Understanding the Language Classroom

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Introduction

   • Simon Gieve, Inés K. Miller

   Pages 1-10

3. Six Promising Directions in Applied Linguistics

   • Dick Allwright

   Pages 11-17

4. What Do We Mean by ‘Quality of Classroom Life’?

   • Simon Gieve, Inés K. Miller

   Pages 18-46

5. What Happens between People: Who We Are and What We Do

   • Adrian Holliday

   Pages 47-63

6. Managing Classroom Life

   • Tony Wright

   Pages 64-87

7. Who Does What in the ‘Management of Language Learning’? Planning and the Social Construction of the ‘Motivation to Notice’

   • Devon Woods

   Pages 88-114

8. Darwin and the Large Class

   • Hywel Coleman

   Pages 115-135

9. Recognizing Complexity in Adult Literacy Research and Practice

   • Ming-i Lydia Tseng, Roz Ivanič

   Pages 136-162

10. Language Lessons: A Complex, Local Co-Production of All Participants

    • Elaine E. Tarone

    Pages 163-174

11. Take 1, Take 2, Take 3: A Suggested Three-Stage Approach to Exploratory Practice

    • John F. Fanselow, Roger Barnard

    Pages 175-199

12. Collegial Development in ELT: The Interface between Global Processes and Local Understandings

    • Michael P. Breen

    Pages 200-225

13. Language Teacher Educators in Search of ‘Locally Helpful Understandings’

    • Maria Antonieta Alba Celani

    Pages 226-238

14. Teaching and Learning in ‘The Age of Reform’: The Problem of the Verb

    • Donald Freeman

    Pages 239-262

15. Back Matter

    Pages 263-275

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The starting point for this collection is a chapter by Dick Allwright on the language learning and teaching classroom experience entitled Six Promising Directions in Applied Linguistics. The other distinguished contributors respond to this discussion with their own interpretations and from their own experience. The collection problematizes prescription, efficiency, and technical solutions as orientations to classroom language learning. Complexity and idiosyncrasy, on the other hand, are recognized as central concepts in a move towards centralizing teachers' and learners' own understanding of 'classroom life', in the contexts of language learning, adult literacy education and language teacher education.

• language
• language classroom
• Language Learning
• linguistics
• literacy
• literary diction

'Once in a while you come across an edited volume that is hard to put down. Understanding the Language Classroom is one such rare volume...you will soon find yourself wanting to read evermore, for the views expressed in this volume are as diverse as the sixteen individuals that contributed to the wealth of information contained in this well-crafted work...it is an important addition to anyone's list of edited volumes on second languages and the complexity of learning, and I recommend it most highly...' - The Reading Matrix

• University of Leicester, UK

  Simon Gieve

• Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Inés K. Miller

DICK ALLWRIGHT formerly Chair in Applied Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK KATHLEEN M. BAILEY Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California, USA ROGER BARNARD Senior Lecturer at the Department of General and Applied Linguistics of the University of Waikato, New Zealand MICHAEL P. BREEN formerly involved in Language Education and Language Teacher Development MARIA ANTONIETA ALBA CELANI Professor Emerita at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brazil HYWEL COLEMAN Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education, University of Leeds, UK. He is also Director of HCIE Ltd, the international education consultancy JOHN F. FANSELOW currently the president of a 600 student residential tertiary institution in New Zealand, International Pacific College. He is Professor Emeritus of Columbia University, Teachers College, New York, USA DONALD FREEMAN Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies at the School forInternational Training, Brattleboro, Vermont, USA, where he also directs the Centre for Teacher Education, Training and Research ADRIAN HOLLIDAY Professor of Applied Linguistics at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK ROZ IVANIC Professor of Linguistics in Education at the Department of Linguistics and English Language, and Associate Director of the Literacy Research Centre at Lancaster University, UK ELAINE E. TARONE Director of the Centre for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA), and Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair of the English as a Second Language Program in the Institute of Linguistics, ESL and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota, USA MING-I LYDIA TSENG currently doing her Ph.D. research at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language, Lancaster University, UK TONY WRIGHT School of International Education at the College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, UK DEVON WOODS Associate Professor at Carleton University, Canada

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