
Humor in the Classroom
A Guide for Language Teachers and Educational Researchers
- 204 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Humor in the Classroom
A Guide for Language Teachers and Educational Researchers
About this book
Humor in the Classroom provides practical, research-based answers to questions that educational researchers and language teachers might have about the social and cognitive benefits that humor and language play afford in classroom discourse and additional language learning. The book considers the ways in which humor, language play, and creativity can construct new possibilities for classroom identity, critique prevailing norms, and reconfigure particular relations of power. Humor in the Classroom encourages educational researchers and language teachers to take a fresh look at the workings of humor in today's linguistically diverse classrooms and makes the argument for its role in building a stronger foundation for studies of classroom discourse, theories of additional language development, and approaches to language pedagogy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Language, Communication, and Education
- 2 Humor and Language Play
- 3 Understanding Classroom Talk
- 4 Playing It Safe
- 5 Humor, Learning, and Additional Language Development
- 6 Teachers and Humor: Weighing the Risks and Benefits
- 7 Teaching With Humor
- 8 Teaching About Humor
- 9 Researching Humor and Language Play
- Appendix: Transcription Conventions
- Index