Language for Teaching Purposes - Bilingual Classroom Discourse and the Non-Native Speaker Language Teacher

This book's innovative approach proposes Language for Teaching Purposes as a distinct field of enquiry and practice within Language for Specific Purposes. It uses robust theoretical and empirical evidence to demonstrate the specificity of language used by teachers teaching language, and the complex decisions teachers make around language choice and use in language classrooms. These complexities are shown to affect Non-native Speaker Language Teachers in particular so that their language needs must be met in teacher training programmes. Set in the Anglophone foreign language teaching world, this book will appeal to anyone involved in teacher training, language teaching or the investigation of classroom discourse.

List of contents

1 Introduction.2 Language for Specific Purposes: Theory and research. 3 Classroom discourse: defining the genre.4 The medium and the object: Foreign language classroom discourse.5 The non-native speaker language teacher.6 The non-native speaker language teacher as model bilingual.7 Target Task Analysis.8 Discussion. 

About the author

Emma Riordan is Lecturer in German and Applied Linguistics at University College Cork, Ireland. She has been a native speaking teacher of English and non-native speaking teacher of German for 15 years. Her research interests include language teaching and learning, discourse analysis, language policy and language teacher training.

Summary

Offers comprehensive insight into language teacher language use
Maintains a practical focus whilst being based in rigorous Applied Linguistics empirical research
Proposes course content based on the idea of target task analysis

Report

"The book covers a wide range of concepts and country case examples, making it appealing and relevant for those who believe in the cause of sustainable development, the green economy, and green growth. ... it will be of general interest to students of economics or those studying sustainable economic development policies." (Meltem Ucal, Environment, Development and Sustainability, Vol. 20, 2018)

Product details

• Authors: Emma Riordan
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783030100056
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3010005-6
• No. of pages: 227
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 212 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 323 g
• Illustrations: XV, 227 p. 30 illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Fremdsprachenerwerb, Fremdsprachendidaktik, B, Education, Zweisprachigkeit und Mehrsprachigkeit, Soziolinguistik, Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Social Sciences, Multilingualism, Applied Linguistics, Language Education, Language teaching and learning, Language and education, Language Policy and Planning, Language policy, Research Methods in Language and Linguistics, Language teaching & learning, Language and languages—Study and teaching, Language Teaching, Bilingualism, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics