Teacher support teams are school-based, problem-solving groups which function to support pupils indirectly through teacher collaboration. The principle behind these support teams is to make the most of the knowledge and skills of teachers already in a school. This handbook offers training information and activities useful in the setting up, running and evaluation of this provision, where teachers can exchange their knowledge of different teaching approaches and methods, and seek peer support for problems they have experienced in the classroom. The book provides useful timetables,...
Teacher support teams are school-based, problem-solving groups which function to support pupils indirectly through teacher collaboration. The principl...
This volume looks at the interactions of collaborating teachers in multilingual classrooms and how these impact on what counts as knowledge in the secondary school classroom. It also looks at how policy statements and ideologies around multilingualism position teachers and learners in particular ways. A linguistic ethnographic approach is taken in the study, which considers the discourses of whole class and small group teaching and learning. Chapters consider the relation between different languages, different pedagogues and different teacher identities in the secondary school classroom....
This volume looks at the interactions of collaborating teachers in multilingual classrooms and how these impact on what counts as knowledge in the ...
What does it mean to young people to be multilingual? What do multilingual speakers' linguistic resources mean to them? Are they happy to discard their languages, and assimilate to English, or are there other issues at stake? Do communities set out to ensure that their languages are maintained and passed on to the next generation, and if so, how, and why? What if speakers appropriate and make use of linguistic resources not typically associated with their 'ethnic' or 'heritage' group? Is there consensus about the role and value of particular sets of linguistic resources, or is this...
What does it mean to young people to be multilingual? What do multilingual speakers' linguistic resources mean to them? Are they happy to discard t...
Approaches to Teaching Linguistic Minority Students provides an invaluable and accessible resource for working with EAL students. It brings together the international experiences and expertise of a team of distinguished language educators who explore a range of teaching approaches and provide professionally-grounded practical advice. The chapters cover themes, references and pedagogic concerns common to teachers across the globe.
This book will be of use to individual teachers who want to extend their knowledge and practice, and also as a set text for professional...
Approaches to Teaching Linguistic Minority Students provides an invaluable and accessible resource for working with EAL students. It ...
This volume on Ecology of Language presents chapters on ecologies of language, literacy and learning. The subject of language ecology is diversity within socio-political settings where the processes of language use create, reflect and challenge hierarchies and hegemonies. The volume covers the following topics: Historical and theoretical perspectives, language ecologies of selected countries and regions, focus on Asia, Australia, Africa, language ecologies of dispersed and diasporic communities, esp. Chinese, Malay, Moroccan, classroom language ecologies in multilingual contexts, language...
This volume on Ecology of Language presents chapters on ecologies of language, literacy and learning. The subject of language ecology is diversity wit...
This is an engaging interdisciplinary guide to the unique role of language within ethnography. The book provides a philosophical overview of the field alongside practical support for designing and developing your own ethnographic research. It demonstrates how to build and develop arguments and engages with practical issues such as ethics, transcription and impact. There are chapter-long case studies based on real research that will explain key themes and help you create and analyse your own linguistic data. Drawing on the authors' experience they outline the practical,...
This is an engaging interdisciplinary guide to the unique role of language within ethnography. The book provides a philosophical overview of ...
This is an engaging interdisciplinary guide to the unique role of language within ethnography. The book provides a philosophical overview of the field alongside practical support for designing and developing your own ethnographic research. It demonstrates how to build and develop arguments and engages with practical issues such as ethics, transcription and impact. There are chapter-long case studies based on real research that will explain key themes and help you create and analyse your own linguistic data. Drawing on the authors' experience they outline the practical,...
This is an engaging interdisciplinary guide to the unique role of language within ethnography. The book provides a philosophical overview of ...
This volume presents evidence about how we understand communication in changing times, and proposes that such understandings may contribute to the development of pedagogy for teaching and learning. It expands current debates on multilingualism, asking which signs are in use and in action, and what are their social, political, and historical implications. The volume s starting-point is Bakhtin s heteroglossia, a key concept in understanding the tensions, conflicts, and multiple voices within, among, and between those signs. The chapters provide illuminating accounts of language practices as...
This volume presents evidence about how we understand communication in changing times, and proposes that such understandings may contribute to the ...
