A guide for the English language teacher a Malaysian perspective

This book is based on my experience as a language teacher for over twenty years and some of the chapters have been adapted and revised from early research papers and articles. This book starts with a description of the socio-historical backdrop of language policies in multilingual, multiracial Malay...

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Main Author: Maya Khemlani David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Petaling Jaya, Selangor Strategic Information and Research Development Centre 2007
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Table of Contents:
  • Political, economic and social backdrop to language teaching in Malaysia
  • Ensuring teaching equates learning
  • Compensating inadequacies through communicative strategies
  • Discourse norms: the influence of group work
  • Going beyond schema: selecting texts
  • Discovering cultural norms through speech acts in texts
  • Incorporating mother tongue in literacy
  • Movies as peripheral teaching aids
  • Sociolinguistic variables in language teaching: use of authentic data