This book explores sociocultural theories as they relate to language and literacy teaching and learning, and to professional preparation and development for language teachers. Language teachers and language teacher educators weave research, theory and practice together as they articulate and explore theoretical perspectives through detailed descriptions and analyses of practices.
Margaret R. Hawkins is a faculty member and Director of the ESL and bilingual teacher education and graduate programs in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her scholarship and teaching are in the areas of sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, qualitative research methodology, literacy, and critical applied linguistics. Research interests include language teacher education, language and literacy development for young English language learners in schools, and cross-cultural perspectives on home/school relations.
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Author Biographies 2004
Part 1: Introduction
Margaret R. Hawkins: Introduction
Part 2: Sociocultural Perspectives on Language and Learning
1 James Paul Gee: Learning Language as a Matter of Learning Social Languages within Discourses
Part 3: Sociocultural Approaches to Language Teacher Education
2 Pippa Stein: Re-sourcing Resources: Pedagogy, History and Loss in a Johannesburg Classroom
3 Jerri Willett and Sarah Miller: Transforming the Discourses of Teaching and Learning: Rippling Waters and Shifting Sands
4 Margaret R. Hawkins: Social Apprenticeships Through Mediated Learning in Language Teacher Education
Part 4: The Uptake of Sociocultural Approaches in Language Education
5 Jennifer Miller: Social Languages and Schooling: The Uptake of Sociocultural Perspectives in School
6 Alison Beynon: Tinker, Tailor, Teacher, Text: Using a Multiliteracies Approach to Remediate Reading
Part 5: Implications of Sociocultural Perspectives for Language Teacher Education
7 Donald Freeman: Language, Sociocultural Theory, and L2 Teacher Education: Examining the Technology of Subject Matter and the Architecture of Instruction
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