Fluency and Accuracy: Toward Balance in Language Teaching and Learning (Multilingual Matters)

437 Pages·1991·1.37 MB·English

by  Hector Hammerly

Fluency and Accuracy : Toward Balance in
title: Language Teaching and Learning
Multilingual Matters (Series) ; 73
author: Hammerly, Hector.
publisher: Multilingual Matters
isbn10 | asin: 1853591157
print isbn13: 9781853591150
ebook isbn13: 9780585259734
language: English
Language and languages--Study and
subject
teaching, Second language acquisition.
publication date: 1991
lcc: P51.H315 1991eb
ddc: 418/.007
Language and languages--Study and
subject:
teaching, Second language acquisition.
Page i
Fluency and Accuracy
Toward Balance in Language Teaching and
Learning
Page ii
Multilingual Matters
About Translation
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The Acquisition of Irish
MAIRE OWENS
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Cultural Studies in Foreign Language Education
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Current Trends in European Second Language Acquisition Research
HANS W. DECHERT (ed.)
ESL: A Handbook for Teachers and Administrators in International
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Foreign/Second Language Pedagogy Research
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SHARWOOD SMITH and M. SWAIN (eds)
Individualizing the Assessment of Language Abilities
JOHN H. A. L. DE LONG and D. G. STEVENSON (eds)
Investigating Cultural Studies in Foreign Language Teaching
M. BYRAM and V. ESARTE-SARRIES
Language Acquisition: The Age Factor
D. M. SINGLETON
Language, Culture and Cognition
LILLIAM MALAVE and GEORGES DUQUETTE (eds)
Language Distribution Issues in Bilingual Schooling
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The Role of the First Language in Second Language Learning
HÅKAN RINGBOM
Second Language Acquisition Foreign Language Learning
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Story as Vehicle
EDIE GARVIE
Teaching and Learning English Worldwide
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MULTILINGUAL MATTERS 73
Series Editor: Derrick Sharp
Fluency and Accuracy
Toward Balance in Language Teaching and Learning
Hector Hammerly
MULTILINGUAL MATTERS LTD
Clevedon Philadelphia Adelaide
To the memory of
Tai Whan Kim
(19331990)
friend, colleague, scholar
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Hammerly, Hector.
Fluency and Accuracy: Toward Balance in Language Teaching and
Learning/Hector Hammerly.
p. cm. (Multilingual Matters: 73)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Language and languages Study and teaching. 2. Second language acquisition.
I. Title. II. Series: Multilingual Matters (Series): 73
P51.H315 1991
418´.007 dc20
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Hammerly, Hector.
Fluency and Accuracy: Toward Balance in Language Teaching and Learning.
1. Schools. Curriculum subjects: Languages. Teaching methods.
I. Title.
407.1
ISBN 1-85359-116-5
ISBN 1-85359-115-7 (pbk)
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Page v
Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xi
Language Learning in the Classroom
1 1
Second Language Acquisition through Classroom
Communication/Interaction (SLACC/I) and Linguistic
Accuracy
2 14
'New' and 'Old' in Language Teaching
3 25
Theories, Models and Methods
4 41
On Second Language Proficiency
5 52
Balance in Language Teaching and Learning
New Views on Familiar Topics
6 62
Language Transfer Revisited
7 72
On Preventing the Establishment of an Interlanguage
8 82
A New Way to Look at Student Errors
9 90
The Surface and Deep Correction of Errors
10 110
Language Teaching and the Students' Native Language
Proposals and Suggestions
11 119
How to Teach Languages with the Two-Cone Model:
Assumptions behind the Cumulative Mastery Method
12 136
How to Teach Languages with the Two-Cone Model:
Procedures of the Cumulative Mastery Method
13 148
Some Suggestions for English as a Remote Language and
English as a Local Language
Page vi
14 158
A Total Language Teaching Program (TLTP)
15 174
Linguistics and 'the Real World': Toward More Applicable
Theories of Language
Broader Implications
16 183
The Broader Meaning of the CAN/SLACC/I/'I'
Experience: Conclusions
Appendices
A 191
Results of Standardized Tests
B 193
A Plea for (Unbiased) Research on Second Language
Teaching
References 196
Index 201