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ConstruingForeignLanguageEducaton
areeńectveenoughforthelearners.Someofthequestonsthatneedurgent
answersbeforeduringandattheendofthelessonsmaybethefollowingones:
whateducaton-friendlyatmospherecouldtheimplementatonofagivenproce-
dureevoke;whetherthecurrentprocessofFLEhelpslearnersimplicitlydiscover
thetopic;orwhethersomeother,sometmesfullydińerent,techniquesareto
beintroduced;howmuchtheoryistobepairedwithpractce;howmanydif-
ferentmotvaton-evokingstmulioughttobeapplied;whatformsofclassroom
behavioraredivergentandinvolvement-focusingbythestudents.
Assaidabovethesearebutafew-outofaninnumerableamountofques-
tons-thatneedtobeansweredbythelanguageteacherbothbeforeandduring
thelessons.Nolanguageteacherwillfindanappropriateanswerrightaway;this
iswhereknowledgecomestohelpthem.Itisfrominareaofteaching/learning
actviteswhereateacheroughttolookforpossiblesolutonstothedilemmas
experiencedbythem.Bycomparingtheinformatonfoundtherewiththecon-
clusionsthatresultfromthesituatonsjustexperienced,canalanguageteacher
storethescopeofinformatonthatwouldhelpthemfindtherightpathand
incitethesparksofinterestinthemindsoftheirstudents.
Thebookcontainsasmanyastwentyonedińerentissuesthathavetobe
lookedintobecauseofmany(bothexternalandinternal)reasons.Notonlycan
itsreadersdiscovervariousstrictlydidactcpiecesofinformaton,butalsore-
freshtheirknowledgeintheareasthatsmoothlyjoinpractcewiththeory.In
thiswaythelearnerscanrefreshtheirknowledgeonwhatteaching/learning
aforeignlanguageis;butalsotheycanfindinformatononhowtobehaveinthe
classroom:whatformsofactvityarerecommendedandwhatnot;whattopay
atentontowhenteachinggrammarorlexis;howtostmulatethestudentsso
thattheyareeagerenoughtostartworkinginadivergentway;andwhattodo
toońeralessonplanthatwouldbeabletomeetthelearners!expectatons.The
mostimportantpurposesthebookistofulfilareasfollows:tohelptheteachers
becomemoreproficientones;toletthemfindoutwhattheprincipallanguage
teaching/learninggoalsare;toletthemconstruelanguagelessonsindepen-
dently(i.e.onthegroundsoftheirowndecisions,withtotalexclusionofthe
piecesofadvicefoundinteacherbooks);and–lastbutnotleast-tostmulate
theircreatvenaturesoastohavethelearnersbecomeindividuallyinclinedin
theprocessesleadingtoenlargementoftheirlanguage-connectedknowledge/
proficiency.Obviously,theanswerswhethertheseaimshavebeenfulfilledrest
inthehandsofthebookusers.
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