Language and Language Teaching
Volume 5 Number 1 Issue 9 January 2016
LLT COVER
LLT Editors, Editorial Committee,Executive Committee, International Review and Advisory Board
LLT Editors, Editorial Committee,Executive Committee, International Review and Advisory Board
Teaching Linguistic Diversity through Linguistic Landscape1
1Rizwan Ahmad
Can Poetry be Taught?
8R.W. Desai
Summary Writing: Part I
12Yasmeen Lukmani
Foundation Programme for Early Literacy and Learning – 2014-15: A Pilot Study
17Keerti Jayaram
Creating Dependent Readers and Writers: Our Complicated Simple Pedagogic Approach
23Nidhi Kunwar
Children Understimate how much Others Read: A Confirmation Using Chinese 7th Graders in Hefei, China
28Sy-Ying Lee, Christy Lao and Stephen Krashen
Exploring the Views of Teacher Educators and Pupil Teachers on Status of Reading in Pre-Service Programmes
32Pooja Bahuguna
Teaching Critical Reading at the Undergraduate Level
37N.P. Sudharshana
Motivational Interviewing: An Effective Tool for Teachers of Second and Foreign Language
41A. Arunkumar
Interview
Mahendra K. Mishra (MKM) talks to Professor Debi Prasanna Pattanayak (DPP)
46
Landmark
Assessing and Testing Learners’ Language Proficiency
52Geetha Durairajan
Book Reviews
Measuring L2 Proficiency: Perspectives from SLA
57Yasmeen Lukmani
Empowering Communication Skills
59Tista Bagchi
Suggested Readings
Research on Second Language Teacher Education: A Sociocultural Perspective on Professional Development
62Vandana Puri
Succeed in TEFL – Continuing Professional Development: Teaching English as a Second Language63
Key Topics in Second Language Acquisition
63Rajesh Kumar
Classroom Activities
Initiating Writing in French as a Foreign Language (FL)
Descriptive Writing Using Simple Sentences65
Shambhavi Singh
Writing a Familiar Story
Descriptive Writing69
Richa Goswami
Reports
Report of a Three-Day Workshop on the Orientation of a Course on Early Literacy Pedagogy for Teacher Educators71
Nivedita Bedadur
A Workshop on Story-telling and Pedagogical Potential of Stories73
Sharmila Rathee
Forthcoming Events