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Chapter Five: Language Learning and Discursive Practice
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Young, Richard F. – Language Learning, 2008
This chapter is framed by the three questions related to learning in Practice Theory posed by Johannes Wagner (2008): (1) What is learned?; (2) Who is learning?; and (3) Who is participating in the learning? These questions are addressed in two learning theories: Language Socialization and Situated Learning theory. In Language Socialization, the…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Socialization, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Theory
Creating Intentional Communities to Support English Language Learners in the Classroom
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Rance-Roney, Judith – English Journal, 2008
Judith Rance-Roney calls on teachers to form intentional learning communities within their classrooms. The Culture Share Club, initially conceived to provide scaffolding for ELL students to acquire English and pass the statewide test in English, legitimized student knowledge by benefitting all students as they prepared materials for lessons and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Intentional Learning, English (Second Language), Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Weaving Strands of Writer Identity: Self as Author and the NNES "Plagiarist"
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Ouellette, Mark A. – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2008
While plagiarism is often viewed in terms of ethical binaries, scholars in composition studies have recognized plagiarism as part of literacy practices governing identity construction. In this light, what is at stake is how writers construct identity by positioning stance-claims according to the standards of respective discourse communities. For…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Self Concept, Cultural Context, Discourse Communities
The English Classroom in the World: An Atelier at Work.
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Woods, Claire; Dias, Patrick; Ellis, Viv – English Quarterly, 1997
Sees English as the language of power and status, with a gatekeeper role in the economics and political contexts of many countries. Discusses the English classroom as a site that breaks down the barriers between the school discourse and the world discourses. Discusses specific classrooms where teachers, students, or community members take the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cultural Context, Curriculum Development, Discourse Communities
Classroom Discourse: The Language of Teaching and Learning. Second Edition.
Cazden, Courtney B. – 2001
Thirteen years after the first edition of this book, significant changes in social and intellectual life have made the subject of classroom discourse more important than ever, and this new edition integrates current perspectives and research. New features in the book include: a new rationale for the importance of student-teacher talk (the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills
Discourse Communities, Rites of Passage, and the Teaching of English: South Africa and the U.S.
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Nakadate, Neil – 1988
What made the teaching and learning experiences of a five-week pre-freshman composition primer course for minority students and a ten-session seminar on contemporary American literature for a group of teachers of English as a second language (ESL) from black and colored schools in South Africa so radically different for the professor who taught…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Discourse Communities, Educational Philosophy, English (Second Language)