A Brief Overview for the Book Psychology for Language Teachers
From the beginning of the 21st century,educational psychology has been placed great importance in the educational field.However,a few people have been concerned about psychology for language teachers in foreign language teaching.Aiming to provide relatively recent developmental trends of psychology for language teachers,the book Psychology for Language Teachers by Marin Williams & Robert L.Burden offered comprehensive survey of different psychological theories and methods.The authors applied social interactionism which they thought encompassed the key elements of learning and teaching.The paper is aimed to generalize and summarize its theoretical frame work of theories and some issues and related methods of teaching and learning from the psychological perspectives.
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