The Context of Language Teaching /
Jack C. Richards.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.
- xi, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Cambridge Language Teaching Library .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-225) and index.
"The Context of Language Teaching is an important new collection of papers by a distinguished personality in the field. Topics covered include syllabus design, methodology and methods, listening, speaking, vocabulary, and grammar. By clearly presenting and summarizing issues in applied linguistics and by exploring their practical implications, Professor Richards makes the vital connection between theory and practice in language teaching." (Book Cover) CONTENTS: 1. The context of language teaching 2. Method: approach, design, and procedure (with Ted Rodgers) 3. The secret life of methods 4. A nonconstructive approach to error analysis 5. Error analysis, interlanguage, and second language acquisition: a review 6. Communicative needs in second- and foreign-language learning 7. Answers to yes/no questions 8. Speech acts and second-language learning (with Richard W. Schmidt) 9. Cross-cultural aspects of conversational competence (with Mayuri Sukwiwat) 10. The status of grammar in the language curriculum 11. Introducing the progressive 12. Introducing the perfect: an exercise in pedagogic grammar 13. Lexical knowledge and the teaching of vocabulary 14. Listening comprehension: approach, design, and procedure