Academic language in second language learning / edited by M. Beatriz Arias (University of California) and Christian J. Faltis (Arizona State University).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Faltis, Christian, editor.

Arias, M. Beatriz, editor.

Series:

Research in second language learning.

Research in second language learning

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching (Higher)--Foreign speakers.

English language.

Academic language--Study and teaching.

Academic language.

English teachers--Training of.

English teachers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Pub., Inc., 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume sheds new light on the question of a "Soviet model" by examining how a particular Soviet system of science and higher education emerged, how it was exported and imported across varying local, national and international settings, and how key aspects of it outlived the political system that fostered it. The contemporary crises in science and higher education surrounding the demise of communism appear as a distinctive break from the patterns set into motion in the 1920s and 30s, but also as one more upheaval following a long line of previous reorderings throughout the 20th century that were conditioned by broader cataclysms in politics, society, ideology, and culture.

Contents:

Foreword / M. Beatriz Arias

Section I. Language in academic Contents

Chapter 1. Demystifying and questioning the power of academic language / Christian Faltis

Chapter 2. Developing academic English with English language learners: A study of mainstream classroom practices / Shanan Fitts and Erica Bowers

Chapter 3. Pedagogical language knowledge and the instruction of English learners / Audrey Lucero

Section II. Academic language in language teaching

Chapter 4. Exploring academic language in exemplary beginning teachers through a constructivist inquiry approach / Barbara J. Merino, J. Richard Pomeroy, Al Mendle, and M. Cecilia Gómez

Chapter 5. Developing teachers' critical language awareness in digital contexts / Tomás Galguera

Chapter 6. Educators' conceptions of academic literacy and language / Steven Z. Athanases and Juliet Michelsen Wahleithner

Section III. Language in subject-area content

Chapter 7. Academic language in the social studies for English learners / Luciana C. de Oliveira

Chapter 8. Scaffolding academic language in science for English learners / Frank Ramírez-Marín and Doug Clark

Chapter 9. English language learning and learning academic language in mathematics / James A. Middleton, Silvia Llamas-Flores, and Paula Patricia Guerra Lombardi. Afterword / Karen E. Lillie

About the contributors.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-62396-116-5

OCLC:

923178203