Language awareness in the classroom

Language Awareness in Multilingual Class

📁 Language Awareness in Multilingual Classrooms in Europe: From Theory to Practice

✍ Christine Hélot (editor); Carolien Frijns (editor); Koen van Gorp (editor); Sven 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 De Gruyter Mouton 🌐 English

<p>Within the scope of today’s globalisation, linguistic diversity is a given fact of the world we live in. In several educational contexts in Europe, language awareness (LA) activities have been introduced with the objective to prepare pupils cognitively, socially and/or critically for life as mult

Language Awareness in Multilingual Class

📁 Language Awareness in Multilingual Classrooms in Europe: From Theory to Practice

✍ Christine Hélot (editor); Carolien Frijns (editor); Koen van Gorp (editor); Sven 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 De Gruyter Mouton 🌐 English

<p>Within the scope of today’s globalisation, linguistic diversity is a given fact of the world we live in. In several educational contexts in Europe, language awareness (LA) activities have been introduced with the objective to prepare pupils cognitively, socially and/or critically for life as mult

Sound Practice : Phonological Awareness

📁 Sound Practice : Phonological Awareness in the Classroom

✍ Lyn Layton; Karen Deeny; Robyn Langdon; Catriona Mackenzie 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 David Fulton Publishers 🌐 English

The second edition of Sound Practice looks afresh at how young children can be helped to discover basic facts about an alphabetic spelling system, within the context of their developing spoken language. It examines why children might fail to understand letter-sound links; the origins of severe and p

Listening in the Language Classroom

📁 Listening in the Language Classroom

✍ John Field 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

This book challenges the orthodox approach to the teaching of second language listening, which is based upon the asking and answering of comprehension questions. The book's central argument is that a preoccupation with the notion of 'comprehension' has led teachers to focus upon the product of l

Language Alive in the Classroom

📁 Language Alive in the Classroom

✍ Rebecca S. Wheeler 📂 Library 📅 1999 🏛 Praeger (Greenwood Publishing Group) 🌐 English

A common concern of teachers in the English-speaking world is that students at all levels often show very little knowledge of grammar. As traditionally taught (if taught at all), grammar is a dry, prescriptive subject and one that students often dislike and therefore do not learn well. In this edite

Listening in the Language Classroom

📁 Listening in the Language Classroom

✍ John Field 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

This book challenges the orthodox approach to the teaching of second language listening, which is based upon the asking and answering of comprehension questions. The book's central argument is that a preoccupation with the notion of 'comprehension' has led teachers to focus upon the product of l