Language Learning and Teacher Education

A Sociocultural Approach

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2004
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-85359-763-3 (ISBN)

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This book explores sociocultural theories as they relate to language and literacy teaching and learning, and to professional preparation and development for language teachers. The chapters weave research, theory and practice together as they articulate and explore theoretical perspectives through detailed descriptions and analyses of practices.

This book explores sociocultural theories as they relate to language and literacy teaching and learning, and to professional preparation and development for language teachers. Language teachers and language teacher educators weave research, theory and practice together as they articulate and explore theoretical perspectives through detailed descriptions and analyses of practices.

Margaret R. Hawkins is a faculty member and Director of the ESL and bilingual teacher education and graduate programs in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her scholarship and teaching are in the areas of sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, qualitative research methodology, literacy, and critical applied linguistics. Research interests include language teacher education, language and literacy development for young English language learners in schools, and cross-cultural perspectives on home/school relations.

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Author Biographies 2004

Part 1: Introduction

Margaret R. Hawkins: Introduction

Part 2: Sociocultural Perspectives on Language and Learning

1 James Paul Gee: Learning Language as a Matter of Learning Social Languages within Discourses

Part 3: Sociocultural Approaches to Language Teacher Education

2 Pippa Stein: Re-sourcing Resources: Pedagogy, History and Loss in a Johannesburg Classroom

3 Jerri Willett and Sarah Miller: Transforming the Discourses of Teaching and Learning: Rippling Waters and Shifting Sands

4 Margaret R. Hawkins: Social Apprenticeships Through Mediated Learning in Language Teacher Education

Part 4: The Uptake of Sociocultural Approaches in Language Education

5 Jennifer Miller: Social Languages and Schooling: The Uptake of Sociocultural Perspectives in School

6 Alison Beynon: Tinker, Tailor, Teacher, Text: Using a Multiliteracies Approach to Remediate Reading

Part 5: Implications of Sociocultural Perspectives for Language Teacher Education

7 Donald Freeman: Language, Sociocultural Theory, and L2 Teacher Education: Examining the Technology of Subject Matter and the Architecture of Instruction

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.11.2004
Reihe/Serie	Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
Verlagsort	Bristol
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	352 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-85359-763-5 / 1853597635
ISBN-13	978-1-85359-763-3 / 9781853597633
Zustand	Neuware