Teaching English, Michael Meyer
Teaching English, Michael Meyer
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Teaching English

Author: Michael Meyer, Laurenz Volkmann, Nancy Grimm

Narrator: Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Unabridged: 11 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/25/2022


Synopsis

This lively audiobook in a pleasant female voice with a charming British accent appeals to students who like to complement their reading of the book with listening – or simply missed the lecture. Watching the PowerPoint presentations online while listening facilitates multimodal learning.
This audiobook also serves a lecture-oriented flipped classroom and complements other introductions to teaching English as a foreign language because the 12 lectures offer an accessible and up-to-date introduction.

Definitions and practical examples guide the understanding and reflection of basic and advanced concepts of foreign language learning.This introduction responds to new developments in language education: (1) Recent policies from the Kultusministerkonferenz and updates of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages with its Companion Volume (2020) pay more attention to language awareness, mediation, and media literacy. (2) New empirical research explores the aims, methods, and impact of professional teacher education, Task-Based Language Teaching, and Content-and-Language-Integrated Learning. (3) The dramatic need for online teaching has met with refined concepts of multimodal media competence and cutting-edge tools for the digital classroom. The audiobook is also available as aprinted book and ebook, PowerPoint presentations are provided online. Thus multimodal teaching and learning is facilitated.

About Michael Meyer

Michael Meyer, author and journalist, is currently chief speechwriter for the secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon. Before that, he worked for Newsweek for two decades, most recently as Europe editor for Newsweek International, where he also oversaw the magazine's coverage of the Middle East and Asia. Between 1988 and 1992, Meyer was Newsweek's bureau chief for Germany, Central Europe, and the Balkans, during which time he wrote more than twenty cover stories on the break-up of Communist Europe and German unification. He is the author of The Alexander Complex, and he lives in New York City with his wife.


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