The 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.

 

Authentic dialogues illustrating on-the-job situations
Focus on cooperative learning
Multiple opportunities for speaking, listening, reading, writing, and critical thinking
Specific problem-solving strategies
Models of successful attitudes and behaviors at work
Учебник будет в первую очередь полезен студентам, изучающим специализированный английский - в сфере розничной торговли.
Вы узнаете терминологию, идиомы, получите общие знания о собственно работе. В этой книге вы также найдёте интересные тематические тексты для чтения, вопросы, проверяющие усвоение прочитанного, упражнения на закрепление усвоенной лексики.

Not another English Book! Indeed, not at all. In this new and exciting text, Dave Hopkins has managed to make the leap from the same old tired textbook filled with the same old tired content, into an important new arena. Smooth Moves is not a text about content, grammar, and language utilization. Smooth Moves is not a "what to teach" textbook, it is an entry into what to do in the classroom, on a daily basis, to facilitate language acquisition.