The Psychologist and the Foreign-language TeacherSince its original publication in 1968, Rivers's comprehensive and practical text has become a standard reference for both student teachers and veteran instructors. All who wish to draw from the most recent thinking in the field will welcome this new edition. Methodology is appraised, followed up by discussions on such matters as keeping students of differing abilities active, evaluating textbooks, using language labs creatively, and preparing effective exercises and drills. The author ends each chapter of this new edition with questions for research and discussion -- a useful classroom tool -- and provides an up-to-date bibliography that facilitates further understanding of such matters as the bilingual classroom. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Audiolingual Method Described | 10 |
Major Assumptions about Language Learn | 19 |
Copyright | |
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acquired activity analogy aroused audio-lingual method automatic B. F. Skinner become behaviorist Brooks chap classical conditioning classroom communication concept conditioned context crucial element cues culture develop dialogue discrimination drive Dunkel effect emotional experience experimental expression fatigue foreign language foreign-language class foreign-language learning foreign-language teacher function Gestalt Gestalt psychology goal guage habit hearing Hilgard Ibid individual interest intervening variables language laboratory Language Learning Language Teaching latent learning Law of Effect learning theory linguistic scientists material McGeoch and Irion meaning mediating reaction memorization ment motivation Mowrer native language native speaker Northeast Conference 1961 object oral organism Osgood overlearning pattern drill perceived Politzer practice Pribram psychological reactive inhibition reading repetition response-correlated stimuli reward right response says secondary reinforcement similar situation skill Skinner sound speak speech sponse structure student Teacher's Manual 1961 tion trial-and-error Tufts University understanding utterance verbal behavior words York