Methodological Developments in Teaching Spanish as a Second and Foreign Language

Buch | Hardcover

335 Seiten

2012 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-3973-0 (ISBN)

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This book on applied linguistics presents new trends and improvements on the teaching of Spanish. It deals with two major scopes in the field of linguistics that have a crucial role in the development of language teaching in general and of the teaching of Spanish in particular: Interaction and Grammar.The topics chosen coincide with the areas in which the communicative approach to language teaching, dominant in European and American language programs since the 1970s and 80s, has been the object of most revision. In its first part, the book appeals both to pragmatics and to discourse analysis to research the specifics of classroom discourse and classroom interaction, as well as the differences between interactions among Spanish native speakers and interactions among non natives, in order to develop methodologies for the effective incorporation of these aspects to the Spanish language classroom, such as tasks to teach interaction or techniques to implement learner-centered interactive class dynamics and cooperative learning.In its second part, this book reviews the pedagogical advantages of language description based on Cognitive Linguistic theory to explain different aspects of Spanish grammar. The main purpose of our contribution is to show how taking different dimensions of construal and perspective in linguistic representations into account helps teachers to elucidate idiosyncratic and subtle contrasts of Spanish structure that other views and approaches cannot clarify on a meaningful base, such as the aspectual opposition between preterits or the modal opposition between indicative and subjunctive, both of high importance for the English speaking student.The work selected for this book, by experts from Columbia University and from several universities in Spain, represents the most current lines of inquiry in this "post-communicative" approach as applied specifically to the teaching of Spanish. This book seeks to be to be a "must-read" for the present and future. It tackles unexplored territory, for journals and applied linguistics collections have mainly addressed these problems in relation to English language and instruction.

Guadalupe Ruiz Fajardo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University, where she teaches Spanish and Discourse Analysis. Her main area of research is the use of mass media in the language classroom. She is the co-author of two advanced-level Spanish textbooks, Abanico (2011) and El Ventilador (2006). She coordinates and teaches methodology and teacher training courses in different institutions, including the annual Methodological Developments in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language workshop, where this book emerged.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.7.2012
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4438-3973-6 / 1443839736
ISBN-13	978-1-4438-3973-0 / 9781443839730
Zustand	Neuware