Bridging Discourses in the ESL Classroom: Students, Teachers and Researchers

✍ Scribed by Pauline Gibbons

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 385
• Series: Bloomsbury Classics in Linguistics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Chapter 1: Bridging discourses’ in the ESL classroom: An introduction
Introduction
Bridging discourses in the classroom: teachers and students
Bridging discourses across disciplines
Bridging discourses: The teacher and the researcher
Part 1: Language, learning and learners:Perspectives across disciplines
Chapter 2: A sociocultural view of language and learning
Two approaches to learning
A sociocultural view of learning
A social view of language
Notes
Chapter 3: Second language learning and teaching
Metaphors from SLA
Discourse as learning
Classroom-based issues
Critical perspectives on the second language classroom
Note
Part 2: Inside two classrooms
Chapter 4: Researching the classroom
The school context
Approaches to analysis
The data
Notes
Chapter 5: Teaching and learning in two classrooms
The episode summaries: Rationale and explanation of categories
Discussion of emergent themes
Note
Part 3: Discourse contexts for second language development
Chapter 6: Teachers and learners: Constructing new meanings
Introduction
Micro-mode shifting
Mode shifting across episodes
Implications for pedagogy: mode shifting and learning
Chapter 7: The teachers: Teaching as mediation
Introduction
Illustrative examples: Mediating through scaffolding
Teaching as mediation: some implications for the classroom
Notes
Chapter 8: The learners: Affordances for learning
Introduction
Implications for practice and research
Notes
Glossary of systemic functional linguistic terms
Appendix: Episode summaries
Classroom 1
Classroom 2
References
Index