Language for Teaching Purposes

Offers comprehensive insight into language teacher language use

Maintains a practical focus whilst being based in rigorous Applied Linguistics empirical research

Proposes course content based on the idea of target task analysis

Offers comprehensive insight into language teacher language use Maintains a practical focus whilst being based in rigorous Applied Linguistics empirical research Proposes course content based on the idea of target task analysis

Autorentext
Emma Riordan is Lecturer in German and Applied Linguistics at University College Cork, Ireland. She has been a native speaking teacher of English and non-native speaking teacher of German for 15 years. Her research interests include language teaching and learning, discourse analysis, language policy and language teacher training.

Zusammenfassung

Offers comprehensive insight into language teacher language use

Maintains a practical focus whilst being based in rigorous Applied Linguistics empirical research

Proposes course content based on the idea of target task analysis

Inhalt
1 Introduction.2 Language for Specific Purposes: Theory and research. 3 Classroom discourse: defining the genre.4 The medium and the object: Foreign language classroom discourse.5 The non-native speaker language teacher.6 The non-native speaker language teacher as model bilingual.7 Target Task Analysis.8 Discussion.