The starting point for this collection is a chapter by Dick Allwright on the language learning and teaching classroom experience entitled Six Promising Directions in Applied Linguistics. The other distinguished contributors respond to this discussion with their own interpretations and from their own experience. The collection problematizes prescription, efficiency, and technical solutions as orientations to classroom language learning. Complexity and idiosyncrasy, on the other hand, are recognized as central concepts in a move towards centralizing teachers' and learners' own understanding of 'classroom life', in the contexts of language learning, adult literacy education and language teacher education.

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Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2005

ISBN

9780230523166

Topic

Education

Subtopic

Teaching Languages

Cover
Contents
List of Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
1 Six Promising Directions in Applied Linguistics
2 What Do We Mean by 'Quality of Classroom Life'?
3 What Happens between People: Who We Are and What We Do
4 Managing Classroom Life
5 Who Does What in the 'Management of Language Learning'? Planning and the Social Construction of the 'Motivation to Notice'
6 Darwin and the Large Class
7 Recognizing Complexity in Adult Literacy Research and Practice
8 Language Lessons: A Complex, Local Co-Production of All Participants
9 Take 1, Take 2, Take 3: A Suggested Three-Stage Approach to Exploratory Practice
10 Collegial Development in ELT: The Interface between Global Processes and Local Understandings
11 Language Teacher Educators in Search of 'Locally Helpful Understandings'
12 Teaching and Learning in 'The Age of Reform': The Problem of the Verb
Author Index
Subject Index