Language Teaching Roles Teach & Learn

What roles do teachers and learners play in classroom language learning, and what kinds of activities and materials bring them into the most effective partnership? This book has the aim of helping teachers to discover for themselves the best ways of fostering co-operative learning in their own classrooms. Teaching and learning as social activities. What is a role? Factors influencing teacher and learner roles. Teacher and learner roles in the classroom. Teaching tasks and teaching strategies. Teaching style. Instructional tasks, strategies, materials and resources. Language learning tasks and activities. Learning groups. The individual learner. Classroom processes. Investigating teacher and learner roles.