Download or read book Sociocultural Competence in Language Learning and Teaching written by Geneviève Zarate and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The linguistic integration of adult migrants from one country to another from one language to another written by Council of Europe and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The linguistic integration of migrants affects every aspect of settling in a new country (employment, health, etc.). The aim of this collection of texts is to propose a number of specific measures member states can take to help adult migrants become acquainted with the language of the host country. The main focus is on organising language courses that meet migrants’ real communication needs. It is not enough for authorities simply to consider the technical aspects of such courses, they should also design and conduct them in accordance with the fundamental values of the Council of Europe. A number of issues concerning the linguistic integration of adult migrants are presented here, beginning with the notion of linguistic integration itself. Family reunion, the nature of citizenship and the function of language tests, among others, are dealt with from the point of view of language and language use. Readers are invited to reflect on the type of language competences that need to be acquired as well as an appropriate use of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The collection also sets out approaches and instruments designed to assist in implementing effective policies.

Download or read book Handbook of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism written by Geneviève Zarate and published by Archives contemporaines. This book was released on 2011 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built around the concept of linguistic and cultural plurality, this book defines language as an instrument of action and symbolic power. Plurality is conceived here as : a complex array of voices, perspectives and approaches that seeks to preserve the complexity of the multilingual and multicultural enterprise, including language learning and teaching ; a coherent system of relationships among various languages, research traditions and research sites that informs qualitative methods of inquiry into multilingualism and its uses in everyday life ; a view of language as structured sociohistorical object, observable from several simultaneous spatiotemporal standpoints, such as that of daily interactions or that which sustains the symbolic power of institutions. This book is addressed to teacher trainers, young researchers, decision makers, teachers concerned with the role of languages in the evolution of societies and educational systems. It aims to elicit discussion by articulating practices, field observations and analyses based on a multidisciplinary conceptual framework.

Download or read book Fragile Majorities and Education written by Marie McAndrew and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How groups growing into majority status respond to old conflicts and increasing ethnic diversity in their societies.

Download or read book Teaching and Learning Second Language Listening written by Christine C. M. Goh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader-friendly text, firmly grounded in listening theories and supported by recent research findings, offers a comprehensive treatment of concepts and knowledge related to teaching second language (L2) listening, with a particular emphasis on metacognition. The metacognitive approach, aimed at developing learner listening in a holistic manner, is unique and groundbreaking. The book is focused on the language learner throughout; all theoretical perspectives, research insights, and pedagogical principles in the book are presented and discussed in relation to the learner. The pedagogical model─a combination of the tried-and-tested sequence of listening lessons and activities that show learners how to activate processes of skilled listeners ─ provides teachers with a sound framework for students’ L2 listening development to take place inside and outside the classroom. The text includes many practical ideas for listening tasks that have been used successfully in various language learning contexts.

Download or read book Bengali English in East London written by Sebastian M. Rasinger and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of language and language use within the Bangladeshi community in the East London borough of Tower Hamlets. Based on a corpus of spontaneous speech data collected within the area, the book provides the reader with an overview of the linguistic characteristics of 'Bengali-English' as well as patterns of language use.

Download or read book Contemporary Carib speaking Amerindians written by Ernst Halbmayer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Displacement Planet Earth written by Kristine M. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is for teachers and all educators, program builders, and policymakers to learn about your students and to learn strategies. To learn about students, you will learn for example about English Language Learners in the U.S. and Australia, Muslim females who wear the scarf, undocumented students, displaced Albanian-Kosavars, refugee resettlement programs, deaf students. All types of educators can also learn about programs in Australia, Portugal, France, and Spain. Strategies are suggested for critical media literacy, inter- and trans-cultural understanding, professional development for all types of educators and especially ELL, best practices of schools with programs for displaced students. The book addresses issues of teacher education and school policy, in a context of media representation, the heightened security environment of Western nations and fear factors like Islamophobia. Misrepresented cultures and ways of life are pretexts to reject languages and repositories of knowledge. Displaced children and youth must negotiate the difficult process of integration, affecting their identities and society as a whole. The issue is how to cultivate the distinctiveness rather than merely assimilate through language and standardized content. The theme of the book is Language Education Policy for a new nomenclature for displaced students, ie newcomers, neighbors & guests. The book brings together narratives of experience and approaches that provide a deep rationale for LEP that addresses the realities. We hope to transform the dominant paradigm of what are really linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms.Chapters help teachers address: The presence of displaced students, whether first generation or beyond, and in both western and non-western (or north-south) countries; fosters the cultivation of the distinctiveness of their languages and cultures. How can teachers, schools, and policymakers deal with non-dominant languages and non-standardized knowledge?Language Education Policies and teachers¿ practices can help repair the contextual, psychological, ideological and social fabric of human lives and societies impacted by misconceptions based on language ideologies and language status that lead to miscommunication, discrimination, social divisions, violence, war, and human struggle, especially for those displaced.

