Main description:
This volume focusses on priorities for research in language pedagogy. The aim is to give an up-to-date overview of current thinking about important research issues such as the viability of large scale comparisons, the quantitative/qualitative research controversy, new trends in language testing and evaluation, and the role of different learning environments. In their discussions of these issues researchers from the US and from different countries in Europe show to what extent the priorities differ on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Table of contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- I. Priorities in the US and in Europe
- Foreign Language Instruction and second Language Acquisition Research in the United States
- Empirical Foreign Language Reaserch in Europe
- Measurement and Research Design
- Focus on Form
- Pros, Cons, and Limits to Quantitative Approaches in Foreign Language Acquisition Research
- Ask A Stupid Question'
- Item Response Theory and Reduced Redundancy Techniques
- II. Teaching Environments
- Introduction to the Section on Teaching Environments
- Research on Language Teaching Methodologies
- Problems in Defining Instructional Methodologies
- Evaluation of Foreign Language Teaching Projects and Programmes
- The Characterization of Teaching and Learning Environments
- III. Learning Environments
- Introduction to the Section Learning Environments
- Some Ins and Outs of Foreign Language Classroom Research
- Linguistic Theory and Foreign Language Learning Environments
- Culture in Language Learning
- Implications of Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Research and Practice in Foreign Language Learning
This volume focusses on priorities for research in language pedagogy. The aim is to give an up-to-date overview of current thinking about important research issues such as the viability of large scale comparisons, the quantitative/qualitative research controversy, new trends in language testing and evaluation, and the role of different learning environments. In their discussions of these issues researchers from the US and from different countries in Europe show to what extent the priorities differ on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Table of contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- I. Priorities in the US and in Europe
- Foreign Language Instruction and second Language Acquisition Research in the United States
- Empirical Foreign Language Reaserch in Europe
- Measurement and Research Design
- Focus on Form
- Pros, Cons, and Limits to Quantitative Approaches in Foreign Language Acquisition Research
- Ask A Stupid Question'
- Item Response Theory and Reduced Redundancy Techniques
- II. Teaching Environments
- Introduction to the Section on Teaching Environments
- Research on Language Teaching Methodologies
- Problems in Defining Instructional Methodologies
- Evaluation of Foreign Language Teaching Projects and Programmes
- The Characterization of Teaching and Learning Environments
- III. Learning Environments
- Introduction to the Section Learning Environments
- Some Ins and Outs of Foreign Language Classroom Research
- Linguistic Theory and Foreign Language Learning Environments
- Culture in Language Learning
- Implications of Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Research and Practice in Foreign Language Learning