Teaching Language in Context

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-557533-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 646 g

Teaching Language in Context takes the purposes for which language is used in different content areas as the starting point for teaching literacy. It recognises that students' understandings are constructed in language and that each area of the curriculum uses language in a different way. Success in each subject requires students to acquire the specialised language of the curriculum area; that is, the genres and language features through which the content is
expressed. In order to successfully develop students' language for curriculum success, teachers must identify the language demands of the different curriculum areas. This textbook supports pre-service teachers to do this while familiarising them with the different curriculum areas.

Zielgruppe

Pre-service teachers studying a language teaching unit within their education degree

Autoren/Hrsg.

Derewianka, Beverly

Jones, Pauline

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Über Autor(innen)

Beverly Derewianka is Professor of Language Education at the University of Wollongong, where she is Director of the Centre for Research in Language and Literacy. Following several years teaching in primary and secondary schools, she became a teacher educator in the fields of TESOL and literacy education.

Pauline Jones is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong. Pauline teaches in the areas of language, literacy and TESOL in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Before moving into teacher education in 1995, she worked as a language curriculum consultant, ESL and classroom teacher and a community development worker in underprivileged urban environments.