arguments have been very convincing, but many school boards and teachers remain unsure as to how to implement this approach in the classroom; they do not know which specific skills should be developed, at which levels, or what strategies should be used. Since teachers are practical people, they need a publication which offers them ideas on how to develop second language skills in their students at various levels of competence development. We now know enough about the acquisition process that we can provide clear theoretical directions and practical examples of strategies consistent with second language theory. There is more than one way of getting students to develop communicative competence and there is always room for sharpening specific skills and adapting them to a variety of social contexts which are themselves culturally specific. Nevertheless, we do need to get started, and this book attempts to provide some leadership in this direction by bridging current theory with classroom practice while, at the same time, emphasising classroom strategies. Innovative teachers and administrators can then continue the process, add or subtract to the repertoire of strategies, in accordance with their student and programme needs.

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Author:   Georges Duquette
Publisher:   Channel View Publications Ltd
Imprint:   Multilingual Matters
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.236kg
ISBN:  

9781853593055


ISBN 10:   1853593052
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   22 September 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Georges Duquette (Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo) is Associate Professor at the School of Education, Laurentian University. He has taught English and French both as a first and second language at the elementary and secondary school levels and later, classroom methodology and second language university courses. His publications on bilingual and minority language education have appeared in journals in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. He is, with Lilliam Malave, co-editor of Language, Culture and Cognition (Multilingual Matters, 1991) and author of Methodes et strategies pour l'enseignement au secondaire (Les editions Soleil Publications, 1992).

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