A Comprehensive Language Coaching Handbook

Throughout A Comprehensive Language Coaching Handbook, Gabriella Kovács looks at how coaching skills and tools can be app

By using A Comprehensive Language Coaching Handbook: Theory and Practice you will:

• improve your understanding of language coaching and its relation to language training and teaching practices;
• be able to identify specific target clientele and situations when language coaching can support best;
• be able to recognise when and how to apply language coaching practices;
• develop an understanding of language coaching and related fields as an evidence-based framework;
• have an understanding of how language coaching can be adapted in language teaching frameworks;
• be able to reflect on your teaching and experiential learning at the end of each chapter.

This book also:

• provides clear examples of language coaching tools and coaching interventions (explaining how they can boost language learner confidence, success and autonomy)
• offers case studies in which the full language coaching process can be seen;
• provides a base for creating personalised action plans;
• gives specific coaching and language coaching models to adapt for the classroom;
• shares insights from international language coaching practitioners;
• look at mindsets in language professionals teaching and their learners' approach to learning and provide ways to reframe.