Teaching languages to adolescents can be a real struggle... but hopefully a delight! What works? What doesn't work? This book provides a reader-friendly overview on teaching modern languages to adolescents (grades 7-13). Each chapter takes an aspect of language teaching and learning, and explains the underlying theory of instructed language acquisition and its application through examples from real language classrooms. It explores teachers' practices and the reasoning behind their pedagogic choices, through the voices of both the teachers themselves and their students. At the same time, we highlight the needs of the adolescent language learner and make the case that adolescence is a prime time for language learning. Written in an accessible, engaging way, yet comprehensive in its scope, this will be essential reading for academic researchers of applied linguistics and language teaching, as well as language teachers wishing to integrate cutting-edge research into their teaching.

Book Information
ISBN 9781108798990
Author Rosemary Erlam
Format Paperback
Page Count 250
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press