Language Awareness in the Classroom [Paperback]

Language Awareness in the Classroomaddresses the central educational question of the impact that explicit language knowledge has on learning and language learning.

A substantial Introduction defines the issues and key concepts and relates them to contemporary educational policy and practice in Europe and internationally. The papers are organised into four thematic sections: the extent and nature of language awareness in teacher education; school-based language awareness programmes; tertiary education initiatives and modes of evaluation of language awareness programmes.


The Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements

Section I: Introduction
1. The scope of Language Awarness, Carl James and Peter Garrett

Section II: Language Awareness in teacher training and education
2. Language Awareness in teacher education, Christopher Brumfit
3. Teacher's views of language knowledge, Rosamond Mitchell
4. Linguistic diversity and Language Awareness: the views of primary school teachers, Guy Merchant
5. Language Awareness in teacher education programmes for non-native speakers, Tony Wright
6. Language Awareness and second language development, Howard Nicholas

Section III: Language Awareness in schools
7. Language Awareness and the teaching of English language in the upper secondary school, Tony Tinkel
8. Old problems and new solutions: LA work in GCSE foreign language classrooms, Gillian Donmall
9. Authentic texts, pedagogical grammar and Language Awareness in foreign language learning, David Little and David Singleton
10. The potential of Language Awareness as a focus for cross-curricular work in the secondary school, Jim Anderson
11. Switching off: learners' plc