Developing Professional-Level Language Proficiency

ISBN: 9780521016858 出版年：2002 页码：324 Leaver Shekhtman Cambridge University Press

Foreword Richard Brecht Part I. Principles, Practices, and Theory: 1. Principles and practices in teaching superior-level students: not just more of the same Betty Lou Leaver and Boris Shekhtman 2. Toward academic-level foreign language abilities: reconsidering foundational assumptions, expanding pedagogical options Heidi Byrnes Part II. Programs: 3. Contexts for advanced language learning : a report on an immersion institute Heidi Byrnes 4. Bridging the gap between language for general purposes and language for work: an intensive superior-level language/skill course for teachers, translators, and interpreters Claudia Angelelli and Christian Degueldre 5. Learning Chinese in China: programs for developing superior- to distinguished-level Chinese language proficiency in China and Taiwan Cornelius C. Kubler 6. Developing professional-level oral proficiency: the Shekhtman method of teaching communication Boris Shekhtman and Betty Lou Leaver with Natalia Lord, Ekaterina Kuznetsova, and Elena Ovtcharenko 7. The reading four project: applied technology at the higher levels of foreign language acquisition Catherine W. Ingold 8. In the quest for level 4+ in Arabic: training level 2-3 learners in independent reading Elsaid Badawi 9. Teaching high-level writing skills in English at a Danish University Tim Caudery 10. Heritage speakers as learners at the superior level: differences and similarities between Spanish and Russian student populations Claudia Angelelli and Olga Kagan 11. Teaching Russian language teachers in eight Summer institutes in Russian language and culture Zita Dabars and Olga Kagan Part III. Learners: 12. Understanding the student at the superior-distinguished threshold Madeline Ehrman 13. Achieving multilingualism: preliminary findings from a study of twenty distinguished-level language users Betty Lou Leaver and Sabine Atwell.