What Teachers Need to Know About Language / / ed. by Carolyn Temple Adger, Catherine E. Snow, Donna Christian.

Rising enrollments of students for whom English is not a first language mean that every teacher - whether teaching kindergarten or high school algebra - is a language teacher. This book explains what teachers need to know about language in order to be more effective in the classroom, and it shows ho...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:CAL Series on Language Education
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1. What Teachers Need to Know About Language
  • 2. Analyzing Themes: Knowledge About Language for Exploring Text Structure
  • 3. What Educators Need to Know About Academic Language: Insights from Recent Research
  • 4. Language and Instruction: Research-Based Lesson Planning and Delivery for English Learner Students
  • 5. "Languagizing" the Early Childhood Classroom: Supporting Children's Language Development
  • 6. Working with Families of Diverse Backgrounds: Learning from Teachers Who "Read" Their Students
  • 7. What Teachers Need to Know About Language: A Focus on Language Disorders
  • 8. What Teachers Know About Language
  • 9. Language Awareness Programs: Building Students' and Teachers' Sociolinguistic Knowledge
  • 10. Reflections on "What Teachers Need to Know About Language (2002)"
  • 11. What Teacher Educators Need to Know About Language and Language Learners: The Power of a Faculty Learning Community
  • Index