Description
This book provides an invaluable and accessible resource for working with EAL students. It brings together the international experiences and expertise of a team of distinguished language educators who explore a range of teaching approaches and provide professionally-grounded practical advice. The chapters cover themes, references and pedagogic concerns common to teachers across the globe.
This book will be of use to individual teachers who want to extend their knowledge and practice, and also as a set text for professional development programmes.
Professor Constant Leung is Deputy Head of Department of Education and Professional Studies at King's College London.
Angela Creese is Professor of Educational Linguistics in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham
About the Author
Angela Creese is Professor of Educational Linguistics at the School of Education, University of Birmingham, and deputy director of the MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism. In the last ten years she has been funded to work in large multilingual research teams to research multilingualism. Her research interests are in linguistic ethnography, language ecologies, multilingualism in society and multilingual classroom pedagogy. Her publications include Heteroglossia as Practice and Pedagogy (with Adrian Blackledge, 2014, Springer); The Routledge handbook of Multilingualism (2012, with Marilyn Martin-Jones and Adrian Blackledge); Multilingualism: A Critical Perspective (with Adrian Blackledge, 2010, Continuum); Volume 9: Ecology of Language, Encyclopedia of Language and Education (2009); Teacher Collaboration and Talk in Multilingual Classrooms (2005) and Multilingual Classroom Ecologies (2003).
Book Information
ISBN 9781847875327
Author Constant Leung
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Sage Publications Ltd
Publisher Sage Publications Ltd
Weight(grams) 290g
