Strategy and Skill in Learning a Foreign Language

by Steven McDonough

This book examines the processes involved in acquiring language skills, both mental and social, and the notion of what makes a skilled language learner. At the same time the author discusses what is known about teaching procedures and how they are used by the learner; how tasks are set up, how tasks determine the student's approach, how teachers' feedback is formulated, and how students use the feedback and incorporate it in the development of their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340591099
• ISBN13: 9780340591093
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"