Bridging discourses in the ESL classroom : students, teachers and researchers / Pauline Gibbons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibbons, Pauline, 1946- author.

Series:

Bloomsbury classics in linguistics.

Bloomsbury classics in linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

English language.

Interdisciplinary approach in education.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages).

Place of Publication:

[London] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Summary:

"Bridging Discourses in the ESL Classroom is concerned with the nature of talk in multilingual classrooms. Examining the interactions between students learning in and through English as a second language and their teachers, this book identifies the patterns of discourse which support and enable both second language development and the learning of curriculum knowledge. These patterns are 'bridging discourses', combining the everyday language used by the student with the specialised language of the academic register. Drawing on second language acquisition research and systemic functional linguistic theory, in particular the work of Halliday and Vygotsky, Pauline Gibbons develops tools to view classroom talk through a powerful interdisciplinary lens. Putting forward an innovative new theory of classroom discourse analysis, this book focuses on applying theory to practice. This is an invaluable resource for all teachers, researchers and students of linguistics and education."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Part 1. Language, learning and learners: perspectives across disciplines

Part 2. Inside two classrooms

Part 3. Discourse contexts for second language development.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350063303

1350063304

9781350063280

1350063282

OCLC:

1047729293