TEACHING LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT, THIRD EDITION is the essential methods text for anyone teaching or learning to teach a foreign language. TEACHING LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT combines an updated, comprehensive, readable review of the literature, a thorough bibliography, and sample activities and approaches that effectively model the methodology.

TEACHING LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT is THE essential, must have methods text for anyone teaching or learning to teach a foreign language.

Methods to contextualize tests in the four skill areas of listening, reading, writing, and speech are described. The roles of grammatical and lexical cues, recording semantic details, cloze adaptation, comprehensive questions, logical continuation items, global classification, and sociolinguistic factors are examined in relation to test formats. Various levels of grammatical and lexical specificity are illustrated and mixed skill items are discussed. Ideas for oral proficiency testing including interviews based on the ACTFL/ETS Rating Scales are provided. Following the description of item types, concrete suggestions for creating tests are offered. It is noted that because the contextualized tests integrated many linguistic and lexical features in a few well chosen contexts, the creation of the test is simpler than when instruction contains unrelated items. Several examples of hour-long unit exams for college French and Spanish courses are presented. (RW)

This work includes a revised multimedia package and updated cultural information presented in the Correspondence feature and in the new Bienvenue dans le monde francophone feature that recurs after every four chapters in the text. Its overall aim is to promote a balanced four-skills approach to learning French through a variety of listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities, while introducing students to the diversity of the francophone world.

A one-volume intermediate French text which includes a grammar review, with grammar explanations in English for easy student access, exercises and activities, readings with reading strategies - with both author-written and contemporary authentic selections - and cultural material from France and the Francophone world. Also included is a special chapter designed for students who plan to study abroad, providing them with practical information without glossing over the difficulties they will encounter.