Wilga Rivers (13 April 1919 - 23 June 2007) was an Australian academic and writer. She was a Professor Emerita of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She studied and wrote about teaching languages. Rivers was an early supporter of the change from the audiolingual method to more communicative and interactive language teaching. Rivers was born in Melbourne, Australia and died in Watertown, Massachusetts.[1]
- "The Psychologist and the Foreign-Language Teacher". University of Chicago Press, 1964.
- "Teaching Foreign-Language Skills". University of Chicago Press, 1968 & 1981.
- "A Practical Guide to the Teaching of English as a Second or Foreign Language". Oxford University Press, 1978.
- "Communicating Naturally In A Second Language". Cambridge University Press, 1983.
- "Interactive Language Teaching". Cambridge University Press, 1987.
English language teaching |
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Approaches |
- Communicative approach
- Comprehension approach
- Dogme language teaching
- Lexical approach
- Natural approach
- Sociocultural learning theory
- Whole language learning
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Methods |
- Audio-lingual method
- Community language learning
- CALL
- Content-based instruction
- CLIL
- Direct Method
- Extensive reading
- Grammar-translation method
- Language immersion
- Pimsleur system
- PPP
- Silent way
- Suggestopaedia
- Task-based language learning
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Techniques |
- Back-chaining
- Dictogloss
- Jigsaw techniques
- Shadowing
- Total physical response
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Key concepts |
- Critical period hypothesis
- English as a lingua franca
- Input hypothesis
- Fossilization
- Interlanguage
- Language transfer
- Learnability/teachability hypothesis
- Needs analysis
- Output hypothesis
- Second-language acquisition
- Syllabus
- World Englishes
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Professional organizations | |
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Important people | |
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