What Teachers Need to Know About Language

✍ Scribed by Carolyn Temple Adger (editor); Catherine E. Snow (editor); Donna Christian (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 170
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book shows what teachers need to know about language to work effectively with diverse students. It gives examples of the many aspects of teaching and learning in which language is a key, and it suggests how teacher education programs can help teachers gain the knowledge and skills they need to refine their practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Introduction
1. What Teachers Need to Know About Language
2. Analyzing Themes: Knowledge About Language for Exploring Text Structure
3. What Educators Need to Know About Academic Language: Insights from Recent Research
4. Language and Instruction: Research-Based Lesson Planning and Delivery for English Learner Students
5. “Languagizing” the Early Childhood Classroom: Supporting Children’s Language Development
6. Working with Families of Diverse Backgrounds: Learning from Teachers Who “Read” Their Students
7. What Teachers Need to Know About Language: A Focus on Language Disorders
8. What Teachers Know About Language
9. Language Awareness Programs: Building Students’ and Teachers’ Sociolinguistic Knowledge
10. Reflections on “What Teachers Need to Know About Language (2002)”
11. What Teacher Educators Need to Know About Language and Language Learners: The Power of a Faculty Learning Community
Index