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Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy
A Guide for ESL/ EFL Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2010
Conversation and speaking skills are the key building blocks for much of language learning. This text increases teachers’ awareness about spoken language and suggests ways of applying that knowledge to teaching second-language interaction skills based on insights from Conversation Analysis (CA).
Conversation...
Inclusive Primary Teaching
A critical approach to equality and special educational needs and disability
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This is an invaluable and fully updated text on inclusive practice for all primary trainees and teachers and for those working towards the National Award SEN Co-ordination. It provides an equality- and child-centred approach to inclusion, combining both theory and practice while promoting critical...
Race, Culture, and Identities in Second Language Education
Exploring Critically Engaged Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
The concept and construct of race is often implicitly yet profoundly connected to issues of culture and identity. Meeting an urgent need for empirical and conceptual research that specifically explores critical issues of race, culture, and identities in second language education, the key questions...
Enriching Esol Pedagogy
Readings and Activities for Engagement, Reflection, and Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2002
Enriching ESOL Pedagogy: Readings and Activities for Engagement, Reflection, and Inquiry is a collection of thought-provoking articles and activities designed to engage practicing and prospective ESOL teachers in an ongoing process of reflecting on, critically examining, and investigating theory and...
Teaching Young Adult Literature
Integrating, Implementing, and Re-Imagining the Common Core
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
The authors who contributed to this text believe that young adult literature (YAL) can meet the Common Core’s push to include literacy across content areas, as well as meet the standards in creative and effective ways. This text is intended to give educators a resource to aid them in creating a...
Generation 1.5 Meets College Composition
Issues in the Teaching of Writing To U.S.-Educated Learners of ESL
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
An increasing number of students graduate from U.S. high schools and enter college while still in the process of learning English. This group--the "1.5 generation"--consisting of immigrants and U.S. residents born abroad as well as indigenous language minority groups, is rapidly becoming...
Transnational Writing Education
Theory, History, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Arguing that writing teachers need to enable students to recognize, negotiate with, deconstruct, and transcend national, racial, ethnic, and linguistic boundaries, this volume proposes a "transnational" framework as an alternative approach to literacy education and as a vital component to cultivating...
The Happy Professor
How to Teach Undergraduates and Feel Good About It
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
Coplin uses his 50+ years of undergraduate teaching experience to present a series of roles, strategies and tactics to help professors prepare undergraduates for life after college. Through his courses and a highly successful undergraduate program, which he designed in the 1970s and still leads, Policy...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This volume brings together a multiplicity of voices--both theoretical and practical--on the complex politics, challenges, and strategies of educating students--in North America and worldwide--who are speakers of diverse or nonstandard varieties of English, creoles, and hybrid varieties of English,...
English for the Children
Mandated by the People, Skewed by Politicians and Special Interests
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Silicon Valley software entrepreneur Ron Unz took on the education establishment, both major political parties, the ACLU, and several activist groups with his "English for the Children" movement that began in 1996 and ended on Election Day 2002. His campaign to dismantle bilingual education...
Language for Learning in the Primary School
A practical guide for supporting pupils with language and communication difficulties across the curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language for Learning in the Primary School is the long awaited second edition of Language for Learning, first published in 2004 and winner of the NASEN/TES Book Award for Teaching and Learning in 2005. This handbook has become an indispensable resource, packed full of practical suggestions on how...
Writing Strategies That Work
Do This--Not That!
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Learn the ten keys to effective writing instruction! In this dynamic book, bestselling author Lori G. Wilfong takes you through today’s best practices for teaching writing and how to implement them in the classroom. She also points out practices that should be avoided, helping you figure out how...
With Literacy and Justice for All
Rethinking the Social in Language and Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
The third edition of With Literacy and Justice for All: Rethinking the Social in Language and Education continues to document Carole Edelsky's long involvement with socially critical, holistic approaches to the everyday problems and possibilities facing teachers of language and literacy. This book...
Community Engagement Findings Across the Disciplines
Applying Course Content to Community Needs
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
This book is a reference for administrators and educators at institutions of higher learning who are thinking about taking serious steps to link their educational mission to helping their surrounding communities. Various research findings across the disciplines in higher education about integrating...