"How We're Going about It" : Teachers' Voices on Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning Languages. This item is unavailable."How We're Going about It" : Teachers' Voices on Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning Languages

“How we’re going about it” provides a space for teachers’ voices in the nexus between research and practice by outlining specific cases of innovative approaches to language teaching and learning as they have been applied in the classroom. The volume includes descriptions of some of the most representative recent work and practice in the field while at the same time covering a wide geographic scope. The case descriptions help synthesize research and teaching practice in a way that is accessible to busy teachers, teacher trainers or anyone interested in language development. Each chapter focuses on a similar approach taken by teachers and researchers from different countries and while the book contains contributions from some well-known authors, it also includes contributions from lesser-known practitioners who merit recognition of their innovative practices. This book is an important contribution to language teaching and learning for several reasons. It deals with educational innovation at various levels of education (young learners, primary, secondary, tertiary); it deals with perspectives from different areas of Europe and beyond; and it provides examples of grass-roots experiences being carried out by real teachers in real classrooms and is honest about the problems faced when implementing educational changes. It is therefore a book about authentic experiences with both a theoretical and problem-solving base, experiences which in turn make an important contribution to the underlying theories described herein.

Melinda Dooly (Ph.D) is a lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). She is the author of various journal articles and chapters dealing with language teacher training and has co-authored several books on language education. She has been a guest teacher at universities in Europe and the USA and has participated in several international educational projects. Her research interests lie in the area of plurilingualism, language learning and Telecollaboration. Diana Eastment (MA) has lectured in many countries in her capacity as an expert in ICT and she was recently resident guest lecturer at Cambridge University (UK) and Pädagogishe Akademie des Bundes in Wien (Austria). Her books and articles are frequently included as recommended reading in teacher training programmes throughout the world. Her most recent co-authored book The Internet. Resource Books for Teachers (Oxford University Press) was published in 2000.