This book presents the Production-Oriented Approach (POA) to teaching foreign languages, which has been developed by the author through several rounds of experiments over the course of the past 15 years. The approach has been proposed to solve the problem of the separation of input from output, which is pervasive in foreign language teaching contexts, and in this book the author illustrates the implementation of POA teaching procedures in terms of three phases: motivating, enabling and assessing. She explains the theoretical bases of the POA, including usage-based linguistic, sociocultural, second language acquisition and curriculum theories, and then presents a series of case studies of the approach in practice, including making a comparison of the POA with task-based and outcome-based approaches, highlighting similarities and differences. This book will be of interest to teachers and scholars in applied linguistics, modern foreign languages, language acquisition and language education.
Part I Background.
Chapter 1: The post-method era and the need of a new
approach.
Chapter 2: Major problems in foreign language teaching in China.-
Chapter 3: Motivations for the production-oriented approach (POA).- Part II
POA theory.
Chapter 4: Theoretical basis.
Chapter 5: A general
description of the POA.
Chapter 6: Principles of the POA.
Chapter 7:
Hypotheses of the POA.
Chapter 8: Teaching procedures of the POA.- Part III
POA practice.
Chapter 9: Motivating.
Chapter 10: Enabling.
Chapter 11:
Teacher-student collaborative assessment (TSCA).
Chapter 12: The use of POA
teaching materials.- Part III Unique features of the POA.
Chapter 13: The
comparison of the POA with other approaches.
Chapter 14: Conclusion.
Qiufang Wen is a Professor at the National Research Center for Foreign Language Education, affiliated to Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. Her research interests are primarily in foreign language education, teacher development and language policies.
