Linguistics at School: Language Awareness in Primary and Secondary Education

by Edited by Kristin Denham , Anne Lobeck

• ISBN13: 9780521887014
• ISBN10: 0521887011
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-15
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Linguistics is a subject that has remained largely confined to the academy, rather than being integrated into school curricula. This is unfortunate but not surprising, as although some teacher education programs include courses on linguistics, it is not comprehensively integrated into teacher education, so it is largely absent from the curriculum. This volume brings together a team of leaders in the field of linguistics and education, to provide an overview of the current state of research and practice. It demonstrates changes which can be made to teaching, such as revising teacher's preparation, developing and implementing practical applications of linguistics in both primary and secondary classrooms, partnering linguists with classroom teachers, and working to improve state and national education standards. The contributors emphasize the importance of collaboration between professional linguists and educators in order to meet a common goal: to raise awareness of the workings of language.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. viii
Foreword: The challenge for education	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Linguistics from the top down: encouraging institutional change	p. 7
Introduction to Part I	p. 9
Ideologies of language, art, and science	p. 13
Bringing linguistics into the school curriculum: not one less	p. 24
How linguistics has influenced schools in England	p. 35
Supporting the teaching of knowledge about language in Scottish schools	p. 49
Envisioning linguistics in secondary education: an Australian exemplar	p. 62
Linguistics and educational standards: the California experience	p. 76
Developing sociolinguistic curricula that help teachers meet standards	p. 91
Linguistic development in children's writing: changing classroom pedagogies	p. 106
Linguistics from the bottom up: encouraging classroom change	p. 123
Introduction to Part II	p. 125
From cold shoulder to funded welcome: lessons from the trenches of dialectally diverse classrooms	p. 129
Positioning linguists as learners in K-12 schools	p. 149
Fostering teacher change: effective professional development for sociolinguistic diversity	p. 161
On promoting linguistics literacy: bringing language science to the English classroom	p. 175
Linguistics in a primary school	p. 189
Educating linguists: how partner teaching enriches linguistics	p. 204
The Linguistic Olympiads: academic competitions in linguistics for secondary school students	p. 213
Vignettes: voices from the classroom	p. 227
Introduction to Part III	p. 229
And you can all say haboo: enriching the standard language arts curriculum with linguistic analysis	p. 234
Code switching: connecting written and spoken language patterns	p. 240
A primary teacher's linguistic journey	p. 244
Why do VCE English Language?	p. 251
Language lessons in an American middle school	p. 257
The diary of Opal Whiteley: a literary and linguistic mystery	p. 264
Using the Voices of North Carolina curriculum	p. 272
A-level English Language teaching in London	p. 277
References	p. 282
Index	p. 303
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