Mediating between theory and practice in the context of different learning cultures and languages / 
David Newby. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Strasbourg :  Council of Europe Publishing ;  European Centre for Modern Languages,  2003. 
 - 214 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> "European Centre for Modern Languages, Graz" - t.p. 
<br/><br/>Foreword Introduction /   David Newby Section 1: Coordinators and Guest Speakers The interface between theory and practice /   David Newby ‘Expert beyond experience’: Notes on the appropriate use of theory in practice /   H.G. Widdowson The relationship between different languages and their learnability /   Peter Bierbaumer The flow between theory and practice: the teacher’s point of view /   Christien Van Gool How teachers face changes in Latvia /   Indra Odina Linking theory and practice in a Slovakian context /   <br/>Maria Kostelnikova Section 2: Results of the pre-workshop study The teachers’ questionnaire The students’ questionnaire Language Learning and Teaching in Austria /   Isabel Landsiedler Language Learning and Teaching in Germany /   Brigitte Jostes Language Learning and Teaching in Latvia /   Aina Kackere Language Learning and Teaching in Finland /   Annikki Koskensalo Language Learning and Teaching in Slovakia /   Gabriela Lojová Language Learning and Teaching in Bulgaria /   Antonia Radkova Language Learning and Teaching in Norway /   Renée Waara Language Learning and Teaching in Malta /   Marjes Zammit, Charles Mifsud Section 3: Projects and Research Language courses and Self Access Language Learning for adults: A new way of Language Learning in Adult Education in Austria /   Elisabeth Allgäuer-Hackl, Austria Autonomy of the learner and the teacher in French as a foreign language /   Bernard André, France Teachers Write about their Professional Growth /   Nida Burneikaite, Lithuania Language learning via CD-Rom – old wine in new bottles /   Martin Kaltenbacher, Austria Innovation in foreign language teaching based on applications for the European Label for Innovative Projects in Language Teaching and Learning in Austria between 1998 and 2000 /   Bernhard Kettemann, Austria Johnson’s model of foreign language grammar learning applied in Slovak secondary schools /   Gabriela Lojová, Slovakia Interdisciplinary cooperation in pre-service English language teacher training programmes /   Barbara Mehlmauer-Larcher, Austria French for Specific Purposes: One-size or tailor-made courses? /   Christine Noe, Austria Two INSET projects: Spanish as a Second Language and English as a Foreign Language /   Fernando Trujillo Sáez, Spain 
<br/><br/> "[...] The overall aim of this project was to explore the interface between different types of theory and actual classroom practice and to consider what measures could be taken to optimise the mutual flow between theory and practice in the context of foreign language teaching. [...]" (Book Cover) 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9287152705 (pbk) 9789287152701 (pbk) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Languages, Modern--Study and teaching--Europe.<br/>Languages, Modern--Study and teaching--Methodology.