ERIC Number: EJ936252
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Jun
Pages: 24
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ISSN: ISSN-1949-3533
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Learner-Centered Teaching: The Core of Effective Practices for Adolescent English Language Learners
Cloud, Nancy; Lakin, Judah; Leininger, Erin
TESOL Journal, v2 n2 p132-155 Jun 2011
In this piece, a teacher educator and two secondary teachers describe how they implemented the Learners' Lives as Curriculum model (Weinstein, 2004) with adolescent English language learners using a unit from a pilot secondary curriculum titled Lives Unfolding (Weinstein & Cloud, 2007). They discuss the development and adaptation of the Names unit and how their work around this theme transformed their classrooms into participatory communities of successful and highly motivated English learners. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Teacher Educators, English (Second Language), Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Curriculum, Student Motivation, Personal Narratives, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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