Discourse analysis applied to english language teaching in colombian contexts: theory and methods

Discourse analysis applied to english language teaching in colombian contexts: theory and methods
Author: Wilder Yesid, Escobar Alméciga
Publisher: Universidad del Bosque
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2016-02-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9587390628

By moving away from instrumental views of language, the book Discourse Analysis Applied English Language Teaching in Colombian Contexts: Theory and Methods situates the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language along a broader spectrum of socio-culturally elaborated discursive dynamics. To offer this complex and multifaceted perspective, it presents five discourse studies informed by diverse methodologies, and aims to provoke further and deeper considerations around the issue of English teaching and learning in Colombian contexts. Similarly, this work also exemplifies academic community building where different institutions, researchers and students have partnered to inquire into, understand, and share their findings regarding EFL teaching and learning in Colombia.

Discourse

Discourse
Author: Guy Cook
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1989-06-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780194371407

Discourse analysis is the study of spoken and written language in its social and psychological context. This book explains the relevant theory, and applies it to classroom activities designed to improve students' discourse skills. The teacher is then shown how these activities may be further developed in specific teaching situations.

Classroom Discourse Analysis

Classroom Discourse Analysis
Author: Betsy Rymes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2015-12-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317688023

This second edition of Classroom Discourse Analysis continues to make techniques widely used in the field of discourse analysis accessible to a broad audience and illustrates their practical application in the study of classroom talk, ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in discourse analysis, applied linguistics, and anthropology and education. Grounded in a unique tripartite "dimensional approach," individual chapters investigate interactional resources that model forms of discourse analysis teachers may practice in their own classrooms while other chapters provide students with a thorough understanding of how to actually collect and analyse data. The presence of a number of pedagogical features, including activities and exercises and a comprehensive glossary help to enhance students‘ understanding of these key tools in classroom discourse analysis research. Features new to this edition reflect current developments in the field, including: increased coverage of peer interaction in the classroom greater connecting analysis to curricular and policy mandates and standards-based reform movements sample excerpts from actual student classroom discourse analysis assignments a new chapter on the repertoire approach, an increasingly popular method of analysis of particular relevance to today’s multilingual classrooms

Discourse in English Language Education

Discourse in English Language Education
Author: John Flowerdew
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2013
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 041549964X

Discourse in English Language Education is designed to introduce students to the major concepts and issues in discourse analysis and its applications to language education, drawing on the key research from a range of approaches. This will be essential reading for upper undergraduates and postgraduates with interests in applied linguistics, TESOL and mother tongue language education.

Discourse in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Classrooms

Discourse in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Classrooms
Author: Christiane Dalton-Puffer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2007-09-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027291934

The label CLIL stands for classrooms where a foreign language (English) is used as a medium of instruction in content subjects. This book provides a first in-depth analysis of the kind of communicative abilities which are embodied in such CLIL classrooms. It examines teacher and student talk at secondary school level from different discourse-analytic angles, taking into account the interpersonal pragmatics of classroom discourse and how school subjects are talked into being during lessons. The analysis shows how CLIL classroom interaction is strongly shaped by its institutional context, which in turn conditions the ways in which students experience, use and learn the target language. The research presented here suggests that CLIL programmes require more explicit language learning goals in order to fully exploit their potential for furthering the learners’ appropriation of a foreign language as a medium of learning.

Language Education in Multilingual Colombia

Language Education in Multilingual Colombia
Author: Norbella Miranda
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2022-08-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000610098

This collection brings together cutting-edge research and theoretical discussions on the linguistic, cultural, and political forces that shape multilingual Colombia, highlighting the country’s unique sociolinguistic landscape and offering new insights into multilingualism in the Global South. The volume outlines the changing dynamics of multilingualism in Colombia, where Spanish, Spanish-based and English-based Creoles, the linguistic and cultural heritages of Indigenous communities and migrant groups, and the prevalence of English in language education policy intersect. The chapters explore the implications of policy making on language policy discourse and especially on language teacher education for those working on the margins in urban and rural areas. They also explore existing understandings of interculturality and the work of academics and local communities in minority language revitalization efforts. Problematizing essentialized views of language and culture and raising awareness around the complex relationship between language, identity, and interculturality in the Global South, this book will be of interest to scholars in multilingualism, sociolinguistics, language education, teacher education, and applied linguistics.

Classroom Discourse Analysis

Classroom Discourse Analysis
Author: Frances Christie
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1441179593

This book offers a model of classroom discourse analysis that uses systemic functional linguistic theory and associated genre theory to develop a view of classroom episodes as 'curriculum genres', some of which operate in turn as part of larger unities of work called 'curriculum macrogenres'. Drawing on Bernstein's work, Christie argues that two registers operate in pedagogic discourse: a regulative register, to do with the goals and directions of the discourse; and an instructional register, to do with the particular 'content' or knowledge at issue. Each can be shown to be realized in distinctive clusters of choices in the grammar. The operation of the regulative register determines the initiation, pacing, sequencing and evaluation of the overall pedagogic activity. The book sets out the its methodology in detail by reference to a number of classroom texts, and a range of school subjects. Overall, schools emerge as sites of symbolic control in a culture.

Social research applied to english language teaching in Colombian contexts

Social research applied to english language teaching in Colombian contexts
Author: Wilder Yesid, Escobar Alméciga
Publisher: Universidad del Bosque
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2018-07-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9587391284

Within the diverse Colombian context, the issues concerning the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) call for theories and methodologies entering into the socio-political realms of influence which shape the dynamics of the language-acquisition process. As such, Social Research Applied to English Language Teaching in Colombian Contexts: Theory and Methods takes into consideration a comprehensive analysis of five social phenomena, interpreting their impact, and prompting reflection on alternative strategies for development and growth within the EFL social environment. However, this work not only embodies characterizations, theory, and reflections within yhe área of social research, it also exemplifies academic community building in which students, alumni, professors, University researchers, and outside research collaborators have come together to inquire about, understand, and share the findings of innovative research regarding the complex language acquisition dynamics in EFL social contexts.

Approaches to Discourse Analysis

Approaches to Discourse Analysis
Author: Cynthia Gordon
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2021
Genre: Discourse analysis
ISBN: 1647121108

Approaches to Discourse Analysis demonstrates the importance of the diverse perspectives that various approaches to discourse bring to bear on human communication. Linguists and other readers interested in the interplay of language and culture will gain new insight and understanding from this rich compilation.