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The Literacy Approach to Teaching Foreign Languages

Palgrave Macmillan

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  1. Ana Halbach

    1. Department of Modern Languages, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

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  • Argues that "communicating to learn" approaches often fail to transition into the language classroom
  • Proposes a rationale for the literacy approach, looking at the way units of work are planned
  • Presents examples of literacy units developed for primary and secondary school students

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  3. The Literacy Approach

    • Ana Halbach
    Pages 13-28

  6. A Literacy Unit in Primary Education

    • Ana Halbach
    Pages 61-72

  8. Teachers and the Literacy Approach

    • Ana Halbach
    Pages 89-96

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 97-108
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About this book

This book describes a new approach to teaching foreign languages for primary and secondary school that shifts the attention from learning the language to communicate skillfully in the foreign language. The approach focuses on developing students’ literacy skills as a way to discover language and make it meaningful. In the first four chapters the rationale for the approach is explained and illustrated with examples from different units of work in different languages (French, English and Spanish). Chapter 5 talks the reader through a complete unit of work based on a YouTube video, while chapter 6 looks at how this approach can be integrated into an existing curriculum. The book ends by looking at teachers and their difficulties in implementing this approach, and finally sets the Literacy Approach against recent developments in education. This volume will be of interest to academics, students and teachers in fields including foreign language education, literacy development, and CLIL.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Modern Languages, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain

    Ana Halbach

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About the author

Ana Halbach is full Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. Her research interests include CLIL, literacy development in the foreign language and the role of language development for learning. Working closely with schools and teachers constitutes a central aspect of her work.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Literacy Approach to Teaching Foreign Languages

  • Authors: Ana Halbach

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94879-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94878-8Published: 22 March 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-94879-5Published: 21 March 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 108

  • Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Applied Linguistics, Language Education, Modern Languages, Literacy, Language Acquisition and Development

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