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Author:   Olga Campbell-Thomson
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2024 ed.
ISBN:  

9783031595622

ISBN 10:   3031595629
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   21 June 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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​Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Building the scientific foundations of an educational methodology for foreign languages.- Chapter 3. The impact of the socio-political structure and social needs on approaches to teaching foreign languages.- Chapter 4. Urgent tasks of an educational methodology for teaching foreign languages.- Chapter 5. Basic methodological contrapositions.- Chapter 6. The general educational value of foreign languages and their place in the school curriculum.- Chapter 7. Educational methodology for modern foreign languages in accordance with the conceptualization of language as a threefold unity of linguistic phenomena.- Chapter 8. The interrelationship between grammar and lexis from a methodological perspective.- Chapter 9.  Phonetics of the French language: Outline of French pronunciation in comparison with Russian pronunciation. Introduction.- Chapter 10. The relationship between the mother tongue and a foreign language.- Chapter 11. A general outlook on teaching foreign languages at school.- Chapter 12. On the proliferation of the knowledge of foreign languages in the USSR and on the status of philological education.

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Olga Campbell-Thomson trained as a language teacher before obtaining her Master’s degrees in Linguistics and Speech Communication in Russia and the USA, and her doctorate from the University of Manchester, UK. Over the past thirty years, her career has encompassed research and teaching in the multilingual and multicultural environments of the USA, Cyprus, Qatar, and the UK. She has an enduring interest in language education and her current research is focused on the history of modern foreign language teaching. She has published several translations of essays of Russian linguist Lev Vladimirovič Ščerba (1880-1944) and has promoted his work on educational methodology for modern foreign languages. Her critical review of Ščerba's writing published in The Curriculum Journal in 2017 received the editors' choice award for innovation, academic rigor, clarity of writing and contribution to knowledge.

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