Description
In preparing and teaching second language courses, language professionals frequently make decisions in response to learner needs: in choosing textbooks, altering a sequence of exercises from a textbook, creating classroom materials, and so on. Yalden puts these kinds of decisions into perspective, outlining theoretical issues relevant to language teachers today.
Set against this theoretical background are practical suggestions on how teachers can devise classroom procedures and materials that best fit the linguistic and communicative needs of their learners. Emphasis is placed on gathering information from and about the learner. This leads to the establishment of frameworks, short language-learning modules which give support to all of the components needed in a language course.
ISBN:9780521312219
