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Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning
This wide-ranging survey of issues in intercultural language teaching and learning covers everything from core concepts to program evaluation, and advocates a fluid, responsive approach to teaching language that reflects its central role in fostering intercultural understanding. Includes coverage of theoretical issues defining language, culture, and communication, as well as practice-driven issues such as classroom interactions, technologies, programs, and language assessment Examines systematically the components of language teaching: language itself, meaning, culture, learning, communicating, and assessments, and puts them in social and cultural context Features numerous examples throughout, drawn from various languages, international contexts, and frameworks Incorporates a decade of in-depth research and detailed documentation from the authors’ collaborative work with practicing teachers Provides a much-needed addition to the sparse literature on intercultural aspects of language education
Languages Professional Learning
The Community Language Schools SA Foundation Course is designed for those teaching in a language and culture program offered through a community language school in South Australia. Completion of the Foundation Course is a requirement for all teachers intending to teach in a community language program.The Foundation Course aims to introduce the fundamental theoretical and practical understandings and ideas that will enable teachers to teach the language and culture in their community language program. The program comprises the following sessions:?Session 1: The context of language/s teaching and learning in South Australia?Session 2: Views of language teaching and learning?Session 3: Principles of effective teaching and learning?Session 4: Knowing and connecting with your learners?Session 5: Classroom interaction - 1?Session 6: Classroom interaction - 2?Session 7: Teaching in action?Session 8: Planning and programming - 1?Session 9: Planning and programming - 2?Session 10: Assessment, reporting and evaluation
Languages Professional Learning
Community Language Schools SA offers a suite of 4 professional learning programs for teachers of community languages: ?Foundation ?Intermediate ?Advanced ?Leadership For each course, specific goals, objectives and materials were developed. For the Advanced Course, the materials are provided as a handbook that includes all interactions and support materials needed for each session. It is assumed that the courses are facilitated, with opportunities for discussion and sharing of understandings and practices that comes from experiences in different languages.PrinciplesThe following principles have underpinned the design and development of the set of the professional learning programs:?Designed a...
Making a Difference
The rapid worldwide growth in migration, asylum seekers and refugees and reactions to this, the expansion of media and technology, political and economic changes at international and local levels are both challenges and opportunities for research in applied linguistics. This book presents 23 articles by key researchers exploring the ways in which applied linguistics can play a role making a difference in people’s lives. It is a timely publication when access to powerful discourses is increasingly an issue for many of the world’s populations. The book showcases the contribution of applied linguists working in such areas as language teaching and learning, policy development, discourse anal...
Communicating with Asia
In today's global world, where Asia is an increasing area of focus, it is vital to explore what it means to 'understand' Asian cultures through English and other languages. This volume presents new research on English in Asia, alongside Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi-Urdu, Malay, Russian and other languages.
Teaching and Learning Chinese in Schools
This book presents the principles of quality teaching in Chinese, as exemplified in case studies of primary and secondary school classrooms. Drawing on data from five Australian schools, the authors identify the key practices necessary to produce a quality learning experience for students. The book offers a thorough grounding in the issues involved in teaching different age groups, and many practical strategies, including a comprehensive overview of digital technologies for teaching and learning Chinese. It will provide a valuable resource for students and scholars of applied linguistics, in addition to supporting teacher training and professional development.
English as a Lingua Franca in Teacher Education
A lingua franca perspective into English language teaching in Brazil has only recently take flight. As an emerging economy, the country faces enormous challenges when it comes to language education in schools, where English has traditionally been taught as a foreign language. This collection brings the perspectives of academics and language practitioners in their efforts to incorporate an ELF approach into teacher education, thus offering a voice sorely missed in the international community interested in developing new approaches to English in a global world.
