Learning Chichewa: Teacher's Manual. Peace Corps Language Handbook Series.

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162

Peace Corps, Washington, DC.

African Languages; Class Activities; Cultural Activities; Drills (Practice); Language Tests; Postsecondary Education; Second Language Instruction; Teaching Guides; Uncommonly Taught Languages; Vocabulary Development

This manual is designed to accompany the Peace Corps student's texts in the Chichewa language. It contains three parts: (1) a discussion of basic concepts in language teaching and learning, including theoretical background, major language teaching methods, language acquisition, and sociolinguistics; (2) an outline of the materials and methods that are useful in presenting them, including teaching devices for use with the communication/culture lessons and examples of grammatical exercise types; and (3) notes on individual lessons in the series. The last section contains additional exercises and quizzes. (AMH)

1982

ED206159