Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: sociocultural theory as a theoretical framework for understanding teachers' roles in second language learning / Bogum Yoon and Hoe Kyeung Kim
  • Part I: linguistic perspectives
  • How teacher talk can guide student exploratory talk: communication, conjecture, and connections in a fourth and fifth grade ELL classroom / Maureen P. Boyd
  • Mediating meaning in interaction: researching the connection between professional development and teacher practice / José David Herazo and Richard Donato
  • Mediating learning and negotiating curricular ideologies in a fourth grade bilingual classroom / Lara J. Handsfield
  • Teacher and students' use of gesture as a meaning-making affordance for second language learning / Allesandro Rosborough
  • Teacher discourse and code choice in a Swedish EFL classroom / Kristy Beers Fägersten
  • How do teachers participate, mediate, and intervene in the co-construction of language knowledge during learner interactions / Melinda Martin-Beltrán
  • Part II: cultural perspectives
  • Teacher's use of funds of knowledge to promote class participation and engagement in an EFL context / Hoe Kyeung Kim and Soyoung Lee
  • Teachers' roles in facilitating novice writers from Generation 1.5 / Paula M. Carbone
  • Teachers' cultural inclusivity and ELLs' participation in language and literacy activities / Bogum Yoon
  • Working with preschool English language learners: a sociocultural approach / Joyce Bezdicek and Georgia Earnest García
  • Part III: social perspectives
  • Teacher discourse and peer interaction in linguistically diverse classrooms / Ester J. de Jong
  • An ESL instructor's strategic teaching in a collaborative learning community / Eun-Jeong Kim
  • Teachers' roles and mediating strategies of learners' engagement in the L2 classroom / Jennifer R. Smiley and Marta Antón
  • Second grade ESL literacy success in a U.S. mainstream classroom / Amma Akrofi, Carole Janisch, Amira Zebidi, and Karla Lewis.