<P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">This cutting-edge sourcebook for teachers provides a comprehensive vision of effective second language teaching and explores ways to create meaningful interaction leading to emergent participatory language teaching. The fourth edition of <B> <I> <B>Making It Happen</B> </I> </B>presents a cyclic approach to theory and practice, in which theory and practice constantly inform each other.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Features</B> </P> <UL> <LI>Strategies for teaching children, adolescents, and adults from beginning to advanced levels <LI>Am emphasis on peer- and self-evaluation in simulated and real classrooms <LI>A practical reservoir for teachers as they develop their own methodologies and local practice <LI>Discussions of issues critical to program development, lesson design, materials selection, video use, teacher research, and professional development (including SIOP) <LI>Case studies from kindergarten through university level to stimulate professional dialog</LI> </UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>New to This Edition</B> </P> <UL> <LI>Separate chapters on implicit/explicit teaching and on sociocultural/cognitive synthesis <LI>Sections on form-focus strategies, World Englishes, research directions, corpus analysis, dialogical assessment, and the Acoma heritage language program <LI>Updated research that reflects influential thinking for the 21st century</LI> </UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Also by Patricia A. Richard-Amata (with Marguerite Ann Snow):</P> <I> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Academic Success for English Language Learners: Strategies for K-12 Mainstream Teachers</P> </I>