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Learning English at school : identity, social relations, and classroom practice / Kelleen Toohey.
LIBRA PE1128.A2 T63 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Toohey, Kelleen, 1950-
- Series:
- Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 20.
- Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
- English language.
- English language--Study and teaching--Social aspects.
- Language and education--United States.
- Language and education.
- English language--Study and teaching.
- United States.
- Education, Bilingual--United States.
- Education, Bilingual.
- Second language acquisition.
- Local Subjects:
- Second language acquisition.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 152 pages ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Clevedon, UK ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, [2000]
- Contents:
- 1 Framing Story: Theory, Setting and Methodology 5
- Learners and Learning in Second Language Acquisition Research 6
- Learners as Socially/Historically/Politically Constructed 8
- Learning as Socially/Historically/Politically Constructed 9
- The Sociality of Development 10
- The Dialogic Perspective 12
- Communities of Practice 14
- The Research Site 17
- Methodology 18
- 2 Kindergarten Stories 22
- Life in Kindergarten 23
- The Children's Stories 24
- 3 Constructing School Identities: Kindergarten Meta-stories 61
- Being a Child/Becoming a Student 61
- Aspects of School Identity 62
- Academic competence 63
- Physical presentation/competence 65
- Behavioural competence 66
- Social competence 67
- Language proficiency 69
- 4 'Break them up, take them away': Practices in the Grade 1 Classroom 80
- Sitting in Your Own Desk 81
- Using Your Own Things 85
- Using Your Own Words and Ideas 87
- 5 Discursive Practices in Grade 2 Language Arts Lessons 97
- Language Arts Lessons 98
- Recitation sequences 100
- Recitation sequences and the focal children 101
- Teacher-Mandated Partner and Small Group Conversations 105
- Teacher-mandated peer conversations and the focal children 106
- Student-Managed Conversations 111
- Student-managed conversations and the focal children 112
- Recitation sequences 115
- Teacher-mandated peer conversations 118
- Peer-managed conversations 120
- 6 Appropriating Voices and Telling Stories 124
- Identity, Resource Distribution and Discourse Practices in Classrooms 125
- Access to Voice 125
- Facilitating Access 127
- Instructional Conversations 128
- The Politics of Representation 129
- Conversations, Not Collaborations 133
- Future SLA Research 134.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-147) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1853594822
- 1853594814
- OCLC:
- 42765168
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