Fluency and Accuracy: Toward Balance in Language Teaching and Learning. Multilingual Matters 73.

Autor/in	Hammerly, Hector
Titel	Fluency and Accuracy: Toward Balance in Language Teaching and Learning. Multilingual Matters 73.
Quelle	(1991), (216 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	1-85359-115-7
Schlagwörter	Classroom Communication; Classroom Techniques; Educational Research; Educational Trends; English (Second Language); Error Analysis (Language); Error Correction; Foreign Countries; Grammar; Higher Education; Interlanguage; Language Fluency; Language Proficiency; Language Research; Language Role; Learning Theories; Mastery Learning; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Second Languages; Standardized Tests; Teaching Methods; Test Results; Theory Practice Relationship; Transfer of Training + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Klassengespräch; Klassenführung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Bildungsentwicklung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Error analysis; Language; Fehleranalyse; Korrektur; Ausland; Grammatik; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Zielsprache; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Sprachforschung; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Second language; Zweitsprache; Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung
Abstract	The book outlines, for second language teachers, how students can be helped to attain both fluency and a high level of accuracy. It explores language learning theory and research and a variety of classroom instruction issues and techniques. The discussion begins with an overview of theories, models, and methods of classroom language learning and teaching. The currently popular "communicative classroom" approach is criticized for its lax attitudes toward linguistic errors, and language teaching "fads" are examined. The second section offers perspectives on language transfer, interlanguage, student errors, surface and deep error correction, and the role of native language in second language instruction. Subsequently, several proposals and suggestions for classroom methodology are offered. These include: an examination of assumptions behind and procedures for a method based on cumulative mastery theory; the distinction between English as a local language and as a "remote" language, and instructional implications; more effective integration of human and material teaching resources; and development of grammars that are more appropriate for teaching than the current theory-oriented grammars. Appended materials include data on the effectiveness of the cumulative mastery method in two colleges, and a plea for further research on second language teaching. Contains 92 references. (MSE)
Anmerkungen	Multilingual Matters Ltd., Bank House, 8a Hill Road, Clevedon, Avon BS21 7HH, England, United Kingdom (paperback: ISBN-1-85359-115-7, U.S. $27; hardcover: ISBN-1-85259-116-5, U.S. $79).
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