Languages and Learners Making the Match World Language Instruction in K-8 Classrooms and Beyond 5th Edition

Languages and Learners: Making the Matchis designed both as a methods text and as a practical guide for schools and teachers.

Communication is the essential element, the fundamental principle of this book. It unifies the guidelines offered and the methods and materials described. This book suggests guidelines and examples to assist the teacher in creating a standards-based classroom in which communication has the highest priority. This book consists of eight sections – “Fundamentals”, “Planning”, “The Learning Experience”, “Performance and Feedback”, “Environment”, “Learning Tools”, “Professionalism and Collaboration”, and “Programs”, discussing such practical topics as curriculum planning, strategies for building toward proficiency, connecting language and culture, using assessment to help learners and programs grow, managing the learning environment, using learning tools effectively, developing professional teachers, and planning and implementing effective programs.

The fifth edition presents new sections and chapters on technology, assessment, teaching grammar, using stories and children’s literature, and integrates additional examples of differentiated instruction activities, student-created work, revised guidelines for small-group and partner activities, and matrix of activity types as well as insights from guest contributors.