Overview
- Includes activities and tasks involving analysis of audio, video and written texts
- Links main issues with related theory and references to the work of relevant specialists
- Explores the impact of literacy and oracy on students' ability to participate actively in society
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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“In this marvellously accessible and practical book, Rod Bolitho and Richard Rossner provide teachers with the tools they need for language-sensitive teaching. This is a book with a simple yet crucial message — every teacher is a language teacher. Bolitho and Rossner show what language-sensitive teaching involves and why all curricular subjects have a role to play in supporting literacy and oracy development. With its detailed examples of language use and numerous ideas for language-sensitive teaching, this is that rare type of education publication that is genuinely relevant for all teachers. Language-Sensitive Teaching also doubles up as a highly useful resource for teacher educators and trainers, who can find tasks here for a range of professional development purposes, as well as a core syllabus for language sensitive teaching that can be integrated into initial teacher training programmes.” (Dr Jason Skeet, Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE))
“As classroomsacross Europe become ever more linguistically and culturally heterogeneous, teachers of all subjects are faced with the task not only of transmitting subject knowledge but of helping students to cope with the linguistic and cognitive challenges that interaction with language brings. This valuable book takes its readers – (student) teachers of languages and other classroom subjects – on a journey through a variety of issues, both theoretical and practical, which guides them towards ‘language-sensitive’ approaches to teaching. It provides a plethora of example-based tasks relating to language use, both inside and outside the classroom, which encourage its readers to reflect on and find solutions to the challenge of making language and subject matter accessible to learners. 'It fills a gap in language-sensitive education and is a valuable resource for teachers and teacher educators of any subject.” (Dr David Newby, Graz University, Austria)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Rod Bolitho has worked in language education as teacher, teacher educator and manager for over 50 years in both the public and private sectors. He has an international reputation as author, trainer and consultant to ELT projects in Europe and beyond.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language-Sensitive Teaching and Learning
Book Subtitle: A Resource Book for Teachers and Teacher Educators
Authors: Richard Rossner, Rod Bolitho
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11339-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11338-3Published: 02 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11339-0Published: 01 January 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 192
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Teaching and Teacher Education, Language Education, Professional & Vocational Education, Intercultural Communication