Teaching Language in Context

by Derewianka, Beverly; Jones, Pauline

• ISBN13: 9780195575330
• ISBN10: 0195575334
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-03-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Teaching Language in Context takes the purposes for which language is used in different content areas as the starting point for teaching literacy. It recognises that students' understandings are constructed in language and that each area of the curriculum uses language in a different way. Success in each subject requires students to acquire the specialised language of the curriculum area; that is, the genres and language features through which the content is expressed. In order to successfully develop students' language for curriculum success, teachers must identify the language demands of the different curriculum areas. This textbook supports pre-service teachers to do this while familiarising them with the different curriculum areas.

Author Biography

Beverly Derewianka is Professor of Language Education at the University of Wollongong, where she is Director of the Centre for Research in Language and Literacy. Following several years teaching in primary and secondary schools, she became a teacher educator in the fields of TESOL and literacy education.

Pauline Jones is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong. Pauline teaches in the areas of language, literacy and TESOL in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Before moving into teacher education in 1995, she worked as a language curriculum consultant, ESL and classroom teacher and a community development worker in underprivileged urban environments.

Table of Contents

Part One - Language and learning
1. - An appropriate model of language
2. - The functions of language
3. - Introduction to a teaching and learning cycle
Part Two - Learning about language
4. - Language for Creating and Appreciating Story Worlds
5. - Language for Recounting what happened
6. - Language for Telling How to do something
7. - Language for Observing and Describing the World
8. - Language for Explaining How and Why
9. - Language for Persuading Others
Appendix 1 - Scope and sequence of genre
Appendix 2 - Scope and sequence of grammar
Glossary of terms
References