"Beyond Methods: Macrostrategies for Language Teaching" by B. Kumaravadivelu

Beyond Methods: Macrostrategies for Language Teaching B. Kumaravadivelu

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Series:: Yale Language Series
Format:: Paperback
Publication date:: 18 Dec 2002
ISBN:: 9780300095739
Imprint:: Yale University Press
Dimensions:: 352 pages: 235 x 156mm
Sales territories:: World

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In this original book, B. Kumaravadivelu presents a macrostrategic framework designed to help both beginning and experienced teachers develop a systematic, coherent, and personal theory of practice. His book provides the tools a teacher needs in order to self-observe, self-analyze, and self-evaluate his or her own teaching acts.

The framework consists of ten macrostrategies based on current theoretical, empirical, and experiential knowledge of second language and foreign language teaching. These strategies enable teachers to evaluate classroom practices and to generate techniques and activities for realizing teaching goals. With checklists, surveys, projects, and reflective tasks to encourage critical thinking, the book is both practical and accessible. Teachers and future teachers, researchers, and teacher educators will find the volume indispensable.

B. Kumaravadivelu is professor of applied linguistics and TESOL at San Jose State University.

"This timely publication provides the tools a teacher needs in order to self-observe, self-analyze, and self-evaluate his or her own teaching acts."—Educational Book Review

"This book challenges teachers to think, and it succeeds. Kumaravadivelu addresses critical theory, sociopolitical issues, the importance of context, cognitive processing, and a host of other important aspects of language teaching."—Rebecca Oxford, University of Maryland

"The subject is timely, and the book succeeds in bringing together scholarship from general education, second/foreign language education, and applied linguistics to create a coherent framework for thinking about and designing language lessons."—Sara Cushing Weigle, Georgia State University

"This is indeed provocative and thought-provoking stuff."—Simon Great, GRETA

"Beyond Methods challengeslanguage teachers to go beyond the details of language acquisition and reflect on the larger issues which encompass their learners lives. Stimulating and provocative, this book is an excellent choice for a text on reflective teaching."—Thomas Scovel, San Francisco State University