Scaffolding Academic Literacy With Low Proficiency Users Of English

Author : Simon Green
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030390950
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scaffolding Academic Literacy with Low-Proficiency Users of English written by Simon Green and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the development of academic literacy in low-proficiency users of English in the Middle East. It highlights the challenges faced by students entering undergraduate education in the region, and the strategies used by teachers to overcome them. The author focuses on a large-scale undergraduate teacher programme run in Oman by the University of Leeds, providing clear pointers both for future research and effective practice. He also explores the implications of his findings for countries beyond the Gulf Cooperation Council, demonstrating how international participation in UK HE could be much wider. This book will appeal to students and scholars with an interest in academic literacies and English for Academic Purposes.

Author : Mark Wyatt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000868001
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English as a Medium of Instruction on the Arabian Peninsula written by Mark Wyatt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in the Arab Gulf states, the authors consider both sociolinguistic and pedagogical perspectives, and explore practical implications. This edited volume features chapters covering how teachers are negotiating the linguistic challenges posed by EMI; issues of ownership, choice and agency; the scaffolding of academic literacies; how to support the development of content teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge in EMI settings as well as the benefits of a bilingual education. Chapter authors all have extensive local experience that they draw upon reflectively in their writing. Policy-makers, teachers and teacher educators wondering how they can best balance the need to develop competence in English in students of all ages on the Arabian Peninsula in a globalizing world, together with the concern to nurture Arabic language, culture and identity, will gain rich insights from this book. Postgraduates and researchers exploring issues surrounding EMI, both locally and internationally, will benefit from the arguments presented in this volume.

Author : Andrzej Cirocki
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031426754
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continuing Professional Development of TESOL Practitioners written by Andrzej Cirocki and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook serves as a current and comprehensive resource on effective Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for TESOL practitioners in various contexts around the world at various stages in their careers. The practices described by language teachers, teacher educators and professional development providers in this book offer a vision of critical issues to consider when designing and evaluating professional development opportunities. Effective professional development requires careful planning informed by the realities of the local context and the specific needs of the teachers. This textbook is designed to support those who provide professional development opportunities by presenting global perspectives on professional development for a range of teaching contexts at different language levels. Each chapter includes a discussion about the type and source of support available in the given context, as well as a reflection on the challenges that exist for both teachers and CPD providers. These insights serve to help CPD designers and providers as they problematize teacher development opportunities in their context. Each chapter concludes with a synthesis of the strengths of CPD in the local context and a discussion of future directions that target opportunities for transformation and improvement. This volume celebrates teachers, teacher educators and CPD providers around the world. High-impact practices are presented from fifteen countries: Cameroon, Canada, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malta, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Qatar, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and the United States of America.

Author : Daniela Coelho
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000822443
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plurilingual Pedagogy in the Arabian Peninsula written by Daniela Coelho and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores plurilingual education in the unique English medium instruction (EMI) context of the Arabian Peninsula. The book argues that integrating a plurilingual pedagogy alongside current EMI in the region could enhance students’ learning and contribute to a language policy that embraces linguistic diversity while fostering regional identity. It brings together the work of experts in Arabic and English language policy and planning, presenting empirical research relating to plurilingual pedagogical practices within the region. The book offers a range of recommendations for educators on how to integrate plurilingual pedagogies in classroom teaching. This becomes more important since many educators in the region are non-Arabic speakers and are teaching students with diverse linguistic backgrounds through English. With a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to the linguistic landscape in the Arabian region, this book will be of great interest to researchers, scholars, and students in the fields of applied linguistics, language education, teacher education, and EMI.

Author : Salim Bouherar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030893243
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Algerian Languages in Education written by Salim Bouherar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of foreign languages and cultures in the Algerian educational system, highlighting how cultural imperialism and supremacy persist through damaging language ideologies and the privileging of colonial languages such as French and English. The authors challenge the claim that the Algerian educational system can be considered ‘neutral’, arguing instead that it was and still is the outcome of a conflict between Arabised and Francophone elites, serving strategic and ideological objectives rather than cultural or pedagogical goals. This book will be relevant to students and scholars of language education, language policy and planning, and the history and politics of the Arab and Muslim world, especially those interested in the influence of Western languages and cultures and the democratisation of educational systems.

