Content-Based Second Language Teaching and Learning : An Interactive Approach, MyLabSchool Edition

by Hall Haley, Marjorie; Austin, Theresa Y.

• ISBN13: 9780205464609
• ISBN10: 0205464602
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

This text examines second language pedagogy from two critical fields of literature: psycholinguistics and socio-cultural, offering a fresh perspective on interactive content-based language teaching and learning.

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An Interactive Approach to Content-Based Second Language

Teaching and Learning 1/e This text examines second language pedagogy from two critical fields of literature

psycholinguistics and socio-cultural

offering a fresh perspective on interactive content-based language teaching and learning

Unique in its kind, this highly practical text offers more methodological approaches to teaching in ESL settings than any other book on the market

making a perfect match for undergraduate pre-service teachers who are learning how to teach ESL students in their classrooms

Features Each chapter begins with “This Chapter Will Feature” and “You Will Examine” sections

describing chapter content to prepare the reader and “Introduction--Setting the Stage” which helps provide a chapter framework

Throughout each chapter, “Think/Pair/Share, ” “Reflect/Respond/Act, ” “Discuss and Reflect, ” and “Ask Yourself

These Questions” allow students to discuss, reflect, and assess the new information

Each chapter concludes with a “Glossary of Terms” to improve student content comprehension; an “Action Research” project helping

The reader create meaningful questions to examine through investigation; and a case study providing the reader

with and immediate application for the chapter content covered

Technology advantage - Video clips from this text's

Companion Website include clips of teachers demonstrating effective practices that accompany the text

Includes unique pedagogical features to maximize student comprehension: “

What Do Teachers Think?

” where classroom teachers offer a candid view of the classroom life associated with chapter topics

“Field-Based Experience” offers suggestions for classroom and school setting activities

opportunities for the reader to practice what they have read

“Application Activity” suggests activities for student teaching, applying theory to practice

“This is the type of textbook that students like because the activities lead the students to think, reflect, and act

This type of critical pedagogy

structure is excellent in that students do not need to react to political terms

Marxist themes and writers that have used this system

Instead the Vygotskian style of assisted learning provides guideposts just as one would hope teachers would do in the classroom.”

Professor Maria E. Medrano National University-California Author Bio

Marjorie Hall Haley is Associate Professor of Education in the Center for Multilingual/Multicultural Education in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University in Fairfax

Virginia

She is a former Spanish, French, German, and ESL teacher of 14 years

In her 15th year at GMU, she teaches Foreign/Second Language Methods

ESL and Bilingual methods, and Bilingualism/Second Language Acquisition Research

In 2002, GMU awarded her its Outstanding Faculty Award in Teaching

Theresa Y. Austin is Associate Professor of Education in the School of Education

Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies

Bilingual, ESL, Multicultural Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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