User:Kostad

About Me

I'm interested in ESL pedagogy, language and literature generally, history, technology, psychology, and many other fields/topics. Under various other accounts, I've been involved with Wikipedia for several years now - mainly doing proofreading and occasionally adding details to existing articles.

Current Project

Now that I have enough items in the following template, I'm going to start authoring articles that need to be created and revising/editing others. I'll also add items to the template as I find them. Input welcome!

Kostad (talk) 12:29, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

v t e Language education
Methodology	Audio-lingual method Automatic Language Growth Communicative language teaching Comprehension approach Community language learning Computer-assisted language learning Content-based instruction Direct Method Dogme language teaching Extensive reading Focal Skills Grammar–translation method Language immersion Lexical approach Michel Thomas Method Natural approach Silent way Suggestopedia Task-based language learning Total physical response TPR Storytelling Vocabulary development Whole language
Teaching techniques	Mother tongue mirroring Sandwich technique Back-chaining Dictogloss Information gap
Key concepts	Bilingual dictionary Critical period hypothesis English as a lingua franca Interlanguage Language transfer Second-language acquisition World Englishes
Assessment	Language assessment Washback effect Corrective feedback Competency evaluation DIALANG IELTS TOEFL TOEIC UCLES
Programs and organizations	English as a second or foreign language English for specific purposes TESOL
Key people	Betty Azar H. Douglas Brown Pit Corder Jim Cummins Rod Ellis Stephen Krashen Scott Thornbury
Statistics	List of countries where English is an official language List of countries by English-speaking population Most commonly learned foreign languages in the U.S. EF English Proficiency Index