Code Choice in the Language Classroom / / Glenn S. Levine.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Levine, Glenn S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

Code Choice in the Language Classroom argues that the foreign language classroom is and should be regarded as a multilingual community of practice rather than as a perpetually deficient imitator of an exclusive second-language environment. From a sociocultural and ecological perspective, Levine guides the reader through a theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical treatment of the important roles of the first language, and of code-switching practices, in the language classroom. Intended for SLA researchers, language teachers, language program directors, and graduate students of foreign languages and literatures, the book develops a framework for thinking about all aspects of code choice in the language classroom and offers concrete proposals for designing and carrying out instruction in a multilingual classroom community of practice.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part 1: Conceptual Framework -- Chapter 1: Monolingual Norms and Multilingual Realities -- Chapter 2: The Conundrum of Babel: Toward a Theoretical Framework for a Multilingual Approach -- Chapter 3: What is a Code? What is Code-Switching? -- Part 2: Empirical Support -- Chapter 4 The Code Choice Status Quo of the Language Classroom -- Chapter 5 Classroom Code Choice: Toward Becoming Bilingual -- Part 3: Curriculum -- Chapter 6: An Architecture of Classroom Code Choice -- Chapter 7: Getting from Marked to Unmarked and Back Again: Articulation of Multilingual Classroom Communities of Practice -- Epilogue: Blessings of Babel -- References -- Index