Most learning on the job is informal. This book offers advice on how to
support, nurture, and leverage informal learning and helps trainers to
go beyond their typical classes and programs in order to widen and
deepen heir reach. The author reminds us that we live in a new,
radically different, constantly changing, and often distracting
workplace. He guides us through the plethora of digital learning tools
that workers are now accessing through their computers, PDAs, and cell phones.
The starting point for this collection is a chapter by Dick Allwright on the language learning and teaching classroom experience entitled Six Promising Directions in Applied Linguistics.
The other distinguished contributors respond to this discussion with
their own interpretations and from their own experience. The collection
problematizes prescription,
efficiency, and technical solutions as orientations to classroom
language learning. Complexity and idiosyncrasy, on the other hand, are
recognized as central concepts in a move towards centralizing teachers'
and learners' own understanding of "classroom life", in the contexts of
language learning, adult literacy education and language teacher
education.
From one of the leading international experts on life-long learning, "Power Up Your Mind" will revolutionize our understanding of how our brains are pre-wired to learn and the practical steps we can take to prepare ourselves (emotionally and physically) to participate fully in the process.
Diagnostic tools, activities, and stories demonstrate the power of esteem, confidence, and motivation on effective learning, describe the role creativity, aging, and emotional readiness play in the learning process, and help readers create a personal action plan for life-long learning.
Strategies for Success, by H. Douglas Brown, enables students and teachers to take a fresh look at the learning process. Its strategies-based instruction guides students to become aware of their learning styles and to develop strategies to make their language learning successful. It can be used to enhance any English language course. The book's twelve chapters focus on concepts from self-awareness and affective styles to multiple intelligences and the cultural aspects of learning a language.
Features:
* Questionnaires in every chapter help learners assess their learning styles.
* Discussions encourage students to explore language-learning strategies, take risks, build self-confidence, and acquire successful test-taking strategies.
* End of chapter exercises help users practice all language skills as they develop learning strategies.
New Opportunities now comes with new features and components to make your lessons even more motivating and successful.
