Code Choice in the Language Classroom /
Glenn S. Levine.
- 1st ed.
- Toronto, ON : Multilingual Matters, 2011.
- xvii, 185 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART 1: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 1. Monolingual Norms and Multilingual Realities Code Choice in the Classroom, the Classroom in Society -- Code Choice and Language Pedagogy -- Five Myths about First Language Use in the Second Language -- Classroom -- Summary and Conclusion
2. The Conundrum of Babel: Toward a Theoretical Framework for a Multilingual Approach Striving for Monolingualism in a Multilingual World -- Why not a Psycholinguistic Approach to Classroom Code Choice? -- Sociocultural and Ecological Perspectives of Second -- Language Learning, Classroom Practice and Classroom Code Choice -- Tenets about Second Language Learning in Relation to Code Choice -- Summary and Conclusion
3. What is a Code? What is Code-Switching? Language and Code -- Code-Switching -- Summary and Conclusion PART 2: EMPIRICAL SUPPORT 4. The Code Choice Status Quo of the Language Classroom The First Language Elephant in the Room -- Empirical Research on Classroom Code Choice -- A Case Study of Two Language Classes -- Teasing out a Default Condition
5. Classroom Code Choice: Toward Becoming Bilingual Discourse Analysis as a Tool for Understanding Classroom -- Code Choice -- Example 5.1: An Activity in an Introductory German Class -- Example 5.2: A Discussion in an Intermediate German Class -- The Code Choice Status Quo -- Summary and Conclusion
PART 3: CURRICULUM 6. An Architecture of Classroom Code Choice Realizing the Multilingual Classroom Community of Practice -- Learner Training -- Co-Construction of Norms -- Multilingual Content Instruction -- Critical Reflection -- Summary and Conclusion
7. Getting from Marked to Unmarked and Back Again: Articulation of Multilingual Classroom Communities of Practice Principled Heterogeneity and Emerging Bilingualism -- Stage I: Co-Construction of Multilingual Norms -- Stage II: Emerging Multilingual Classroom -- Stage III: Multilingual Classroom Community of Practice
Summary and Conclusion EPILOGUE: Blessings of Babel References Index
"Code Choice in the Language Classroom argues that the foreign language classroom is and should be regarded as a multilingual community of practice rather than as a perpetually deficient imitator of an exclusive second-language environment. From a sociocultural and ecological perspective, Levine guides the reader through a theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical treatment of the important roles of the first language, and of code-switching practices, in the language classroom. Intended for SLA researchers, language teachers, language program directors, and graduate students of foreign languages and literatures, the book develops a framework for thinking about all aspects of code choice in the language classroom and offers concrete proposals for designing and carrying out instruction in a multilingual classroom community of practice." (Book Cover)
Intended for SLA researchers, language teachers, language program directors, and graduate students of foreign languages and literatures.
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Code switching (Linguistics) Bilingualism. Language and languages--Study and teaching.