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Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)
This student edition is available in two levels (Beginning and
Intermediate/Advanced), aligned to Reading/Writing Workshop
selections with additional scaffolding and support for speaking,
listening, reading, and writing. 1 Intermediate/Advanced Worktext
per grade and 6 unitized Beginner per grade (in a 4/c consumable).
This book is written for K-12 teachers and educators to understand
the school experiences and life journeys of the English Language
Learners (ELLs) through four Chinese ELLs by documenting their
transitional experiences into an American school. Traditionally,
Chinese students are perceived as the model minority in American
schools who are academically successful. Yet, this book provides a
new perspective by documenting the life journey and school
experiences of the four Chinese ELLs. The book gives a detailed
account of the four ELLs in transition from Chinese language and
culture into American school and culture. Interview, observation,
and documentary data at their homes and American school reflect
this transitional journey. The book helps K-12 teachers and
educators understand that Chinese students also come from different
family backgrounds and have different previous schooling
experiences. This will help teachers and educators better working
with Chinese and all ELLs who adapt the new school environment.
This book is reader-friendly and carefully crafted with six
chapters. Each chapter focuses on one Chinese ELL with genuine
research data. The book begins with an introduction to provide
basic information of the four ELLs and concludes with the final
chapter that provides an update on the ELL students. This book can
also be used as reading texts by college students in teacher
education and training programs. The book is targeted for the TESOL
organizations. The TESOL has one of the largest memberships with
over 12,000 members representing 156 countries (TESOL Brochure,
2017). This book also benefits various attendees of professional
education conferences.
Despite their removal from England's National Curriculum in 1988,
and claims of elitism, Latin and Greek are increasingly re-entering
the 'mainstream' educational arena. Since 2012, there have been
more students in state-maintained schools in England studying
classical subjects than in independent schools, and the number of
schools offering Classics continues to rise in the state-maintained
sector. The teaching and learning of Latin and Greek is not,
however, confined to the classroom: community-based learning for
adults and children is facilitated in newly established regional
Classics hubs in evenings and at weekends, in universities as part
of outreach, and even in parks and in prisons. This book
investigates the motivations of teachers and learners behind the
rise of Classics in the classroom and in communities, and explores
ways in which knowledge of classical languages is considered
valuable for diverse learners in the 21st century. The role of
classical languages within the English educational policy landscape
is examined, as new possibilities exist for introducing Latin and
Greek into school curricula. The state of Classics education
internationally is also investigated, with case studies presenting
the status quo in policy and practice from Australasia, North
America, the rest of Europe and worldwide. The priorities for the
future of Classics education in these diverse locations are
compared and contrasted by the editors, who conjecture what
strategies are conducive to success.
The use of literary texts in language classrooms is firmly
established, but new questions arise with the transfer to remote
teaching and learning. How do we teach literature online? How do
learners react to being taught literature online? Will new genres
emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic? Is the literary canon changing?
This volume celebrates the vitality of literary and pedagogic
responses to the pandemic and presents research into the phenomena
observed in this evolving field. One strand of the book discusses
literary outputs stimulated by the pandemic as well as past
pandemics. Another strand looks at the pedagogy of engaging
learners with literature online, examining learners of different
ages and of different proficiency levels and different educational
backgrounds, including teacher education. Finally, a third strand
looks at the affordances of various technologies for teaching
online and the way they interact with literature and with language
learning. The contributions in this volume take literature teaching
online away from static lecturing strategies, present numerous
options for online teaching, and provide research-based grounding
for the implementation of these pedagogies.
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