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Language, Power and Pedagogy : Bilingual Children in the Crossfire.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Clevedon : Multilingual Matters, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (317 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781853596773
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 370.117/5
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Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 Theory as Dialogue -- Chapter 1 Issues and Contexts -- Chapter 2 Language Interactions in the Classroom: From Coercive to Collaborative Relations of Power -- Part 2 The Nature of Language Proficiency -- Chapter 3 Language Proficiency in Academic Contexts -- Chapter 4 Critiques of the Conversational/ Academic Language Proficiency Distinction -- Chapter 5 Assessing Second Language Proficiency Among Adults: Do We Know What We Are Measuring? -- Chapter 6 Dilemmas of Inclusion: Integrating English Language Learners in Standards-Based Reform -- Part 3 From Bilingual Education to Transformative Pedagogy -- Chapter 7 The Threshold and Interdependence Hypotheses Revisited -- Chapter 8 Research, Theory and Policy in Bilingual Education: Evaluating the Credibility of Empirical Data -- Chapter 9 Challenging the Discourse of Disempowerment Through Collaborative Dialogue -- Chapter 10 Transformative Pedagogy: Who Needs It? -- References -- Subject Index.
Summary: This volume reviews the research and theory relating to instruction and assessment of bilingual pupils, focusing not only on issues of language learning and teaching but also the ways in which power relations in the wider society affect patterns of teacher-pupil interaction in the classroom.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 Theory as Dialogue -- Chapter 1 Issues and Contexts -- Chapter 2 Language Interactions in the Classroom: From Coercive to Collaborative Relations of Power -- Part 2 The Nature of Language Proficiency -- Chapter 3 Language Proficiency in Academic Contexts -- Chapter 4 Critiques of the Conversational/ Academic Language Proficiency Distinction -- Chapter 5 Assessing Second Language Proficiency Among Adults: Do We Know What We Are Measuring? -- Chapter 6 Dilemmas of Inclusion: Integrating English Language Learners in Standards-Based Reform -- Part 3 From Bilingual Education to Transformative Pedagogy -- Chapter 7 The Threshold and Interdependence Hypotheses Revisited -- Chapter 8 Research, Theory and Policy in Bilingual Education: Evaluating the Credibility of Empirical Data -- Chapter 9 Challenging the Discourse of Disempowerment Through Collaborative Dialogue -- Chapter 10 Transformative Pedagogy: Who Needs It? -- References -- Subject Index.

This volume reviews the research and theory relating to instruction and assessment of bilingual pupils, focusing not only on issues of language learning and teaching but also the ways in which power relations in the wider society affect patterns of teacher-pupil interaction in the classroom.

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