Current trends in modern languages provision for non-specialist linguists

Ed. Mike Fay & Derrik Ferney

In association with Anglia Polytechnic University

This book presents a collection of papers examining some of the most crucial issues which have emerged in the debate about provision for non-specialist language learners, who now outnumber those specialising in languages in higher education. It explores how Institution-Wide Language Programmes and Language Centres can identify and meet the needs of a wide spectrum of learners, and facilitate subsequent professional mobility across linguistic and cultural frontiers. It covers a range of current issues, including transferable skills, learner strategies, residence abroad, distance learning and grammar.

Contents

Introduction | Embedding transferable skills within the institution-wide languages curriculum. Mike Fay and Ruth Pilkington | Helping learners to help themselves: The role of metacognitive skills and strategies in independent language learning. Stella Hurd | Supporting and sustaining language growth during periods of residence abroad. Anne Ife and Alicia Peña Calvo | The assessment of transferable skills. Peter James | Do it yourself: The role of autonomy in the preparation of non-specialist language learners for residence abroad. Tim W Lewis, Lesley Walker and Ursula Stickler | Coping with the diversity of language competence displayed by intermediate level IWLP students: Evaluation of the Sheffield Hallam University Language Scheme placement tests. Chris Lyne, Gudrun Myers, Christine O'Leary and Mark Pettigrew | Developing a specialist lexis and register in the higher stages of an IWLP: A teacher's perspective Christine O'Leary | Consolidation of non-specialist courses with provision for specialist langauge students: Moving towards one language provision. Helen Philips | What does it take to agree on a mark? Approaches to the correction of linguistic inaccuracy in supported distance learning programmes in languages.Cristina Ros i Solé and Mike Truman | Icons or iconoclasm? The case for multimedia technologies in language learning. Colin Beavan | Grammar, consciousness-raising and independent study: A discourse-based approach as applied to French. Dounia Bissar and Cécile Tschirhart | Developing a new language curriculum for non-specialists: From theory to practice and back. Maria Guarnieri and Carmen Usategui

2000 | 214pp | ISBN-13: 978-1-902031-56-9 | ISBN-10: 1-902031-56-3 | £15 | Order this title online

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