Overview
- Based on appropriate and widely accepted standards for foreign language education
- Includes activities for develo** learners’ interpersonal, presentational, and interpretive skills
- Enables learners to develop intercultural communicative competencies
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This book provides curriculum planners, materials developers, and language educators with curricular perspectives and classroom activities in order to address the needs of learners of English as a global lingua franca in an increasingly globalized and interdependent world. The authors argue that language educators would benefit from synthesizing and using research and evidence-based cooperative learning methods and structures to address the current world-readiness standards for learning languages in the five domains of Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities. The book outlines the main cooperative learning principles of heterogenous grou**, positive interdependence, individual accountability, social/collaborative skills, and group processing, then demonstrates their relevance to language teaching and learning. This book will be of interest to students in pre-service teacher education programmes as well as in-service practitioners, teacher trainersand educational administrators.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Ghazi M. Ghaith is Professor at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses and conducts regular in-service training in Lebanon and the Middle East. His professional interests include curriculum development and material writing. His research focuses on the determinants of reading comprehension and the applications of cooperative learning in language teaching and teacher education.
Ghada M. Awada is a faculty member and researcher at the Lebanese American University-Graduate Research Studies, Lebanon. Her research interests span reading and writing strategies, human rights education (HRE), global citizenship education (GCED), cooperative learning, and ICT integration in teaching and learning.
Ghada M. Awada is a faculty member and researcher at the Lebanese American University-Graduate Research Studies, Lebanon. Her research interests span reading and writing strategies, human rights education (HRE), global citizenship education (GCED), cooperative learning, and ICT integration in teaching and learning.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cooperative Learning and World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages
Book Subtitle: A Guide for Effective Practice
Authors: Ghazi M. Ghaith, Ghada M. Awada
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04590-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04589-9Published: 19 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04590-5Published: 18 July 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 129
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Language Education, Education, general, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics