Full Description
Ideal for methods and foundational courses in world languages education, this book presents a theoretically informed instructional framework for instruction and assessment of world languages. In line with ACTFL and CEFR standards, this volume brings together scholarship on contextualized, task-based performance assessment and instruction with a genre theory and pedagogy to walk through the steps of designing and implementing effective genre-based instruction. Chapters feature step-by-step lesson designs, models of performance assessment, and a wealth of practical and research-based examples on how to make languages explicit to students through a focus on genre. Including sections on Arabic, French, Spanish, Italian, and other major world languages, this book demonstrates how to effectively teach and assess world languages in the classroom.
Contents
PART I
Genre and Functional Linguistics as a Foundation for World Language Assessment and Learning
Chapter 1
Genres in Contextualized World Language Assessment and Learning
Francis John Troyan
Chapter 2
Developing a Critical Functional Linguistic Knowledge Based for World Language Teachers
Francis John Troyan and Sabrina Sembiante
Chapter 3
Modelling a Genre-Based Approach to Backward Design: The Landmark Description in Spanish
Francis John Troyan
Part II
Teaching and Assessing Written Genres
Chapter 4
Memories of Childhood: The Genre of Anecdote in German
Marianna Ryshina-Pankova
Chapter 5
A Genre-Based Approach to Teaching and Assessing the Recount of Habitual Events in Arabic
Myriam Abdel-Malek
Chapter 6
Il Était une Fois: Co-constructing Narratives in French
Nicole King and Ahmed Bramli
Chapter 7
Teaching Explanation in an Intermediate Japanese Language Classroom
Shinji Kawamitsu
Chapter 8
The Poster: A Genre to Develop and Assess Academic English Writing Skills
Ida Chavoshan
Chapter 9
Developing Academic Writing of Spanish Heritage Language Learners through Biographies in Spanish
Díana Goméz
Part III
Teaching and Assessing Spoken Genres
Chapter 10
Developing Oral Interaction in Italian through the Generic Structure of Typified Situations
Loretta Fernandez
Chapter 11
A Genre-Based Approach to Planning and Assessing Interpersonal Communication
Francis John Troyan and Steven Wisnor
with Madison J. Brandfass, Jane M. Cassidy, Lexie Neider, Sara E. Nippert, Haley C. Waldo, Emily M. Warburton, Caroline D. Hennebert, Mary E. Jenkins, and Maryann Kusmer
