Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores sociocultural theories as they relate to language and literacy teaching and learning, and to professional preparation and development for language teachers. Language teachers and language teacher educators weave research, theory and practice together as they articulate and explore theoretical perspectives through detailed descriptions and analyses of practices.
Trade Review"This book provides a greatly needed account of various ways in which sociocultural perspectives on language and learning can be integrated into programs for the preparation of language teachers. This volume provides several concrete cases of the work of language teacher educators in different parts of the world whose practices have been shaped by a sociocultural perspective. These cases, together with the accounts from two teachers who were prepared in a socioculturally oriented teacher education program, provide a very useful resource for teacher educators who are interested in incorporating sociocultural perspectives into their programs and courses. This is an important book that is relevant to all teacher educators." Ken Zeichner, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Author Biographies 2004
Part 1: Introduction
Margaret R. Hawkins: Introduction
Part 2: Sociocultural Perspectives on Language and Learning
1 James Paul Gee: Learning Language as a Matter of Learning Social Languages within Discourses
Part 3: Sociocultural Approaches to Language Teacher Education
2 Pippa Stein: Re-sourcing Resources: Pedagogy, History and Loss in a Johannesburg Classroom
3 Jerri Willett and Sarah Miller: Transforming the Discourses of Teaching and Learning: Rippling Waters and Shifting Sands
4 Margaret R. Hawkins: Social Apprenticeships Through Mediated Learning in Language Teacher Education
Part 4: The Uptake of Sociocultural Approaches in Language Education
5 Jennifer Miller: Social Languages and Schooling: The Uptake of Sociocultural Perspectives in School
6 Alison Beynon: Tinker, Tailor, Teacher, Text: Using a Multiliteracies Approach to Remediate Reading
Part 5: Implications of Sociocultural Perspectives for Language Teacher Education
7 Donald Freeman: Language, Sociocultural Theory, and L2 Teacher Education: Examining the Technology of Subject Matter and the Architecture of Instruction
Index