Download or read book Signs and Symbols in Education written by Francois Victor Tochon and published by Deep University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this monograph on Educational Semiotics, Francois Victor Tochon has produced a work that is truly groundbreaking on a number of fronts. First of all, in his concise but brilliant introductory comments, Tochon clearly debunks the notion that semiotics might provide yet another methodological tool in the toolkit of educational researchers. Drawing skillfully on the work of Peirce, Deely, Sebeok, Merrell, and others, Tochon shows us just how fundamentally different semiotic research can be when compared to the modes and techniques that have dominated educational research for many decades. He points out how semiotic methods can provide the capability for both students and researchers to look at this basic and fundamental human process in inescapably transformational ways, by acknowledging and accepting that the path to knowledge is, in his words "through the fixation of belief." In four brilliantly conceived studies, he shows us how semiotic concepts in general, and semiotic mapping in particular, can allow both student teachers and researchers alike insights in these students' development of insights and concepts into the very heart of the teaching and learning process. By tackling both theoretical and practical research considerations, Tochon has provided the rest of us the beginnings of a blueprint that, if adopted, can push educational research out of its entrenchment in the Age of Ideas into the new and exciting frontiers of the Age of Signs. This is a brilliant book and should be read not only by semioticians and educators, but also by anyone who wants to understand how we learn above and beyond the instinctual biological system with which we are endowed. Marcel Danesi, Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Toronto What does semiotics, often seen as an abstract theorization of how symbols function, have to say to educators trying to do the difficult job of supporting student learning? Francois Victor Tochon offers us a sampling of practical teaching and research tools based in semiotic principles that help move education away from fixed methods, best practices, and rigid content standards toward understanding learning as coming at meaning sideways and creatively, always re-defining, re-imagining, and improvising for our own purposes here and now. Educators and education researchers sorely need to learn this lesson. Jay Lemke, Department of Communication, University of California-San Diego Educational Semiotics is a highly original work of scholarship. In four ingeniously designed studies, Francois Tochon demonstrates how semiotic analysis can be used to deconstruct the professional learning experiences of preservice teachers. These studies offer startling insights into the creative application of semiotic methods, the understanding of long standing issues in teacher education, and the nature of learning in situated contexts. Thus, this book is helpful to semioticians, teacher educators, and all those interested in how professionals learn through experience. The implications of his work are profound and their potential for further investigation is enormous. Tochon is pointing the way to a new field of endeavor that he has termed Educational Semiotics. John Henning, former President of Semiotics in Education at the American Educational Research Association, Ohio University Tochon's raises contemporary questions about the search for meaning and the processes through which we make meaning. His work demonstrates that meaning classifications are not products of a static system, but rather dynamic events which reshape their organizing as a continuous process of meaning creation. The four studies in this book are rich, flexible, and reflect critical knowledge transformation. Elvira Kati, Semiotic Society of America, Professor of Education, Ramapo College of New Jersey"

Download or read book Deep University written by Francois Victor Tochon and published by Deep University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents Deep University, its philosophy and education principles, its online environment and programs, its prospective architecture and partnerships, its business plan as well as legal and financial aspects related to Deep University.

Download or read book Developing Academic Literacy written by British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes. Conference and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected papers presented at the conference held by BALEAP (British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes) at the University of Southampton in the spring of 2003.

Download or read book Early Childhood Literacy written by Timothy Shanahan and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are today's best practices in early literacy instruction--and what should schools and programs focus on in the future? More than 20 of the biggest names in early literacy research give you balanced, insightful answers, using the landmark NELP

Download or read book Portable Digital Microscope written by Isabelle Clara Druc and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the use of new portable digital microscopes for analysis of archaeological ceramics in the field or laboratory.

Download or read book Help Them Learn a Language Deeply written by Francois Victor Tochon and published by Deep University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tochon's Deep Approach is a convergence of what worked best in earlier approaches to learning foreign languages and cultures. Its holistic scope allows for more student autonomy and works for the planet and society while working on the language. The instructional principles I believe in for teachers are to: Go by the results of motivation research, and provide incentives for self-directed learning and self-determination. Help students build their curriculum through their own literacy-based thematic units, indexing all language modalities to each other. Emphasize process rather than outcomes; refer to instructional organizers in forward planning rather than goals or outcomes in a backward planning. Encourage individualized, peer-oriented, and small group project-based learning, focusing on cultural content and social action; Give primacy to text. Consider grammar as storytelling about language; target extensive reading/viewing and intensive writing/recording. Use deep formative feedback and empowerment evaluation. Integrate self-evaluations and peer-evaluations. Focus on value creation: highlight critical issues related to the respect of other languages and cultures, language status and invisible or open discrimination, the colonial mindset versus principles of social justice, and linguistic human rights for peace building. Here is what makes this approach distinct: The students are placed in charge of building their own curriculum and projects to achieve their own desired expertise, using accountability measures through instructional agreements. The basis of the students' curriculum building is the teacher's provision of literary and multimedia resources organized adaptively. The teacher becomes expert in scaffolding and facilitating feedback. Knowledge is not a 'thing' that can be taught as an object: it is understood as deep, subjective and intersubjective, inseparable from the identity process. The focus is on deep processing, not standardized outcomes similar for all. There is room for diversity and flexibility, non-native speaker comfort, code-switching, and unique perspectives. It targets transdisciplinary values for a more sensible and wiser world-this way language learning becomes the means toward conflict resolution, ending war and poverty, re-greening the planet, and turning to politics for the human. In summary, understanding the Deep Approach is seeing Education and schooling in an "avant-garde" way "

Download or read book Medieval Slavic Lives of Saints and Princes written by Marvin Kantor and published by University of Michigan Department of Slavic Lang Ures. This book was released on 1983 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Language Education Policy and Peace written by Francois Victor Tochon and published by Deep University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-21 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The edited book focuses on the relationships between Language Education Policy studies and Peace Education.

Download or read book Science Teachers Who Draw written by Merrie Koester and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This a book which asks, "What happens when science teachers adopt an aesthetic approach to inquiry, using drawing to communicate deep understanding?" The book documents the ways in which science teacher researchers used drawing to construct semiotic spaces inside which students acquired significant aesthetic capital and agency.