Making It Happen: From Interactive to Participatory Language Teaching -- Evolving Theory and Practice

by Patricia A. Richard-Amato

This cutting-edge sourcebook for teachers provides a comprehensive vision of effective second language teaching and explores ways to create meaningful interaction leading to emergent participatory language teaching. The fourth edition of "Making It Happen"presents a cyclic approach to theory and practice, in which theory and practice constantly inform each other.Features
Strategies for teaching children, adolescents, and adults from beginning to advanced levels
Am emphasis on peer- and self-evaluation in simulated and real classrooms
A practical reservoir for teachers as they develop their own methodologies and local practice
Discussions of issues critical to program development, lesson design, materials selection, video use, teacher research, and professional development (including SIOP)
Case studies from kindergarten through university level to stimulate professional dialog
New to This Edition
Separate chapters on implicit/explicit teaching and on sociocultural/cognitive synthesis
Sections on form-focus strategies, World Englishes, research directions, corpus analysis, dialogical assessment, and the Acoma heritage language program
Updated research that reflects influential thinking for the 21st century
Also by Patricia A. Richard-Amata (with Marguerite Ann Snow): "Academic Success for English Language Learners: Strategies for K-12 Mainstream Teachers"

Genres: Education, Linguistics, Teaching, Academic, Nonfiction, Professional Development, Language

624 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1988

Reviews

[Lindsay · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is loaded with good information, but it is dry and painful to read. The way in which the book was written is the antithesis of the learning strategies and teaching points that it is trying to convey to its readers.