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Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching : A description and analysis / Jack C. Richards and Theodore S. Rodgers.

By: Richards, Jack C. (Croft), 1943-.
Contributor(s): Rodgers, Theodore S. (Theodore Stephen), 1934-.
Series: Cambridge Language Teaching Library. Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986Edition: 1st ed.Description: viii, 171 p. ; cov. ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0521312558 (pbk).Subject(s): Language and languages -- Study and teachingOnline resources: Publisher's Website.
Contents:
"An extensively revised and updated edition of this popular and accessible text.
Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching Third edition is an extensive revision of this highly successful book. As in previous editions, both major and alternative approaches and methods are surveyed, with the section on current communicative approaches updated to include new material on CLIL, text and genre-based teaching. The book seeks not only to clarify the assumptions behind these approaches, and their similarities and differences, but also to help teachers explore their own beliefs and practices in language teaching. Further new material deals with other directions in language teaching, such as outcomes-based initiatives, to make this edition fully up-to-date." (Publisher's Website)
CONTENTS
1. A brief history of language teaching
2. The nature of approaches and methods in language teaching
3. The Oral Approach and Situational Language Teaching
4. The Audiolingual Method
5. Communicative Language Teaching
6. Total Physical Response
7. The Silent Way
8. Community Language Learning
9. The Natural Approach
10. Suggestopedia
11. Comparing and evaluating methods: some suggestions
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Includes bibliographies and index.

"An extensively revised and updated edition of this popular and accessible text.

Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching Third edition is an extensive revision of this highly successful book. As in previous editions, both major and alternative approaches and methods are surveyed, with the section on current communicative approaches updated to include new material on CLIL, text and genre-based teaching. The book seeks not only to clarify the assumptions behind these approaches, and their similarities and differences, but also to help teachers explore their own beliefs and practices in language teaching. Further new material deals with other directions in language teaching, such as outcomes-based initiatives, to make this edition fully up-to-date." (Publisher's Website)

CONTENTS

1. A brief history of language teaching

2. The nature of approaches and methods in language teaching

3. The Oral Approach and Situational Language Teaching

4. The Audiolingual Method

5. Communicative Language Teaching

6. Total Physical Response

7. The Silent Way

8. Community Language Learning

9. The Natural Approach

10. Suggestopedia

11. Comparing and evaluating methods: some suggestions

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