It is important for any discipline, particularly in its early phases, that its historical evolution should be well understood by those involved. Language and culture pedagogy, and foreign language teaching as a specific and major component, is carried out by professionals, by teachers with a professional training. Training involves acquiring the accepted wisdom and current knowledge and understanding of a discipline, and the practical skills to carry it out, whether this is teaching medicine, law or whatever. Those who are entrusted to professionals, and who put their trust in professionals, do so because they know that they are trained. Training for law and medicine has long been located in universities, whereas it is in most countries only in relatively recent times that teacher training has been moved there from institutions that specialised in teacher training and did not have the functions of a university.
Handbook of Undergraduate Second Language Education
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This volume offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date description of the wide array of second language programs currently available to undergraduate students in the United States and abroad. It brings together, for the first time, detailed descriptions of programs in foreign language, English as a second language (ESL), dual language (bilingual), American Sign Language, Native American, and heritage languages. Addressing both theory and practice, the volume presents the historical development, current practices, and future directions of each type of program, along with detailed case studies.
Step in front of your desk and actively engage your students in learning with the techniques you ll find in this handy, quick reference. Here are practical, relevant, and easy-to-implement teaching strategies that will help you to be more creative in the classroom. The author offers techniques gathered over many years from the nursing education literature and from her own experience. Perfect as a stand-alone handbook or an accompaniment to any text!
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Linguistics for L2 Teachers is designed to help bilingual and ESL teachers better understand how and why the English language works, and to broaden their abilities to help their students learn about the various functions of English in the real world. It is not a complete curriculum in English linguistics, but rather, a foundation from which teachers can continue to grow and to teach with greater confidence. The reader-friendly, conversational style makes the concepts easily accessible to preservice and in-service teachers who have little or no previous experience in language study.
The New Teaching Elementary Science: Who's Afraid of Spiders?
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Only for teachers, Science literature | 22 February 2009
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This book is designed for teachers-to-be and practicing teachers who want to teach science with confidence and for those who are fearful of trying. It presents an inquiry-oriented method (instead of a smorgasbord of approaches) that capitalizes on children's natural curiosity by emphasizing scientific exploration. The book removes the fear of teaching science by encouraging teachers to be scientific inquirers themselves, learning side-by-side with their students. The text features a theoretical model of inquiry-based teaching -- Play-Debrief-Replay -- that incorporates elements of investigative play with critical thinking skills. In the longest chapter, 60 fully developed, field-tested investigative science activities are included to promote experiential learning and concept development. Anxieties about teaching science are addressed head-on and dealt with sensitively and thoughtfully.
