Voices From the Language Classroom : Qualitative research in second language education /
edited by Kathleen M. Bailey and David Nunan.
- New York : Cambridge University Press ; 1996.
- xiv, 466 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Cambridge Language Teaching Library .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This text is about what really happens in language classrooms.
This paperback edition is about what really happens in language classrooms, both those in which language is the topic of instruction and those where it functions primarily as the medium of instruction. In this collection of 19 original papers, the authors utilize a variety of research methods, with an emphasis on the collection and analysis of data. Chapters investigate such issues as language-related anxiety, curriculum renewal, classroom interaction, teachers' on-line decision-making, and sociopolitical concerns affecting life in schools." (Publisher's Website) CONTENTS:
Section I. Teaching as doing, thinking and interpreting
Chapter 1. The best laid plans: teachers' in-class decisions to depart from their lesson plans
Chapter 2. Hidden voices: insiders' perspectives on classroom interaction
Chapter 3. Teaching style: a way to understand instruction in language classrooms
Chapter 4. Redefining the relationship between research and what teachers know
Kathleen M. Bailey David Nunan Anne Katz Donald Freeman Section II. Classroom dynamics and interaction
Chapter 5. In or out of the action zone: location as a feature of interaction in large ESL classes in Pakistan
Chapter 6. Reticence and anxiety in second language learning
Chapter 7. A window on the classroom: classroom events viewed from different angles
Fauzia Shamim Amy B. M, Tsui
David Block Section III. The classroom and beyond
Chapter 8. Socializing with the teachers and prior language learning experience: a diary study
Chapter 9. Sardo revisited: voice, faith, and multiple repeaters
Chapter 10. Language learning diaries as mirrors of students' cultural sensitivity
Chapter 11. "I want to talk with them, but I don't want them to hear": an introspective study of second language anxiety in an English-medium school
Cherry Campbell Martha Clark Cummings Sabrina Peck Mick Hilleson Section IV. Curricular issues
Chapter 12. Look who's talking now: listening to voices in curriculum renewal
Chapter 13. U.S. language minority students: voices from the junior high classroom
Chapter 14. Voices for improved learning: the ethnographer as co-agent of pedagogic change
Chapter 15. Registration and placement: learner response
Ian Harrison Marguerite Ann Snow, John Hyland, Lia Kambi-Stein and Janet Harclerode Yu
Peter A. Shaw Peter Sturman Section V. Sociopolitical perspectives
Chapter 16. Conflicting voices: language, classrooms and bilingual education in Puno
Chapter 17. The functions of code switching among high school teachers and students in Kwazulu and implications for teacher education
Chapter 18. Different languages, different practices: socialization of discouse competence in dual-language school classrooms in Hungary
Chapter 19. The tapestry of diversity in our classrooms
Leo Van Lier Ralph D. Adendorff Patricia A. Duff
Denise E. Murray
9780521559041 (pbk) 0521559049 (pbk)
95009959
Language and languages--Study and teaching.
Qualitative research.
P51 / .V65 1996
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This text is about what really happens in language classrooms.
This paperback edition is about what really happens in language classrooms, both those in which language is the topic of instruction and those where it functions primarily as the medium of instruction. In this collection of 19 original papers, the authors utilize a variety of research methods, with an emphasis on the collection and analysis of data. Chapters investigate such issues as language-related anxiety, curriculum renewal, classroom interaction, teachers' on-line decision-making, and sociopolitical concerns affecting life in schools." (Publisher's Website) CONTENTS:
Section I. Teaching as doing, thinking and interpreting
Chapter 1. The best laid plans: teachers' in-class decisions to depart from their lesson plans
Chapter 2. Hidden voices: insiders' perspectives on classroom interaction
Chapter 3. Teaching style: a way to understand instruction in language classrooms
Chapter 4. Redefining the relationship between research and what teachers know
Kathleen M. Bailey David Nunan Anne Katz Donald Freeman Section II. Classroom dynamics and interaction
Chapter 5. In or out of the action zone: location as a feature of interaction in large ESL classes in Pakistan
Chapter 6. Reticence and anxiety in second language learning
Chapter 7. A window on the classroom: classroom events viewed from different angles
Fauzia Shamim Amy B. M, Tsui
David Block Section III. The classroom and beyond
Chapter 8. Socializing with the teachers and prior language learning experience: a diary study
Chapter 9. Sardo revisited: voice, faith, and multiple repeaters
Chapter 10. Language learning diaries as mirrors of students' cultural sensitivity
Chapter 11. "I want to talk with them, but I don't want them to hear": an introspective study of second language anxiety in an English-medium school
Cherry Campbell Martha Clark Cummings Sabrina Peck Mick Hilleson Section IV. Curricular issues
Chapter 12. Look who's talking now: listening to voices in curriculum renewal
Chapter 13. U.S. language minority students: voices from the junior high classroom
Chapter 14. Voices for improved learning: the ethnographer as co-agent of pedagogic change
Chapter 15. Registration and placement: learner response
Ian Harrison Marguerite Ann Snow, John Hyland, Lia Kambi-Stein and Janet Harclerode Yu
Peter A. Shaw Peter Sturman Section V. Sociopolitical perspectives
Chapter 16. Conflicting voices: language, classrooms and bilingual education in Puno
Chapter 17. The functions of code switching among high school teachers and students in Kwazulu and implications for teacher education
Chapter 18. Different languages, different practices: socialization of discouse competence in dual-language school classrooms in Hungary
Chapter 19. The tapestry of diversity in our classrooms
Leo Van Lier Ralph D. Adendorff Patricia A. Duff
Denise E. Murray
9780521559041 (pbk) 0521559049 (pbk)
95009959
Language and languages--Study and teaching.
Qualitative research.
P51 / .V65 1996