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Subject Literacy in Culturally Diverse Secondary Schools
Supporting EAL Learners
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Subject Literacy in Culturally Diverse Secondary Schools
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Subject Literacy in Culturally Diverse Secondary Schools supports you to help all learners at lower secondary level to develop and communicate their ideas more effectively, particularly learners with English as an Additional Language (EAL).
Starting from basic educational principles, the authors help you to consider the processes of learning and why every good teacher needs knowledge about language to support this, looking at how language is used for different purposes. Drawing on their experience across language in culturally diverse classrooms and teacher education, the authors encourage you to explore:
-How is language used to present and discuss knowledge in my subject?
-Who are the EAL learners in your classroom?
-What are the processes of language development?
-What approaches to task design and language modelling can a subject teacher use for building subject knowledge?
You are supported to reflect on the specific features of your own subject language, enabling you to consider how you can make your subject related language more visible to learners and how you can use existing knowledge of language to help learners to understand and develop subject literacies.
Table of Contents
Glossary of Terms
1. Why does every good teacher need knowledge about language to support subject literacy?
2. What is it like to be an EAL learner?
3. How is language used to present and discuss knowledge in my subject?
4. How can I support EAL learners to engage with new knowledge in challenging texts?
5. What are the key principles for adapting pedagogical tasks and tests to suit the EAL learner?
6. What constitutes 'useful feedback' to support EAL learner literacy development?
7. How can I monitor progress and plan progression in subject literacy?
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Product details

Published | 09 Jan 2020 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 256 |
ISBN | 9781350073937 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
Dimensions | 244 x 169 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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