Use of Language Across the Secondary Curriculum

ISBN-13: 9780415165167 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 288 str.

Eve Bearne

Opis

This work offers practical advice and guidance on how children can be helped to use language to transform knowledge and experience into understanding across the curriculum, and thus become active learners. In addition to the core subjects, opportunities in music, PE, IT and design technology are examined in the context of the interrelationship between children, language and learning - children learning to use language, children using language to learn, and children learning about language. Chapters describe classroom practice as well as offering reflective sections on the interrelationships and processes of language and cognitive development. An integral part of this is the acknowledgement of differing learning styles, special educational needs, and issues of linguistic diversity and cultural difference.

Spis treści

Introduction: Language and literacy PART 1: Questions and issues: the social and cultural aspects of language 1. `Sticks and stones...': the power of language Ian Frowe 2. Talking in class: spoken language and effective learning Helen Nicholson 3. Narrative and the development of values Mary Earl PART II: Starting points: raising standards of literacy 4. Improving literacy: establishing a culture of change Eve Bearne 5. Learning through language: Wirral takes action Marie Stacey 6. Reading and Gender Nigel Spratt and Ruth Sturdy PART III Language and learning : the three Rs - rights, responsibilities and resources 7. Will it work? the language of interaction in maths Tim Rowland 8. Communicating knowledge and ideas: the use of language in science Elaine Wilson 9. Drama and historical writing at Key Stage 3 Paul Goalen PART IV Developing a critical eye 10. React, research, respond and reflect: language and learning in art Richard Hickman 11. The language of self-assessment: towards aesthetic understanding in music Liz Mellor 12. Using reflective practice to monitor and evaluate language and learning Gill Venn and Ian Terrell PART V Difficulties with literacy and learning 13. Making connections I: James - a pupil with literacy difficulties Avril Dawson 14. Making connections II: access to learning for pupils with special educational needs Peter Fifield 15. Language in use - from policy to practice Index

O autorze

Eve Bearne