Language, schools and classrooms /
The role of language is central in education - but there is much debate about the exact relation between children's language and their educational success. The author provides a clear guide to the basic issues in the debates over language deficit, standard English and classroom language, and in...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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Colección: | Routledge library editions. Education ;
v. 200. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- LANGUAGE, SCHOOLS AND CLASSROOMS; Copyright; Language, schools and classrooms; Copyright; Contents; Editor's introduction; Foreword to the second edition; 1 Why is language important in education?; The language of education?; Language, learning and classrooms; Teacher training and language study; 2 Some basic sociolinguistic concepts; Language and attitudes to language; The primitive language myth; Standard and nonstandard English; Language structure and language use; The implication of such distinctions; 3 Bernstein's theory of restricted and elaborated codes; The work of Basil Bernstein.
- Bernstein's early workBernstein's later work (1973); Do the codes exist?; Some possible confusions; Conclusions; 4 Labov and the myth of linguistic deprivation; Languages, logic, explicitness and grammar; Nonstandard languages as media of education; The myth of linguistic deprivation; Labov and Bernstein; West Indian children in British schools; A pseudo-problem?; 5 The need for studies of classroom language; Reasons for studying classroom languag; Our ignorance of classroom langua; The rationale for naturalistic studies; Teachers as researchers; 6 Studies of classroom language.
- Commentaries on classroom dialogueThe structure of classroom dialogue; The classroom as a sociolinguistic setting; Studying social processes in classrooms; 7 Teaching and talking: the hidden curriculum of classroom talk; The hidden curriculum; The framing of educational knowledge; Discourse structure and assumptions about teachin; The social construction of children's ability; Teaching as talking: some cross-cultural data; 8 Towards a sociolinguistic analysis of language in education; Language as evidence for educational statemen; Language is organized.
- Criteria for studies of language in education9 Some topics for investigation; Further reading; References and name index; Subject index.