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Dooly, Melinada & Diana Eastment, eds.
“How we’re going about it”: Teachers’ Voices on Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning Languages,
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.

“How we’re going about it” provides a space for teachers’ voices in the nexus between research and practice by outlining specific cases of innovative approaches to language teaching and learning as they have been applied in the classroom. The volume includes descriptions of some of the most representative recent work and practice in the field while at the same time covering a wide geographic scope. The case descriptions help synthesize research and teaching practice in a way that is accessible to busy teachers, teacher trainers or anyone interested in language development. Each chapter focuses on a similar approach taken by teachers and researchers from different countries and while the book contains contributions from some well-known authors, it also includes contributions from lesser-known practitioners who merit recognition of their innovative practices. This book is an important contribution to language teaching and learning for several reasons. It deals with educational innovation at various levels of education (young learners, primary, secondary, tertiary); it deals with perspectives from different areas of Europe and beyond; and it provides examples of grass- roots experiences being carried out by real teachers in real classrooms and is honest about the problems faced when implementing educational changes. It is therefore a book about authentic experiences with both a theoretical and problem-solving base, experiences which in turn make an important contribution to the underlying theories described herein.

Contents

Part I: Tuning into languages: Multiple languages as a resource

Multiple Language Integration

• Two-way Immersion in Germany: Notes on Teaching and Learning Practice (Melanie Kunkel, Gabriele Budach)
• Learning to Communicate Effectively through Intensive Instruction in French (Joan Netten, Claude Germain)
• Diversity as an Asset: Multiple Language Integration (Andrea Young)
• Recommended Reading: Multiple Language Immersion

Task-Based Language Learning

• Adapting a Task-Based Language Learning Approach to a Spanish for Specific Purposes Course: “Prácticas comunicativas”in the University of Antwerp (Marta Seseña Gomez)
• Task-Based Language Teaching in the Netherlands: Dutch L1 and Dutch L2 (Folkert Kuiken)
• Task-Based Language Learning in Flanders: Opportunities for Second Language Acquisition and Beyond (Koen Van Gorp)
• Recommended Reading: Task-Based Language Learning

Content and Language Integrated Learning

• Conditions for CLIL in Finland: Constructivist Principles, Teacher Autonomy, and a Supportive National Curriculum (David Marsh)
• All Roads Lead to Rome: A CLIL Social Studies Experience (Mercè Barrull Garcia)
• Talking English to Learn Science: A CLIL Experience in Barcelona (Cristina Escobar Urmeneta)
• Along the Continuum – An Exploration of Integrating Language and Content Learning in England (Do Coyle)
• Recommended Reading: Content Language and Integrated Learning

Part II. New teaching and learning paradigms for the 21st century

• Technology Integrated into Language Learning: Introduction
• Lights! Camera! Action! A Video Project for the Web 2.0 Classroom (Nicolas Gromik)
• Engaging Young Learners in Online Intercultural Learning: The MICaLL Project (Melinda Dooly, Carmen Ellermann)
• Getting the Message: Training Language Teachers in the Theoretical and Practical Applications of Forums (Randall Sadler, Betil Eröz)
• Recommended Reading: Technology into Language Learning

Passport to Pluralism – European Language Portfolio

• The European Language Portfolio: Developing Presentation Skills among University Students of German for Business (Jennifer Bruen)
• The Portfolio: Challenges and Experiences in the Portuguese Context (Cristina Avelino, Francine Arroyo)
• The European Language Portfolio in Romania and the EuroIntegrELP
• Project (Liliana Dellevoet, Laura Mures¸an)
• Recommended Reading: European Language Portfolio

Exploring New Horizons –Young Learners and Multiple Intelligences

• Controversies in Teaching English to Young Learners: The Polish Solution (Hanna Komorowska)
• Young Croatian Language Learners (Jelena Mihaljevic Djigunovic)
• Using the Multiple Intelligences Theory to Teach Intelligently:
• Literature, Poetry and Art in an EFL Classroom (Eduarda Melo Cabrita)
• Recommended Reading: Exploring New Horizons