Trends in Language Teaching

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Translation and Multilingual Education/Kathleen Heugh. 3. Innovations in Research and Teaching in Multilingual lassrooms/Mukul Saxena. 4. Teaching Hindi as a Less Commonly Taught Language in North America/Rajesh Kumar. 5. Linguistic and Cultural Diversity and Language Teaching—with a Specific Focus on the Teaching of Reading and Writing to Young Learners/Keerti Jayaram. 6. Teaching Language and Achieving Literacy: Interfering with Learning, or Guiding it?/R. Amritavalli. 7. ‘Speaking of Food: Apple…ice-cream…posto…pesta…roti…’/Rimli Bhattacharya. 8. General Semantics, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Language in the Classroom/Pramod Pandey and Aruna Kornana. 9. Reformulation as a Technique for Teaching Writing/Yasmeen Lukmani and B. Samal. 10. Karaoke: A Powerful Tool to Improve Reading Skills/Aarti M. Punjabi and Yasmeen Lukmani. 11. The Role of ‘Noticing’ In Learning Grammar/Vijaya John Kohli. 12. Exploring Multiple Intelligences through Storytelling in the Classroom/Shefali Ray. 13. Language Teaching in Inclusive Education/Santosh Kumar. 14. Language Teaching and Learning for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder/Shubhangi Vaidya and Merry Barua. Index.

This book is a collection essays on language teaching-learning. The book offers substantial ideas regarding the methods of language teaching in inclusive education. The book also discusses the methods used for teaching learning procedures to children who have learning disorders and disabilities. These essays are held together by the idea of treating multilingualism as an asset and not a hindrance in language acquisition.(jacket)