Beyond Methods: Macrostrategies for Language Teaching
Published on 18. December 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-300-09573-9 (ISBN)
Description
In this original book, B. Kumaravadivelu presents a macrostrategic framework designed to help both beginning and experienced teachers develop a systematic, coherent, and personal theory of practice. His book provides the tools a teacher needs in order to self-observe, self-analyze, and self-evaluate his or her own teaching acts.
The framework consists of ten macrostrategies based on current theoretical, empirical, and experiential knowledge of second language and foreign language teaching. These strategies enable teachers to evaluate classroom practices and to generate techniques and activities for realizing teaching goals. With checklists, surveys, projects, and reflective tasks to encourage critical thinking, the book is both practical and accessible. Teachers and future teachers, researchers, and teacher educators will find the volume indispensable.
The framework consists of ten macrostrategies based on current theoretical, empirical, and experiential knowledge of second language and foreign language teaching. These strategies enable teachers to evaluate classroom practices and to generate techniques and activities for realizing teaching goals. With checklists, surveys, projects, and reflective tasks to encourage critical thinking, the book is both practical and accessible. Teachers and future teachers, researchers, and teacher educators will find the volume indispensable.
Reviews / Votes
"This timely publication provides the tools a teacher needs in order to self-observe, self-analyze, and self-evaluate his or her own teaching acts."-Educational Book Review"This book challenges teachers to think, and it succeeds. Kumaravadivelu addresses critical theory, sociopolitical issues, the importance of context, cognitive processing, and a host of other important aspects of language teaching."-Rebecca Oxford, University of Maryland
"The subject is timely, and the book succeeds in bringing together scholarship from general education, second/foreign language education, and applied linguistics to create a coherent framework for thinking about and designing language lessons."-Sara Cushing Weigle, Georgia State University
"This is indeed provocative and thought-provoking stuff."-Simon Great, GRETA
"Beyond Methods challengeslanguage teachers to go beyond the details of language acquisition and reflect on the larger issues which encompass their learners lives. Stimulating and provocative, this book is an excellent choice for a text on reflective teaching."-Thomas Scovel, San Francisco State University
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-09573-9 (9780300095739)
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B. Kumaravadivelu
Beyond Methods: Macrostrategies for Language Teaching
E-Book
10/2008
1st Edition
Yale University Press
€87.95
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Person
B. Kumaravadivelu is professor of applied linguistics and TESOL at San Jose State University.