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Direct linkMagaly Lavadenz; Elvira G. Armas – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book presents a validated observation instrument to support and further develop the pedagogic expertise of teachers of English Learners in US schools. Based on sociocultural and second language teaching and learning theories, the Observation Protocol for Academic Literacies (OPAL) has a variety of uses across teacher preparation programs,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Walter, Daniel R. – Multilingual Matters, 2023
This book applies a psycholinguistic perspective to instructed second language acquisition, seeking to bridge the gap between second language acquisition research and language teaching practices. It challenges the traditional divide between conscious and unconscious processes, or explicit and implicit learning, and re-envisions this as a continuum…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Wernicke, Meike, Ed.; Hammer, Svenja, Ed.; Hansen, Antje, Ed.; Schroedler, Tobias, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2021
This collection examines a diverse range of approaches to multilingualism in teacher education programmes across Europe and North America. The authors investigate how pre-service teachers are being prepared to work in multilingual contexts and discuss the key features of current pre-service teacher education initiatives that address the increasing…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education
Larrotta, Clarena – Multilingual Matters, 2019
This book centralizes the narratives of adult English language learners, teachers, and trainee teachers in the development of a humanistic language pedagogy; their strengths, concerns, and stories inform this practical guide to adult literacy development and English language-culture learning and teaching. The author sets the need to educate the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Behrens, Susan J. – Multilingual Matters, 2018
It is clear that a proper understanding of what academic English is and how to use it is crucial for success in college, and yet students face multiple obstacles in acquiring this new 'code', not least that their professors often cannot agree among themselves on a definition and a set of rules. "Understanding Language Use in the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Classroom Communication, Instructional Materials, Web Sites
Adger, Carolyn Temple, Ed.; Snow, Catherine E., Ed.; Christian, Donna, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2018
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 how teacher education might help them gain that…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Behrens, Susan J. – Multilingual Matters, 2014
It is clear that a proper understanding of what academic English is and how to use it is crucial for success in college, and yet students face multiple obstacles in acquiring this new "code", not least that their professors often cannot agree amongst themselves on a definition and a set of rules. "Understanding Language Use in the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Classroom Communication, Academic Discourse, Language Research
Kormos, Judit; Smith, Anne Margaret – Multilingual Matters, 2012
This book is intended to help language teachers to work effectively and successfully with students who have specific learning differences (SpLD) such as dyslexia. The book takes an inclusive and practical approach to language teaching and encourages teachers to consider the effects that an SpLD could have on a language learner. It suggests…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Language Acquisition, Textbook Content, Learning Disabilities
Leahy, Anna, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2005
This book remaps theories and practices for teaching creative writing at university and college level. This collection critiques well-established approaches for teaching creative writing in all genres and builds a comprehensive and adaptable pedagogy based on issues of authority, power, and identity. A long-needed reflection, this book shapes…
Descriptors: Mentors, Grading, Creative Writing, Writing Instruction
