商品簡介
Language educators, teacher trainers, and researchers from Europe, Australia, Asia, the US, New Zealand, and Iran provide 14 essays on teaching advanced foreign language skills that are applicable for the intercultural world. They address speaking skills, focusing on the use of discourse markers, learner apprehension, and the development of speaking skills in business English courses; communication competence in the workplace, including speaking in intercultural settings and the rise of English as a lingua franca in business university programs; facilitating cultural exchanges by using service learning to develop language skills and online engagement with foreign peers; fostering intercultural competence from the teacher's perspective, including educators' cultural teaching practices, using skills-building activities to prepare students for cultural diversity and tolerance, syllabus design, and pre-service teachers' perceptions of the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages self-assessment tool; and developing writing skills, with discussion of self-assessment, overuse of specific devices, and writing narrative and expository texts. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Michal B. Paradowski is an assistant professor at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw. He also works as a teacher trainer and an ELT consultant for television, and has been an invited speaker at over 70 scientific and language-teaching events in Europe, America, Asia and Africa. His interests include second and third language acquisition research, cross-linguistic influence, corpus linguistics, the effects of formal instruction, and current issues and controversies in foreign language teaching.
