Author: Julia M. Dobson
Publisher:
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Category : Conversation
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Effective Techniques for English Conversation Groups
Author: Julia M. Dobson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conversation
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conversation
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Academic Conversations
Author: Jeff Zwiers
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003843298
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Conversing with others has given insights to different perspectives, helped build ideas, and solve problems. Academic conversations push students to think and learn in lasting ways. Academic conversations are back-and-forth dialogues in which students focus on a topic and explore it by building, challenging, and negotiating relevant ideas. In Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings authors Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford address the challenges teachers face when trying to bring thoughtful, respectful, and focused conversations into the classroom. They identify five core communications skills needed to help students hold productive academic conversation across content areas: Elaborating and Clarifying Supporting Ideas with Evidence Building On and/or Challenging Ideas Paraphrasing Synthesizing This book shows teachers how to weave the cultivation of academic conversation skills and conversations into current teaching approaches. More specifically, it describes how to use conversations to build the following: Academic vocabulary and grammar Critical thinking skills such as persuasion, interpretation, consideration of multiple perspectives, evaluation, and application Literacy skills such as questioning, predicting, connecting to prior knowledge, and summarizing An academic classroom environment brimming with respect for others' ideas, equity of voice, engagement, and mutual support The ideas in this book stem from many hours of classroom practice, research, and video analysis across grade levels and content areas. Readers will find numerous practical activities for working on each conversation skill, crafting conversation-worthy tasks, and using conversations to teach and assess. Academic Conversations offers an in-depth approach to helping students develop into the future parents, teachers, and leaders who will collaborate to build a better world.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003843298
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Conversing with others has given insights to different perspectives, helped build ideas, and solve problems. Academic conversations push students to think and learn in lasting ways. Academic conversations are back-and-forth dialogues in which students focus on a topic and explore it by building, challenging, and negotiating relevant ideas. In Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings authors Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford address the challenges teachers face when trying to bring thoughtful, respectful, and focused conversations into the classroom. They identify five core communications skills needed to help students hold productive academic conversation across content areas: Elaborating and Clarifying Supporting Ideas with Evidence Building On and/or Challenging Ideas Paraphrasing Synthesizing This book shows teachers how to weave the cultivation of academic conversation skills and conversations into current teaching approaches. More specifically, it describes how to use conversations to build the following: Academic vocabulary and grammar Critical thinking skills such as persuasion, interpretation, consideration of multiple perspectives, evaluation, and application Literacy skills such as questioning, predicting, connecting to prior knowledge, and summarizing An academic classroom environment brimming with respect for others' ideas, equity of voice, engagement, and mutual support The ideas in this book stem from many hours of classroom practice, research, and video analysis across grade levels and content areas. Readers will find numerous practical activities for working on each conversation skill, crafting conversation-worthy tasks, and using conversations to teach and assess. Academic Conversations offers an in-depth approach to helping students develop into the future parents, teachers, and leaders who will collaborate to build a better world.
Resources in Education
Author:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Limited English Proficiency Students in Wisconsin: Hispanic students (Cuban), Indochinese students (Cambodian), Native American students (Chippewa)
Author: Constance K. Knop
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Category : Education, Bilingual
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Bilingual
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Toward Free Conversation and Communication in the Foreign Language Classroom
Author: Constance K. Knop
Publisher:
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Teaching Foreign Language Skills
Author: Wilga M. Rivers
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022651885X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Since its original publication in 1968, Rivers's comprehensive and practical text has become a standard reference for both student teachers and veteran instructors. All who wish to draw from the most recent thinking in the field will welcome this new edition. Methodology is appraised, followed up by discussions on such matters as keeping students of differing abilities active, evaluating textbooks, using language labs creatively, and preparing effective exercises and drills. The author ends each chapter of this new edition with questions for research and discussion—a useful classroom tool—and provides an up-to-date bibliography that facilitates further understanding of such matters as the bilingual classroom.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022651885X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Since its original publication in 1968, Rivers's comprehensive and practical text has become a standard reference for both student teachers and veteran instructors. All who wish to draw from the most recent thinking in the field will welcome this new edition. Methodology is appraised, followed up by discussions on such matters as keeping students of differing abilities active, evaluating textbooks, using language labs creatively, and preparing effective exercises and drills. The author ends each chapter of this new edition with questions for research and discussion—a useful classroom tool—and provides an up-to-date bibliography that facilitates further understanding of such matters as the bilingual classroom.
Keep Talking
Author: Friederike Klippel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521278716
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Here is a practical tool for teaching communication in the language classroom, suitable for use with students from elementary to advanced level. The book contains instructions for over 100 different participatory exercises. For each activity, notes are provided for organization, time, and preparation. A comprehensive table of activities and an index also are included. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521278716
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Here is a practical tool for teaching communication in the language classroom, suitable for use with students from elementary to advanced level. The book contains instructions for over 100 different participatory exercises. For each activity, notes are provided for organization, time, and preparation. A comprehensive table of activities and an index also are included. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
A Manual for Indochinese Refugee Education, 1976-1977
Author: National Indochinese Clearinghouse and Technical Assistance Center
Publisher:
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Category : Refugees
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Refugees
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Academic Days of Timişoara
Author: Georgeta Raţă
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443833169
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Academic Days of Timişoara: Language Education Today is a book of the proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium “Language Education Today: Between Theory and Practice” held in Timişoara, Romania, on May 6–7, 2011, under the auspices of the Romanian Academy. It will appeal to teachers of modern languages no matter the level of instruction. The papers it contains deal with two main approaches of the teaching of languages in Europe, Asia, North America and South America: linguistics (theoretical linguistics: English, French, German, Serbian, and Swiss French; descriptive linguistics: Albanian, English, French, German, Italian, Romanian, Spanish and Serbian; applied linguistics: Albanian, Aromanian, Bahasa Malaysia, Bosnian, Croatian, English, German, Hungarian, Italian, Persian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Turkish) and languages for specific purposes (Croatian, English, French, German, Japanese, Romanian, Russian, Ruthenian, Serbian, and Spanish).
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443833169
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Academic Days of Timişoara: Language Education Today is a book of the proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium “Language Education Today: Between Theory and Practice” held in Timişoara, Romania, on May 6–7, 2011, under the auspices of the Romanian Academy. It will appeal to teachers of modern languages no matter the level of instruction. The papers it contains deal with two main approaches of the teaching of languages in Europe, Asia, North America and South America: linguistics (theoretical linguistics: English, French, German, Serbian, and Swiss French; descriptive linguistics: Albanian, English, French, German, Italian, Romanian, Spanish and Serbian; applied linguistics: Albanian, Aromanian, Bahasa Malaysia, Bosnian, Croatian, English, German, Hungarian, Italian, Persian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Turkish) and languages for specific purposes (Croatian, English, French, German, Japanese, Romanian, Russian, Ruthenian, Serbian, and Spanish).
Forum
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description