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Course for Teaching English Learners, A
ISBN: 9780205510504 | 0205510507
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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A Course for Teaching English Learners will equip teachers to work with English language learners, balancing fundamental principles with practical classroom techniques. A Course for Teaching English Learners ensures that both pre- and in-service teachers alike are adequately prepared to work with English language learners by offering in a single volume a wealth of background principles underlying the cultural, linguistic, and sociocultural contexts and foundations of learning and by providing a comprehensive framework that doesnt only focus on ... MORE
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Teaching English Learners | |
| Language Structure and Use | |
| Ah, Language! | |
| Language Universals | |
| All Languages Have Structure | |
| Language Is Dynamic | |
| Language Is Complex | |
| Phonology: The Sound... MORE | |
| Phonemes | |
| Stress | |
| Pitch and Rhythm | |
| Intonation Patterns | |
| Teaching Pronunciation | |
| Morphology: The Words of Language | |
| Morphemes | |
| Word-Formation Processes | |
| Using Morphemes in Teaching | |
| Syntax: The Sentence Patterns of Language | |
| Explicit Teaching of Syntax | |
| Semantics: The Meanings of Language | |
| Semantic Challenges | |
| Acquiring Vocabulary | |
| Academic Vocabulary | |
| Vocabulary Teaching and Concept Development | |
| Semantic Shifts | |
| Language Functions | |
| Academic Language Functions | |
| Functions and Classroom Routines | |
| Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency | |
| A Curriculum That Promotes Academic Language | |
| Evaluating Curricula for Academic Language | |
| Discourse | |
| Academic Discourse | |
| Oral Discourse in the Classroom | |
| Discourse That Affirms Students' Voices | |
| Pragmatics: The Influence of Context | |
| Appropriate Language | |
| Nonverbal Communication | |
| Evaluating the Pragmatic Features of School Programs | |
| Dialects and Language Variation | |
| Dialects and the Education of English Learners | |
| Common Features That Constitute Dialects | |
| How Dialects Exhibit Social and Ethnic Differences | |
| Attitudes toward Dialects | |
| Dialects and Style | |
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Lynne Diaz-Rico is Professor of Education and Coordinator of the Master of Arts in Education, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages program at California State University, San Bernardino.
