Check the listing for details. Understanding the Language Classroom (2005, Hardcover). Condition: Brand New. Listed at 84.00 USD. Understanding the Language Classroom (2005, Hardcover) SynopsisThe 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.,This edited volume problematizes prescription, efficiency, and technical solutions as orientations to classroom language learning. Complexity and idiosyncrasy are recognized as central concepts in a move towards centralizing teachers' and learners' understanding of 'classroom life', in various contexts.Product IdentifiersISBN-101403996628ISBN-139781403996626eBay Product ID (ePID)47524535Key DetailsNumber Of Pages275 pagesFormatHardcoverPublication Date2005-11-30LanguageEnglishPublisherPalgrave MacmillanPublication Year2005Additional DetailsNumber of Volumes1 vol.Copyright Date2006IllustratedYesDimensionsWeight18.7 OzHeight0.8 In.Width5.5 In.Length8.5 In.Target AudienceGroupScholarly & ProfessionalClassification MethodLCCN2005-049994LC Classification NumberP51-P59.4P1-1091LC8-Dewey Decimal418/.0071Dewey Edition22ContributorsEdited byInés K. Miller, Simon GieveForeword byKathleen M. BaileyTable Of ContentFigures * Foreword--K.M.Bailey * Acknowledgements * Notes on Contributors * Introduction * Six Promising Directions in Applied Linguistics--D.Allwright * What Do We Mean by 'Quality of Classroom Life'?--S.N.Gieve & I.K. Miller * What Happens Between People: Who We Are and What We Do--A.Holliday * Managing Classroom Life--T.Wright * Who Does What In The 'Management of Language Learning'? Planning and the Social Construction of the 'Motivation to Notice'--D.Woods * Darwin and the Large Class--H.Coleman * Recognising Complexity in Adult Literacy Research and Practice--M.L.Tseng & R.Ivanic * Language Lessons: A Complex, Local Co-Production of all Participants--E.E.Tarone * Take 1, Take 2, Take 3: A Suggested Three-Stage Approach to Exploratory Practice--J.F.Fanselow & R.Barnard * Collegial Development in ELT: The Interface Between Global Processes and Local Understandings--M.P.Breen * Language Teacher Educators in Search of 'Locally Helpful Understandings'--M.A.A.Celani * Teaching and Learning in the Age of 'Reform': The Problem of the Verb--D.Freeman * References * Index,Figures - Foreword; K.M.Bailey - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction - Six Promising Directions in Applied Linguistics; D.Allwright - What Do We Mean By 'Quality of Classroom Life'?; S.N.Gieve & I.K. Miller - What Happens Between People: Who We Are and What We Do; A.Holliday - Managing Classroom Life; T.Wright - Who Does What In The 'Management of Language Learning'? Planning and the Social Construction of the 'Motivation to Notice'; D.Woods - Darwin and the Large Class; H.Coleman - Recognising Complexity in Adult Literacy Research and Practice; M.L.Tseng & R.Ivanic - Language Lessons: A Complex, Local Co-Production of all Participants; E.E.Tarone - Take 1, Take 2, Take 3: A Suggested Three-Stage Approach to Exploratory Practice; J.F.Fanselow & R.Barnard - Collegial Development in ELT: The Interface Between Global Processes and Local Understandings; M.P.Breen - Language Teacher Educators in Search of 'Locally Helpful Understandings'; M.A.A.Celani - Teaching and Learning in the Age of 'Reform': The Problem of the Verb; D.Freeman - References - IndexReviews'Once in a while you come across an edited volume that is hard to put down. Understanding the Language Classroom is one such rare volume...you will soon find yourself wanting to read evermore, for the views expressed in this volume are as diverse as the sixteen individuals that contributed to the wealth of information contained in this well-crafted work...it is an important addition to anyone's list of edited volumes on second languages and the complexity of learning, and I recommend it most highly...' - The Reading Matrix