Models of Language Use and Language Learning in the Theory of Language Didactics: v. 4 (Fls - Foreign Language Studies) - Softcover

Dakowska, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3631491239 ISBN 13: 9783631491232

Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, 1995

Synopsis

The success of foreign language teaching at meeting the challenges of the present and the future depends on its ability to establish itself as a scientific discipline in its own right. There are profound consequences of this conviction in research strategies as well as in modelling its research subject matter. The author starts with the question: what is an autonomous empirical discipline? Next she elaborates a set of guidelines to be used in model selection and design. Major models of second language acquisition are reviewed and evaluated from this perspective. In the next part of the book the author uses these criteria to develop a model which would match the empirical and autonomous requirements selected at the beginning of the work.

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About the Author

The Author: Maria Dakowska is a faculty member at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Warsaw University, specializing in the theory of language teaching. She also takes a great interest in all aspects of teacher training. Apart from publishing many articles in scholarly journals at home and abroad, she has become known through her influential monograph Functions of Linguistics in Didactic Models and Processes. She spent two years in the US researching second language models as well as teaching foreign language methodology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631491239
• ISBN 13: 9783631491232
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 198