Transforming Postsecondary Foreign Language Teaching in the United States

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Swaffar, Janet (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Urlaub, Per (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: Educational Linguistics, 21
• Θέματα: Education.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education > Curricula.; Language and education.; Higher education.; Language Education.; Curriculum Studies.; Higher Education.

This volume addresses critical challenges and issues facing foreign language departments in colleges and universities across the U.S. It presents the insights of individuals who have built or are in the process of building foreign language curricula during a major transition period in postsecondary...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: On Language and Content: The Stakes of Curricular Transformation in Collegiate Foreign Language Education
• PART I Contexts: Drivers for Curricular Change
• 1. From Language to Literacy: The Evolving Concepts of Foreign Language Teaching at American Colleges and Universities since 1945
• 2. The Discourse of Foreignness in U.S. Language Education
• PART II Insights: Making Curricular Transformation Work
• 3. Curricular Integration and Faculty Development: Teaching Language-Based Content across the Foreign Language Curriculum
• 4. Program Sustainability through Interdisciplinary Networking: On Connecting Foreign Language Programs with Sustainability Studies and Other Fields
• 5. Are Global, International and Foreign Language Studies Connected?
• 6. Integrating Business and Foreign Languages: The Lauder Institute and Advanced Language Education
• PART III Outlook: Strategies Facilitating a Curricular Transformation for Multi literacies
• 7. Mapping New Classrooms in Literacy-Oriented Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: The Role of the Reading Experience
• 8. Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Professional Development: Challenges and Strategies Meeting the 2007 MLA Report Call’s for Change
• 9. Discipline, Institution and Assessment: The Graduate Curriculum, Credibility and Accountability.