An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (Learning about Language)

An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching provides an engaging, student-friendly up-to-date guide to the field of foreign language learning and teaching. Aimed at students with no background in the area and taking a task-based approach, this thoroughly revised fourth edition:introduces the theoretical and practical aspects of both learning and teaching, and provides discussion and workshop activities throughout each chapter of the book, along with further reading and reflection tasks;deals with classroom- and task-based teaching, including content-based instruction and content and language integrated learning.It also covers lesson planning and testing, making the book suitable for use on practical training courses;analyses different learning styles and suggests strategies to improve language acquisition;introduces discussions about technology supported (GenAI) foreign language teaching and learning;includes examples from foreign language learning in Russian, French, Dan