Interactive language teaching / edited by Wilga M. Rivers.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Teachers and writers describe the approaches and techniques they have incorporated into their own teaching. The paperback edition is designed to help classroom teachers make language classes more participatory and communication oriented. A distinguished group of innovative teachers and writers describe, in a collection of essays, the approaches and techniques they have incorporated into their own teaching.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• List of abbreviations
• Part I What is Interactive Language Teaching?
• 1 Interaction as the key to teaching language for communication
• 2 Interactive discourse in small and large groups
• Part II Language in the Classroom
• 3 Speaking and listening: imaginative activities for the language class
• 4 Motivating language learners through authentic materials
• 5 Interactive oral grammar exercises
• 6 Interaction of reader and text
• 7 Writing: an interactive experience
• 8 Poetry and song as effective language-learning activities
• 9 'The magic if' of theater: enhancing language learning through drama
• 10 Interactive testing: time to be a test pilot
• Part III The Wider World
• 11 Culturally diverse speech styles Gail
• 12 The use of technology: varying the medium in language teaching
• 13 Interaction outside the classroom: using the community
• 14 Interaction in the computer age
• Bibliography
• Index