Teaching Foreign Languages in the Primary School - Softcover

Kirsch, Claudine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826489494 ISBN 13: 9780826489494

Publisher: Continuum, 2008

Synopsis

Teaching Foreign Languages in the Primary School advises modern foreign language trainee and qualified teachers on how to teach MFL successfully at primary level. This book offers full information, including sections on:

*children's ideas about how to learn languages
*the current situation of MFL in the UK, Europe and elsewhere
*research into second language acquisition (e.g. behaviourist, cognitive and sociocultural perspectives)
*different approaches to teaching foreign languages (e.g. audio lingualism, communicative language teaching, task-based instruction)
*the use of games, songs and stories
*ways of developing speaking, listening, reading and writing skills
*ways of developing intercultural understanding, knowledge about language and language learning strategies
*assessment, continuity with secondary school, and ways of facilitating transition.


Brimming with case studies and tried and tested ideas from a multi lingual language teacher and ITE lecturer, Teaching Foreign Languages in the Primary School shows that language teaching at primary level can be both effective and enjoyable - no matter what language the pupils have as their first, and no matter what level the teacher has reached in their own language learning.

About this title

About the Author

Claudine Kirsch is Lecturer and Modern Foreign Language Coordinator in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826489494
• ISBN 13: 9780826489494
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240