Publisher's Synopsis
This cutting-edge sourcebook for teachers provides a comprehensive vision of effective second language teaching and explores ways to create meaningful interaction leading to emergent participatory language teaching. The fourth edition of Making It Happen presents a cyclic approach to theory and practice, in which theory and practice constantly inform each other.
Features
- Strategies for teaching children, adolescents, and adults from beginning to advanced levels
- Am emphasis on peer- and self-evaluation in simulated and real classrooms
- A practical reservoir for teachers as they develop their own methodologies and local practice
- Discussions of issues critical to program development, lesson design, materials selection, video use, teacher research, and professional development (including SIOP)
- Case studies from kindergarten through university level to stimulate professional dialog
New to This Edition
- Separate chapters on implicit/explicit teaching and on sociocultural/cognitive synthesis
- Sections on form-focus strategies, World Englishes, research directions, corpus analysis, dialogical assessment, and the Acoma heritage language program
- Updated research that reflects influential thinking for the 21st century
Also by Patricia A. Richard-Amata (with Marguerite Ann Snow):
Academic Success for English Language Learners: Strategies for K-12 Mainstream Teachers