Author : Susanna C. Eng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scaffolding Disciplinary Engagement and Literacy for Reclassified as Fluent English Proficient (R-FEP) Middle School Students written by Susanna C. Eng and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigated the instructional practices and aspects of the classroom environment that middle school social teachers used to establish and cultivate engagement and learning with content and discipline-specific understandings with text for their Reclassified as Fluent English Proficient (R-FEP) students. A framework of productive disciplinary engagement (PDE) (Engle, 2012; Engle & Conant, 2002) that integrated literature on literacy, bilingual/bicultural language learners, and key disciplinary concepts and practice in history and civics was used to examine how teachers framed and supported their R-FEP students' interactions with text; students' responses to instruction and scaffolds were also examined. The findings revealed complex tensions across three cases that detailed both opportunities for and barriers to developing discipline-specific engagement and learning with and from text. Analysis indicated that: a) teachers planned and enacted instruction that suggested that text and literacy were peripheral to content learning and engagement; b) teachers provided opportunities to encounter but not to develop key disciplinary concepts and understandings; and c) teachers demonstrated limited awareness of the influence of literacy and culture on R-FEP students.Encounters with difficult texts in combination with the types of reading strategies previously taught and research and writing supports provided bolstered the belief that learning was synonymous with the accumulation of knowledge. The teachers assumed that gathering factual information would naturally lead to conceptual understanding. While the teachers highlighted the importance of disciplinary concepts, such as historical context and argumentation, the primary supports to grapple with these concepts communicated completion over the consideration of relevance and purposeful thinking. Consequently, the R-FEP students held onto overly simplistic perspectives. There was a mismatch in salience and perceived relevance of language and cultural ethnic identity for R-FEP students in comparison to their teachers. Without a specific label and status of "ELL" attached to students, the salience of language was low for the social studies teachers who assumed these students no longer faced language and literacy challenges like their English dominant peers. This study has implications for the framework of PDE, demonstrating the critical role that text, literacy, language, and cultural ethnic identity influence the opportunities for engagement with content and disciplinary learning for R-FEP adolescents. This study also provided qualitative support that R-FEP adolescents are still affected by issues of language and literacy years after exit from ELL support services.

Author : Aída Walqui
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780914409755
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scaffolding the Academic Success of Adolescent English Language Learners written by Aída Walqui and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of a decade long effort in school districts such as New York City, Austin, and San Diego to implement challenging instruction that is designed for classrooms that include English learners and that raises the bar and increases engagement for all learners. Classroom vignettes, transcripts of student interactions, and detailed examples of intellectually engaging middle school and high school lessons provide a concrete picture of the instructional approach developed by coauthor Aida Walqui, founder and director of WestEd s Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) initiative.

Author : Eli R. Johnson
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1452209375
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Academic Language! Academic Literacy! written by Eli R. Johnson and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2009-06-24 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide provides 36 hands-on strategies for helping ELLs learn the necessary skills to decipher academic language in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

Author : Janet I. Angelis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475823282
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Academic Literacy written by Janet I. Angelis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Academic Literacy is a coach-in-a-pocket for educators seeking to build strong academic literacy and higher-order thinking. This book is for anyone with responsibility for instruction – teachers, instructional coaches, professional developers, principals, curriculum leaders, teacher preparation faculty. It provides pathways to developing higher-order thinking in every student and setting. Key to its success is that it connects reading, writing, listening, thinking, and speaking. Readers will find that they can engage all students with content, but more importantly, students will process content in ways appropriate to a particular subject. They also develop independent learning skills -- exactly what the Common Core State Standards call for. The text is engaging yet practical and practicable – grounded and useful to teachers in enacting more student-centered classrooms. Its strategies serve to actively engage all students in high-level thinking and learning, those who have always found school easy and those who have not. Not a prescription, but a book designed to deepen individual and group teacher competencies to implement learning strategies in new ways and to continually refine and develop their craft.

Author : Jeff Zwiers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470639849
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Academic Language written by Jeff Zwiers and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many students, ranging from native English speakers to recent immigrants, need help in understanding and using the language of school. Language is the lifeblood of learning in all content areas, and it plays a major role in academic achievement. Building Academic Language explains the functions and features of academic language that every teacher (language arts, history, math, & science teachers, etc.) should know for supporting academic reading, writing, and discussion. The book includes research-based instructional and assessment activities that content teachers can use to build students' abilities to understand and describe the many abstract concepts, higher-order thinking skills, and complex relationships in a discipline. The book emphasizes an approach that builds from students' existing ways of learning and communicating, scaffolding them to think and talk as content area experts think and talk about math, science, history, and language arts. Major topics and themes include: What is academic language and how does it differ by content area? How can language-building activities (discussions, small groups, etc.) support content understanding? How can we build language abilities for content reading and writing - and vice versa? How can we build on students' diverse ways of understanding, learning, and communicating about the world? How can we more effectively model and scaffold academic language in our teaching and assessment?