Teaching Languages Creatively

Philip Hood

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781138699656
• eBook ISBN: 9781315516318
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Teaching Languages Creatively brings together the experience of international primary language experts to explore creative teaching and learning in primary languages. Drawing on the latest research and theory and illustrated with ideas and case studies from real schools, it covers key topics, including:

• engaging students in the target language;
• celebrating bilingualism in the classroom;
• incorporating technology into modern teaching;
• integrating language learning across the curriculum;
• successful transitions;
• learning languages through singing, storytelling and dance.

Ideal for primary trainee teachers, newly qualified teachers, and established teachers looking for creative new ideas to enrich the learning experience of their students, Teaching Languages Creatively is an essential guide for inspiring the love of languages that is so vital for young learners.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Contributors
• Series editor’s foreword
• 1 Reviewing the landscape
• 2 Learning from creative bilingual classrooms
• 3 Creative approaches to promoting target language use in the primary classroom
• 4 Developing speaking and pronunciation skills through storytelling on the app iTEO
• 5 Teaching languages creatively through the context of mathematics
• 6 From Empires and Eruptions to Lost Worlds: Placing languages at the heart of the primary curriculum
• 7 Ahoy there, me hearties! Combining foreign languages and dance in the primary curriculum
• 8 Teaching the youngest learners
• 9 Creativity around transition
• 10 The next stage of a journey? Lessons learned from Scotland
• 11 The next stage of a journey? Lessons learned from this book
• Index