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OverviewLanguage Teachers' Narratives of Practice is a collection of seventeen essays that examine personal and professional stories of, and by, language teachers in diverse Australian contexts. The voices of twenty-one Australian language teachers in all, describe teachers' own linguistic and cultural, personal and professional narratives, and how each narrative has informed the construction of their classroom language teaching practice to suit their teaching contexts. We see how teachers make individual responses to emerging pedagogies, developed through the lens of their personal experience and understanding of language and culture. In our invitations to these teachers to contribute chapters to the book, we have encouraged them to make visible the diversity within the Australian language teaching context. This is a new resource for use in a professional development context, for pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, tertiary teacher educators and researchers. This resource will serve as a practical text for teachers to draw on, to extend their own professional knowledge and classroom practice in relevant, useful and diverse areas. The narratives can be examined as case studies of teacher identity and life-worlds, development of pedagogies, intercultural learning, and the differentiation and adaptation needed in particular environments, within a diverse environment such as Australia. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lesley Harbon , Robyn MoloneyPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Edition: Unabridged edition Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.20cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9781443842570ISBN 10: 1443842575 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 28 March 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis is a fascinating book, not least for language teachers in Europe. The narratives are both personal and professional, as teachers tell about themselves as teachers and as learners and the links between the two. As one contributor puts it: 'Looking back, I can see how the varied experiences in my life have shaped the type of language teacher I am today.' The languages learnt and taught range from Noongar to Japanese passing through French, German, Latin, Indonesian and others. The teaching described includes 'heritage', 'intercultural', 'digital', 'immersion', 'community', with a focus sometimes on motivation and retention, sometimes on elite, gifted, privileged and sometimes on disadvantaged learners. Because each chapter brings a different story but also a different style of writing and narrating, the book is a fine representation of a multifarious teaching force which Australia is lucky to have. - Michael Byram Author InformationLesley Harbon is Associate Professor in Languages Education in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has published in the areas of language teacher professional development, bilingual education, intercultural language education and the impact of short term international experiences on language teacher knowledge about language.Robyn Moloney is a Senior Lecturer in Languages Education in the School of Education, Faculty of Human Sciences at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research publications include studies of intercultural language learning, language teacher development, heritage Japanese learners, and Chinese teaching in Australia. She has many years' experience in school language teaching. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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