Voices from the Language Classroom: Qualitative Research in Second Language Education

by Edited by Kathleen M. Bailey , David Nunan

• ISBN13: 9780521559041
• ISBN10: 0521559049
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-02-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This text is about what really happens in language classrooms. This paperback edition is about what really happens in language classrooms, both those in which language is the topic of instruction and those where it functions primarily as the medium of instruction. In this collection of 19 original papers, the authors utilize a variety of research methods, with an emphasis on the collection and analysis of data. Chapters investigate such issues as language-related anxiety, curriculum renewal, classroom interaction, teachers' on-line decision-making, and sociopolitical concerns affecting life in schools.

Table of Contents

Contributors	x
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiv
Introduction	1	(10)
Section I Teaching as doing, thinking, and interpreting	11	(108)
The best laid plans: teachers' in-class decisions to depart from their lesson plans	15	(26)
Kathleen M. Bailey
Hidden voices: insiders' perspectives on classroom interaction	41	(16)
David Nunan
Teaching style: a way to understand instruction in language classrooms	57	(31)
Anne Katz
Redefining the relationship between research and what teachers know	88	(31)
Donald Freeman
Questions and tasks	116	(3)
Section II Classroom dynamics and interaction	119	(78)
In or out of the action zone: location as a feature of interaction in large ESL classes in Pakistan	123	(22)
Fauzia Shamim
Reticence and anxiety in second language learning	145	(23)
Amy B. M. Tsui
A window on the classroom: classroom events viewed from different angles	168	(29)
David Block
Questions and tasks	195	(2)
Section III The classroom and beyond	197	(82)
Socializing with the teachers and prior language learning experience: a diary study	201	(23)
Cherry Campbell
Sardo revisited: voice, faith, and multiple repeaters	224	(12)
Martha Clark Cummings
Language learning diarries as mirrors of students' cultural sensitivity	236	(12)
Sabrina Peck
``I want to talk with them, but I don't want them to hear'': an introspective study of second language anxiety in an Englishmedium school	248	(31)
Mick Hilleson
Questions and tasks	276	(3)
Section IV Curricular issues	279	(80)
Look who's talking now: listening to voices in curriculum renewal	283	(21)
Ian Harrison
U. S. language minority students: voices from the junior high classroom	304	(14)
Marguerite Ann Snow
John Hyland
Lia Kamhi-Stein
Janet Harclerode Yu
Voices for improved learning: the ethnographer as co-agent of pedagogic change	318	(20)
Peter A. Shaw
Registration and placement: learner response	338	(21)
Peter Sturman
Questions and tasks	356	(3)
Section V Sociopolitical perspectives	359	(92)
Conflicting voices: language, classrooms, and bilingual education in Puno	363	(25)
Leo van Lier
The functions of code switching among high school teachers and students in KwaZulu-Natal and implications for teacher education	388	(19)
Ralph D. Adendorff
Different languages, different practices: socialization of discourse competence in dual-language school classrooms in Hungary	407	(27)
Patricia A. Duff
The tapestry of diversity in our classrooms	434	(17)
Denise E. Murray
Questions and tasks	449	(2)
Index	451