Teaching English to Second Language Learners in Academic Contexts

Teaching English to Second Language Learners in Academic Contexts
Author: Jonathan M. Newton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2018-02-07
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1317236548

Teaching English to Second Language Learners in Academic Contexts: Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking provides the fundamental knowledge that ESL and EFL teachers need to teach the four language skills. This foundational text, written by internationally renowned experts in the field, explains why skills-based teaching is at the heart of effective instruction in English for academic purposes (EAP) contexts. Each of the four main sections of the book helps readers understand how each skill—reading, writing, listening, and speaking—works and explains what research has to say about successful skill performance. Pedagogically focused chapters apply this information to principles for EAP curriculum design and to instructional activities and tasks adaptable in a wide range of language-learning contexts. Options for assessment and the role of digital technologies are considered for each skill, and essential information on integrated-skill instruction is provided. Moving from theory to practice, this teacher-friendly text is an essential resource for courses in TESOL programs, for in-service teacher-training seminars, and for practicing EAP teachers who want to upgrade their teaching abilities and knowledge bases.

Teaching English to Second Language Learners in Academic Contexts

Teaching English to Second Language Learners in Academic Contexts
Author: Jonathan M. Newton
Publisher: ESL & Applied Linguistics Prof
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2018
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781138647589

Introduction to reading. How reading comprehension works -- Building an effective reading curriculum: guiding principles -- Reading: instructional activities and assessment options -- Introduction to writing. Writing in a second language -- Building a writing curriculum and developing strategic writers -- Writing: instructional activities, feedback, and assessment options -- Introduction to listening. How listening comprehension works -- Building a listening curriculum -- Listening: instructional activities and assessment options -- Introduction to speaking. What's so special about speaking? -- Building an effective speaking curriculum: guiding principles -- Speaking: instructional activities and assessment options -- Language skill development and eap: a reflection on seven key themes

Teaching Young Second Language Learners

Teaching Young Second Language Learners
Author: Rhonda Oliver
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2018-06-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351369385

Adopting a learner-centred approach that places an emphasis on hands-on child SL methodology, this book illustrates the practices used to teach young second language learners in different classroom contexts: (1) English-as-an-Additional-Language-or-Dialect (EAL/D) – both intensive EAL/D and EAL/D in the mainstream (2) Language-Other-Than-English (LOTE) (3) Content-and-Language-Integrated-Learning (CLIL), (4) Indigenous (5) Foreign-Language (FL). It will be particularly useful to undergraduate teachers to build upon the literacy unit they undertake in the first years of their course to explore factors that constitute an effective child SL classroom and, in practical terms, how to develop such a classroom. The pedagogical strategies for teaching young language learners in the six chapters are firmly guided by research-based findings, enabling not only pre-service teachers but also experienced teachers to make informed choices of how to effectively facilitate the development of the target language, empowering them to assume an active and effective role of classroom practitioners.

Speaking in a Second Language

Speaking in a Second Language
Author: Rosa Alonso Alonso
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027264325

For millions of individuals all over the world, speaking in a second language is a daily activity. It is therefore important that research in applied linguistics should contribute empirically to the study of second language spoken interaction. The aim of this volume is to make such a contribution by providing research-based insights into current approaches to the teaching and learning of this skill. Two key dimensions define the papers included here−their novelty and scope. First, the book provides a novel approach to the study of speaking in a second language by combining recent findings in usage-based linguistics with current issues in teaching. Second, the chapters cover a range of theoretical perspectives, including sociolinguistic and interactional competence, gestures, dynamic systems theory and code-switching. The volume offers a contemporary analysis of research in second language speaking that will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, teachers and other professionals working in the fields of communication and applied linguistics.

Teaching English Language Learners

Teaching English Language Learners
Author: Michaela Colombo
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1412959659

This book prepares mainstream teachers to provide content instruction to English language learners.

Content-based Second Language Instruction

Content-based Second Language Instruction
Author: Donna Brinton
Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780472089178

In the Michigan Classics Edition of Content-Based Second Language Instruction, the authors provide updates on the field of CBI in second language acquisition since 1989. While the core of the book remains the same, new features discuss important CBI-related research and modifications to the pedagogy in the past many years. Content-Based Second Language Instruction, Michigan Classics Edition, now includes: a new preface a glossary of key terms an updated bibliography an epilogue highlighting the major developments in the field since 1989.

Second Language Learning Motivation in a European Context: The Case of Hungary

Second Language Learning Motivation in a European Context: The Case of Hungary
Author: Kata Csizér
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2021-01-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030644626

This book provides an overview of second language (L2) motivation research in a specific European context: Hungary, which has proved to offer an important laboratory for such research, as a number of major political changes over the past 30 years have created a changing background for L2 learning in an increasingly globalized world. The book provides an overview of theoretical research on L2 motivation, together with detailed information on large-scale L2 motivation studies in Hungary. Further, it presents a meta-analysis of the most important investigations, and qualitative data on teachers’ views regarding success in L2 learning. In turn, the interdisciplinary nature of L2 motivation is taken into account and relevant antecedent constructs to L2 motivation are investigated. Lastly, the book outlines possible future directions for L2 motivation research.

Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners

Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners
Author: Mariana Pacheco
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2019-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1641135093

The purpose of Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners: Theoretical Insights, Policies, Pedagogies, and Practices is to bring together educational researchers and practitioners who have implemented, documented, or examined policies, pedagogies, and practices in and out of classrooms and in real and virtual contexts that are in some way transforming what we know about the extent to which emergent bilinguals (EBs) learn and achieve in educational settings. In the following chapters, scholars and researchers identify both (1) the current state of schooling for EBs, from their perspective, and (2) the particular ways that policies, pedagogies, and/or practices transform schooling as it currently exists for EBs in discernible ways based on their scholarship and research. Drawing on current and seminal research in fields including second language acquisition, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and educational linguistics, contributing authors draw on complementary theoretical, methodological, and philosophical frameworks that attend to the social, cultural, political, and ideological dimensions of being and becoming bi/multilingual and bi/multiliterate in schools and in the United States. In sum, we are deeply committed to asserting hope, possibility, and potential to discussions and discourses about bi/multilingual students. We value the urgency around improving the conditions, experiences, and circumstances in which they are learning languages and academic content. Our aim is to highlight perspectives, conceptualizations, orientations, and ideologies that disrupt and contest legacies of deficit thinking, linguistic purism, language standardization, and racism and the racialization of ethnolinguistic minorities.

Higher Education and Second Language Learning

Higher Education and Second Language Learning
Author: Rosario Hernández
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Education, Higher
ISBN: 9783034317344

In this volume, academics involved in teaching second languages at university level describe how they have embraced the challenges involved in facilitating student learning. It sets out practical ideas which can be implemented in everyday contexts, while ensuring that pedagogical practice is underpinned by the relevant theoretical literature.