Collaborative Research in Second Language Education

by Beaumont, Mike; O'Brien, Teresa

• ISBN13: 9781858561714
• ISBN10: 185856171X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

In its exploration of four themes, this book shows how researchers, teachers and pupils for whom English is an additional language can develop together. The first theme is research ' of a kind that is of direct benefit to teachers ' done by teachers and teacher educators, with and for teachers. The second is professional development, since it shows how the research contributes to becoming a better teacher. The third theme is collaboration ' of learners with teachers, teachers with teachers, and teachers with teacher educators. Finally, the studies are set within different language education contexts, seeking commonalties where the terms 'œforeign,' 'œsecond,' and 'œmodern' have generally been divisive. The issues covered include the role of language across the curriculum, the links between oracy and literacy in bilingual learning, the relationship between communicative teaching and communicative testing, teacher development through distance learning programs, and the appropriacy to context of educational philosophies and technologies. Illustrating how colleagues in schools and higher education institutions can work together effectively for the benefit of all learners, it will be invaluable to educators searching for example of practitioner research to further their own development.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Mike Beaumont
Teresa O'Brien
Part 1: One project: three studies
Seeing if it makes a difference: a team-based approach to practitioner research with language support teachers	1	(12)
Mike Beaumont
Mary Coates
Ian Jones
Researching the use of ideational frameworks to support bilingual pupils' oracy and literacy skills in mainstream primary classrooms	13	(14)
Jane Andrews
Fiona Fogarty
Input and output in primary science: a case study	27	(16)
Teresa O'Brien
Gail Newnham
Lynn Tinker
Putting discourse analysis theory into practice in the secondary English classroom: a fairy tale?	43	(10)
Julia Turrell
Mike Beaumont
Part 2: Teacher development through practice-based research
In search of a role for email and the World Wide Web in improving the writing of bilingual learners	53	(14)
Diane Slaouti
Stephen Pennells
Heather Weatherhead
Practice-based inquiry and in-service teacher education: a Namibian experience	67	(16)
Hertha Pomuti
Lindsay Howard
Writing to learn: a bottom-up approach to in-service teacher development	83	(12)
Kyung-Suk Chang
Mike Beaumont
Disseminating a Cultural Studies syllabus for foreign language teaching in Bulgaria: collaborative classroom research	95	(14)
Leah Davcheva
Richard Fay
Part 3: Collaboration across boundaries
Teacher education for teachers of English and French: developing parallel distance learning programmes in Greece	109	(28)
Richard Fay
Julia-Athena Spinthourakis
Marie-Christine Anastasiadi
Distance mode INSET as personal change: unfreezing in Russia	123	(14)
Charlotte Woods
Teresa O'Brien
Radislav Millrood
Patrick Andrews
Developing links into chain reactions: the critical role of collaboration in moving from training to research	137	(12)
Jan Majer
Gary Motteram
Donald Sargeant
The impact of INSET for mainstream teachers in supporting the needs of bilingual pupils	149	(16)
Carol Barnard
John Burgess
Part 4: Developing tests together
Interculturality and English language paired oral exams: communication norms and their assessment	165	(16)
Jane Andrews
Richard Fay
Reforming language examinations as classroom research: washback and washforward in a cluster of teacher training colleges in Poland	181	(14)
Jane Andrews
Jan Majer
Donald Sargeant
Richard West
From generic to specific: a genre-based approach to ESP testing	195	(12)
Richard West
Aniko Tompos
Index	207