Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Performance Goals -- Acknowledgements -- Biographical Notes on the Contributing Authors -- LEVEL 1: EARLY STUDENT COMPREHENSION AND RESPONSE -- 1 Strategies for Beginning Listening Comprehension -- 2 Increasing Comprehension Skills Through Listening and Asking Questions -- 3 Teaching the Receptive Skills at the Basic Level -- LEVEL 2: CONTEXT-BASED COMPREHENSION AND INTERACTION -- 4 Developing Comprehension and Interaction Skills with Idiomatic Expressions -- 5 Strategies for Developing Communicative Competence with Emphasis on Comprehensible Input -- LEVEL 3: MEANING-BASED COMMUNICATION AND PROBLEM-SOLVING -- 6 Integrating Communication and Social Skills Using Ensemble Techniques -- 7 Communicative Strategies for Intermediate Level Second Language Classes -- LEVEL 4: GROUP WORK AND THE COOPERATIVE APPROACH -- 8 Magic or Chaos: Task-based Group Work -- 9 One Peer Response Group in an ESL Writing Class: A Case Study -- LEVEL 5: REFINING LITERACY SKILLS -- 10 Correction of Speech Errors: Some Suggestions -- 11 Collaborative Strategies for Narrative Structure -- 12 Writing a Short Story Through Sharing and Reflecting -- EVALUATION -- Oral Communication Assessment and the Portfolio Concept -- Index