Language Education

Ethnographic fieldwork: A beginner's guide (Blommaert & Dong 2010)

by Jan Blommaert

Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education: Language, Literacy, and Culture. Routledge, 2010.

by Marcia Farr

Edited book.

An Introduction to Teaching English Learners in Elementary Schools: Three Workshops for Pre-Service Teachers

by Andrea Hellman

The volume contains materials - handouts and presentation slides - for three workshops (2.5 days) to introduce... more The volume contains materials - handouts and presentation slides - for three workshops (2.5 days) to introduce elementary teacher education candidates to teaching English learners in mainstream classes. The content is also appropriate for a 1-credit university course or school-based teacher professional development of elementary in-service teachers in WIDA states.

Game [not] over. I videogiochi come strumento per la glottodidattica ludica

by Ivan Lombardi

in press

Unit: Communications (The Greek Curriculum, K/R-8)

by Pavlos Andronikos

Edited by P. Andronikos, J. Burke, & P. Tuffin (Melbourne: Victoria & South Australia Education Departments, 1984+). 68pp.

The NNEST Lens: Non Native English Speakers in TESOL

by Ahmar Mahboob

A review of this book is available at: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/reviews/get-review.cfm?subid=4528642

The NNEST Lens invites you to imagine how the field of TESOL and applied linguistics can develop if we use the... more The NNEST Lens invites you to imagine how the field of TESOL and applied linguistics can develop if we use the multilingual, multicultural, and multinational perspectives of a NNEST (Non Native English Speakers in TESOL) lens to re-examine our assumptions, practices, and theories in the field. The NNEST lens as described in and developed through this volume is a lens of multilingualism, multinationalism, and multiculturalism through which NNESTs and NESTs—as classroom practitioners, researchers, and teacher educators—take diversity as a starting point in their understanding and practice of their profession. The 16 original contributions to this volume include chapters that question theoretical frameworks and research approaches used in studies in applied linguistics and TESOL, as well as chapters that share strategies and approaches to classroom teaching, teacher education, and education management and policy. As such, this volume will be of interest to a wide range of students, practitioners, researchers, and academics in the fields of education and linguistics.

Education and Professional Development of Language Teachers in Europe

by Gudrun Ziegler

Edited special issue

Die neue Ausgabe von ForumSprache besitzt einen thematischen Schwerpunkt: Ausbildung
und Professionalisierung von... more Die neue Ausgabe von ForumSprache besitzt einen thematischen Schwerpunkt: Ausbildung
und Professionalisierung von Sprachlehrkräften in Europa. Das Schwerpunktthema wird im ersten Beitrag von Gudrun Ziegler genauer vorgestellt. Dabei greift sie auf Ergebnisse eines europäischen Projekts zurück, das im Auftrag der Europäischen
Kommission 2009 durchgeführt wurde. Die weiteren Beiträge zum Thema sind im besten Sinne europäisch und stammen aus Großbritannien, Luxemburg, der Schweiz, Spanien, Rumänien und Ungarn.

This new issue of ForumSprache again has a central topic: education and professional development of language teachers in Europe. Gudrun Ziegler’s paper introduces the
topic by outlining the main results of a European project, which was run in 2009; her article also puts the following contributions from Hungary, Luxemburg, Spain, Switzerland, Rumania, and the UK into context.

Multiliteracies and Technology Enhanced Education: Social Practice and the Global Classroom

by David R Cole

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Recently, educators have begun to consider what is required in literacy curricula and best teaching practices given... more Recently, educators have begun to consider what is required in literacy curricula and best teaching practices given the demands placed on the educator sector and on literacy in general.

Multiliteracies and Technology Enhanced Education: Social Practice and the Global Classroom features theoretical reflections and approaches on the use of multiliteracies and technologies in the improvement of education and social practices. Assisting educators at different teaching levels and fostering professional development and progress in this growing field, this innovative publication supports practitioners concerned with teaching at both a local and global level.

Multiple Literacies Theory: A Deleuzian Perspective

by David R Cole

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The essays in this book think through and with Deleuzian concepts in the educational field. The resultant encounters... more The essays in this book think through and with Deleuzian concepts in the educational field. The resultant encounters between concepts such as multiplicity, becoming, habit and affect and Multiple Literacies Theory exemplify philosophically inspired and productive thinking.

Paul Patton, Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales

Taking one of the most exciting voices of the twentieth century beyond the range of philosophy and theory this edited volume provides a timely intervention into the problem of literacy. More than the simple application of Deleuze to the question of reading this stunningly bold and incisive collection of essays will make all of us think again about what it is to read and think. Masny and Cole have assembled an impressive range of contributions that will open up new avenues for research and thinking for years to come.

Claire Colebrook, Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh

Education is now so littered with ‘literacies’ that the term seems almost disposable – an empty signifier – but at the same time obsessions with literacy testing have reduced much literacies research to tiresome debates about the pros and cons of this or that approach to reading instruction. Exploring more fertile territories, Multiple Literacies Theory stages a dozen exhilarating encounters between Gilles Deleuze’s philosophical concepts and each contributing author’s approach to representing and performing multiplicity in literacies research. Although I usually avoid metaphors that insinuate violence, I see Multiple Literacies Theory as an example of what the late Timothy Leary called a ‘transitional meaning-grenade thrown over the language barricades’ – a weapon of non-destruction that produces an explosion of possibilities for destabilising conventional wisdoms (including fashionable contemporary positions coded by terms such as ‘multiliteracies’ and ‘multimodal literacies’), and clearing the ground for new materialisations of ‘becoming literate’ in conditions of complexity, multiplicity and uncertainty.

Noel Gough, Foundation Professor of Outdoor and Environmental Education, Director (Learning, Teaching & International), Faculty of Education, La Trobe University, Australia.

Multiliteracies in Motion: Current theory & practice

by David R Cole

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The realities of new technological and social conditions since the 1990s demand a new approach to literacy teaching.... more The realities of new technological and social conditions since the 1990s demand a new approach to literacy teaching. Looking onward from the original statement of aims of the multiliteracies movement in 1996, this volume brings together top-quality scholarship and research that has embraced the notion and features new contributions by many of the originators of this approach to literacy.

Drawing on large research projects and empirical evidence, the authors explore practical and educational issues that relate to multiliteracies, such as assessment, pedagogy and curriculum. The viewpoint taken is that multiliteracies is a complementary socio-cultural approach to the new literacies that includes pedagogy and learning. The differences are addressed from a multiliteracies perspective – one that does not discount or undermine the new literacies, but shows new ways in which they are complementary.

Computers and the internet are transforming the way we work and communicate and the very notion of literacy itself. This volume offers frontline information and a vital update for those wishing to understand the evolution of multiliteracies and the current state of literacy theory in relation to it.