Help Them Learn a Language Deeply - Francois Victor Tochon's Deep Approach to World Languages and Cultures - Softcover

Tochon, Francois Victor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1939755026 ISBN 13: 9781939755025

Publisher: Deep University Press, 2014

Synopsis

The book presents what will become the mainstream of tomorrow as regards language teaching methods. It indicates severe limits in the standardization of outcomes defined through backward planning, and moves on with project-based, forward planning on the basis of flexible instructional organizers. The author proposes a revolution in the way we teach world languages. The focus is on cultural pragmatics and assisted, self-directed learning. Writing and recording take the fore to support communication progress and depth. A large part of what is done in classrooms is self-determined by the student or groups of students who choose their pacing and personalized productions. Such apprenticeship becomes meaningful through transdisciplinary aims. Compatible with content-based and literacy-based approaches, the deep approach creates a situation in which students are the curriculum builders.

Edition details

• Publisher: Deep University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1939755026
• ISBN 13: 9781939755025
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448