Online Language Teaching in Diverse Contexts

Online Language Teaching in Diverse Contexts

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  • Author: Rachel Friedman
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 1527586014
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 188

This book brings together a variety of perspectives and interventions related to online and remote language teaching. Aimed at scholars and language teachers, as well as students of language pedagogy, these perspectives are drawn from diverse teaching contexts, although the findings they share can be applied across different levels and target languages. This volume also includes reflection on implementing these ideas during and after the remote learning necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This volume will be especially valuable in the coming years, as educators and researchers work to understand the experiences of teachers and learners during the pandemic, and as the remote teaching precipitated by recent events increases interest in online learning. As online language course offerings continue to grow and develop, this volume will be a rich resource for researchers, instructors, and students interested in better understanding the diverse practices and methods that can be employed in online language teaching.


Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms

Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms

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  • Author: Jennifer Miller
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847693792
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 305

A critical reality of contemporary education in a globalised world is the growing cultural, racial and linguistic diversity in schools and the issues involved in educating increasing numbers of students who are still learning the dominant language. This poses extraordinary challenges for second and foreign language teachers in many countries, where such students must engage with the mainstream curriculum in a new language. What do these increasingly plurilingual and multicultural classrooms look like? And how do language teachers address the challenges of such diverse classrooms? This book brings together a group of well-recognised language education scholars who present their research in a range of international settings. They focus on the key areas of pedagogy, language policy and curriculum and exemplify new research directions in the field.


The Culture of Language Education. Foreign Language Teaching in Diverse Instructional Contexts

The Culture of Language Education. Foreign Language Teaching in Diverse Instructional Contexts

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  • Author: Jaroslaw Krajka
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
  • ISBN: 9783631808221
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 316


TEACHING ENGLISH IN GLOBAL CONTEXTS: Language, Learners and Learning

TEACHING ENGLISH IN GLOBAL CONTEXTS: Language, Learners and Learning

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  • Author: Valentina Canese
  • Publisher: ISL-FIL-UNA
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 686


Research on Integrating Language and Content in Diverse Contexts

Research on Integrating Language and Content in Diverse Contexts

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  • Author: MaryAnn Christison
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000575292
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 268

Co-published with The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF), the ninth volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English series presents research on the practice of integrating content and language in diverse contexts where English is used as a medium of instruction. With chapters written by TIRF Doctoral Dissertation Grant awardees and other scholars, the volume offers an overview of a wide range of methodological approaches to teaching content in English to English learners and examines factors that impede or contribute to effective instruction. The chapters include findings from original empirical research, as well as overviews of existing research and model programs, providing valuable insights and taking into account a multitude of contextual features. Offering up-to-date research on integrating language and content at the primary, secondary, and postsecondary levels, this book familiarizes readers with the latest advances in theory and practice. It is a key text for teacher education courses for preservice teachers, a resource for professional development programs for practicing teachers, and a useful reference for researchers.


Technology-Assisted Language Assessment in Diverse Contexts

Technology-Assisted Language Assessment in Diverse Contexts

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  • Author: Karim Sadeghi
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000826872
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 291

This timely collection explores the role of digital technology in language education and assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic. It recognises the unique pressures which the COVID-19 pandemic placed on assessment in language education, and examines the forced shift in assessment strategies to go online, the existing shortfalls, as well as unique affordances of technology-assisted L2 assessment. By showcasing international examples of successful digital and computer-assisted proficiency and skills testing, the volume addresses theoretical and practical concerns relating to test validity, reliability, ethics, and student experience in a range of testing contexts. Particular attention is given to identifying lessons and implications for future research and practice, and the challenges of implementing unplanned computer-assisted language assessment during a crisis. Insightfully unpacking the ‘lessons learned’ from COVID and its impact on the acceleration of the shift towards online course and assessment delivery, it offers important guidelines for navigating assessment in different instructional settings in times of crisis. It will appeal to scholars, researchers, educators, and faculty with interests in educational measurement, digital education and technology, and language assessment and testing.


Using Tasks in Second Language Teaching

Using Tasks in Second Language Teaching

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  • Author: Craig Lambert
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1788929462
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 511

This book examines the use of tasks in second language instruction in a variety of international contexts, and addresses the need for a better understanding of how tasks are used in teaching and program-level decision-making. The chapters consider the key issues, examples, benefits and challenges that teachers, program designers and researchers face in using tasks in a diverse range of contexts around the world, and aim to understand practitioners’ concerns with the relationship between tasks and performance. They provide examples of how tasks are used with learners of different ages and different proficiency levels, in both face-to-face and online contexts. In documenting these uses of tasks, the authors of the various chapters illuminate cultural, educational and institutional factors that can make the effective use of tasks more or less difficult in their particular context.


Online Language Teacher Education

Online Language Teacher Education

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  • Author: Liz England
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1136698817
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 221

More and more, ESL/EFL teachers are required by their employers to obtain a Master’s degree in TESOL. Thousands of ESL/EFL teachers are acquiring professional skills and knowledge through online and distance education instructional models. Filling a growing need and making an important contribution, this book is a forerunner in addressing some of the issues and problems for online distance learning and instructional delivery in TESOL and applied linguistics departments in universities around the world. Carefully addressing the complexity of the field, this volume includes primary research and case studies of programs where a variety of online distance models are used. Structured in a logical sequence, the readable and accessible content represents the collected expertise of leading language teacher educators. Each chapter brings the reader a better understanding and ability to apply knowledge about online distance TESOL education.


Handbook of Research on Teaching in Multicultural and Multilingual Contexts

Handbook of Research on Teaching in Multicultural and Multilingual Contexts

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  • Author: Charamba, Erasmos
  • Publisher: IGI Global
  • ISBN: 1668450356
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 624

Several factors have resulted in increased intra- and inter-state migration. This has led to an increase in the enrollment of students with diverse linguistics backgrounds, placing more academic demands on educators. Linguistic diversity presents both opportunities and challenges for educators across the educational spectrum. Language ideologies profoundly shape and constrain the use of language as a resource for learning in multilingual or linguistically diverse classrooms. While English has become the world language, most communities remain, and are becoming more and more multicultural, multilingual, and diverse. The Handbook of Research on Teaching in Multicultural and Multilingual Contexts moves beyond the constraints of current language ideologies and enables the use of a wide range of resources from local semiotic repertoires. It examines the phenomenon of language use, language teaching, multiculturalism, and multilingualism in different learning areas, giving practitioners a voice to spotlight their efforts in order to keep their teaching afloat in culturally and linguistically diverse situations. Covering topics such as Indigenous languages, multilingual deaf communities, and intercultural competence, this major reference work is an essential resource for educators of both K-12 and higher education, pre-service teachers, educational psychologists, linguists, education administrators and policymakers, government officials, researchers, and academicians.


Language Teacher Development in Digital Contexts

Language Teacher Development in Digital Contexts

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  • Author: Hayriye Kayi-Aydar
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027258244
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208

This volume demonstrates how various methodologies and tools have been used to analyze the multidimensional, dynamic, and complex nature of identities and professional development of language teachers in digital contexts that have not been adequately examined before. It therefore offers new understandings and conceptualizations of language teacher development and learning in varied digital environments. The collection of pieces illustrates a field that is recognizing that digital environments are the contexts of teacher learning, not simply the object of it, and that issues of identity and agency are central to that learning. As an excellent resource on digital technologies, CALL, gaming, or language teacher identity and agency, the book can be used as a textbook in various applied linguistics courses and graduate seminars.