The literacy approach to teaching foreign languages. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ana Halbach.
• Authors: Halbach, Ana
• Contents: 1. Communicating to Learn: Giving Language Teaching a Content of Its Own.Why Literacy Development?.What Does Literacy Development Offer to Foreign Language Teaching?.Outlook.References.2. The Literacy Approach.Planning.Backward Design.Students' Final Production: Text Types and Modes.The Teaching Points.The Learning Path.The Planning Grid.Outlook.References.3. Designing the Learning Path: The Reception Phase.Starting with the Text.Leading Students into the Text.Understanding and Enjoying the Text.Looking at How the Text Means.Putting on the Writers' Glasses: Observing the Text.Working on the Language: Analysing the Text.Organizing the Learning Path with the Help of the Planning Grid.Outlook.References.4. Designing the Learning Path: The Production Phase.Ready for Production.Giving Students the Opportunity to Focus.What Guided Production Looks Like.Time for Free Production.Guiding Students Through the Free Production Stage.Assessing Students' Production.Outlook.References.5. A Literacy Unit in Primary Education.Becoming Clear About What We Want to Teach.From What I Know to What I Could Not Do Alone—The Learning Path.Outlook.References.6. Integrating a Literacy Approach Into an Existing Curriculum.But I Have a Curriculum to Follow....A Whole School Approach to Literacy Development.Developing an English Curriculum That Feeds into the Content Subjects.Language Teaching as Part of Students' Academic Development.Outlook.References.7. Teachers and the Literacy Approach.Just Take Any Step, Whether Small or Large ….Training the Teachers.Why Literacy, Why Now?.References.Appendix A: Tasks for the Reception Phase of a Unit Based on We Were Liars by E. Lockhart.Appendix B: Checklist of Contents for Year 10 in the Curriculum of Advanced English (Comunidad de Madrid, Spain).
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 372.65; Language and languages -- Study and teaching (Elementary); Language and languages -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030948795
• Related ISBNs: 9783030948788
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