Making It Happen: From Interactive to Participatory Language Teaching -- Evolving Theory and Practice (4th Edition)

This cutting-edge sourcebook for teachers provides a comprehensive vision of effective second/foreign language teaching and explores ways to create meaningful interaction leading to emergent participatory language teaching. The fourth edition of Making It Happen presents a cyclic approach to theory and practice, in which theory and practice constantly inform each other.

FEATURES

* Strategies for teaching children, adolescents, and adults from beginning to advanced levels
* An emphasis on peer- and self-evaluation in simulated and real classrooms
* A practical reservoir for teachers as they develop their own methodologies and local practice
* Discussions of issues critical to program development, lesson design, materials selection, video use, teacher research, and professional development (including SIOP)
* Case studies from kindergarten through university level to stimulate professional dialog

NEW TO THIS EDITION

* Separate chapters on implicit/explicit teaching and on sociocultural/cognitive synthesis
* Sections on form-focus strategies, World Englishes, research directions, corpus analysis, dialogical assessment, and the Acoma heritage language program
* Updated research that reflects influential thinking for the 21st centuryAlso by Patricia A. Richard-Amato (with Marguerite Ann Snow):Academic Success for English Language Learners: Strategies for K-12 Mainstream Teachers, Pearson Education/Longman, 2005

• Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model (5th Edition) (SIOP Series)
• ESL Teaching, Revised Edition: Principles for Success
• Principles of Language Learning and Teaching (6th Edition)
• Assessing English Language Learners: Bridges to Educational Equity: Connecting Academic Language Proficiency to Student Achievement
• Essential Linguistics, Second Edition: What Teachers Need to Know to Teach ESL, Reading, Spelling, and Grammar
• Diversity Pedagogy: Examining the Role of Culture in the Teaching-Learning Process
• Learning About Language Assessment (TeacherSource)
• Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action
• Building Literacy with English Language Learners, Second Edition: Insights from Linguistics
• Balanced Literacy for English Language Learners, K-2