Creating Classroom Communities of Learning

International Case Studies and Perspectives

Roger Barnard, María E. Torres-Guzmán

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9781847691125
• eBook ISBN: 9781847691149
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Education General
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

The case studies in this book are based on transcripts of classroom interaction in nine different countries. In each chapter, the first author explains the specific context and through a theoretical and/or experiential perspective interprets the transcript data. The data are then re-interpreted by other authors in the book, illustrating the complexity and richness of interpretation and creating a dialogue among the book's contributors. At the end of each chapter, readers are then invited with assistance to join in the conversation by providing their own interpretations of other transcript data from the same context. The book will be useful for student teachers or practicing professionals, as well as all educators interested in exploratory classroom research.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Contributors
• Transcript Conventions
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Under the Interactional Umbrella: Presentation and Collaboration in Japanese Classroom Discourse
• Chapter 2 Teaching Content, Learning Language: Socialising ESL Students into Classroom Practices in Australia
• Chapter 3 Socialisation and ‘Safetalk’ in an Upper Primary English Language Classroom in Brunei Darussalam
• Chapter 4 Negotiating Appropriateness inthe Second Language Within a Dual Language Education Classroom Setting
• Chapter 5 Interaction in a Taiwanese Primary School English Classroom
• Chapter 6 Learning Through Dialogue in a Primary School Classroom in England
• Chapter 7 Constructing Meaning in a Bilingual Learning Environment: Two Primary Classrooms in Malaysia
• Chapter 8 Creating a Community of Learning in New Zealand: A Case Study of Students in a New School
• Chapter 9 Language Socialization in a Canadian Secondary School Course: Talking About Current Events
• Afterword
• Index