Considering Emotions in Critical English Language Teaching: Theories and Praxis
Groundbreaking in the ways it makes new connections among emotion, critical theory, and pedagogy, this book explores the role of students’ and teachers’ emotions in college instruction, illuminating key literacy and identity issues faced by immigrant students learning English in postsecondary institutions.
Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Second Language Learning and Teaching
The volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of key issues in second language learning and teaching, adopting as a point of reference both psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives.
Teaching and Learning: A Model for Academic and Social Cognition
Learners are multi-faceted, unique people. Discovering the whole individual is incumbent upon realizing the teaching/learning environments, common social and societal realities, and belief and value systems respective of academic and socio-societal factors that establish who one is as a learner and teacher. In Learning and Teaching, the authors offer practical strategies for interactive instruction to facilitate optimum learning. This book addresses theoretical framework that includes the relationship between thoughts and feelings, the effect of past esperiences on present and future behaviors, universal connectivity, and a strong understanding of who one is as a teacher and learner.
Scaffolding Literacy: An Integrated and Sequential Approach to Teaching Reading, Spelling and Writing
Scaffolding Literacy describes an alternative approach to literacy teaching in primary schools based on the principles of explicit teaching regarding how authors use words to convey meaning. The book provides a detailed description of the scaffolding literacy teaching sequence and related strategies developed at the University of Canberra (Australia) over two decades. It explains why the scaffolding literacy approach enables learners to understand the reading, language studies, and writing tasks assigned to them in schools better.
Foreign Language Teaching in Asia and Beyond: Current Perspectives and Future Directions (Studies in Second and Foreign Language Education)
This two part book focuses on the science and art of foreign language teaching in Asia and beyond. Part 1, "Theoretical foundation and research", examines theoretical and empirical research that has or will shape language teaching. Studies draw from work in linguistics and second language acquisition research. "Classroom practice and evaluation studies", part 2, turns to new and innovative developments in curricular and classroom practice, using qualitative and quantitative approaches and drawing from theoretical research in part one.
