| Description |
1 online resource (298 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; 1 Six Promising Directions in Applied Linguistics; 2 What Do We Mean by 'Quality of Classroom Life'?; 3 What Happens between People: Who We Are and What We Do; 4 Managing Classroom Life; 5 Who Does What in the 'Management of Language Learning'? Planning and the Social Construction of the 'Motivation to Notice'; 6 Darwin and the Large Class; 7 Recognizing Complexity in Adult Literacy Research and Practice; 8 Language Lessons: A Complex, Local Co-Production of All Participants |
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9 Take 1, Take 2, Take 3: A Suggested Three-Stage Approach to Exploratory Practice10 Collegial Development in ELT: The Interface between Global Processes and Local Understandings; 11 Language Teacher Educators in Search of 'Locally Helpful Understandings'; 12 Teaching and Learning in 'The Age of Reform': The Problem of the Verb; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
Problematizes prescription, efficiency, and technical solutions as orientations to classroom language learning. In this book, complexity and idiosyncrasy are recognized as central concepts in a move towards centralizing teachers' and learners' understanding of 'classroom life', in various contexts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Study and teaching.
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ELT: teaching theory & methods.
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Language teaching theory & methods.
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ELT.
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Miller, Ines K
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| ISBN |
9780230523166 |
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0230523161 |
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1280566175 |
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9781280566172 |
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