Learning English at school : identity, social relations, and classroom practice / Kelleen Toohey.
"This book focuses on a common set of circumstances in Canada, the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand in which increasing numbers of young children from minority language backgrounds are taught in mainstream English-medium classrooms. It provides a longitudinal ethnography of a g...
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Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo :
Multilingual Matters,
2000.
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| Series: | Bilingual education and bilingualism
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Framing Story: Theory, Setting and Methodology
- Learners and Learning in Second Language Acquisition Research
- Learners as Socially/Historically/Politically Constructed
- Learning as Socially/Historically/Politically Constructed
- The Sociality of Development
- The Dialogic Perspective
- Communities of Practice
- Research Questions
- The Research Site
- Methodology
- 2. Kindergarten Stories
- Life in Kindergarten
- The Children's Stories
- Coda
- 3. Constructing School Identities: Kindergarten Meta-stories
- Being a Child/Becoming a Student
- Aspects of School Identity
- 4. 'Break them up, take them away': Practices in the Grade 1 Classroom
- Sitting in Your Own Desk
- Using Your Own Things
- Using Your Own Words and Ideas
- 5. Discursive Practices in Grade 2 Language Arts Lessons
- Language Arts Lessons
- Recitation sequences
- Teacher-Mandated Partner and Small Group Conversations
- Student-Managed Conversations
- 6. Appropriating Voices and Telling Stories
- Identity, Resource Distribution and Discourse Practices in Classrooms
- Access to Voice
- Facilitating Access
- Instructional Conversations
- The Politics of Representation
- Conversations, Not Collaborations
- Future SLA Research
- References
- Index.