Teaching Language As Action in the ELA Classroom: Decentralizing the Metropolis

This book explores English language arts instruction from the perspective of language as "social actions" that students and teachers enact with and toward one another to create supportive, trusting relations between students and teachers, and among students as peers. Departing from a code-...

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Main Authors: Beach, Richard (Author), Beauchemin, Faythe (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton Routledge 2019
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Links:https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429398537
Summary:This book explores English language arts instruction from the perspective of language as "social actions" that students and teachers enact with and toward one another to create supportive, trusting relations between students and teachers, and among students as peers. Departing from a code-based view of language as a set of systems or structures, the perspective of languaging as social actions takes up language as emotive, embodied, and inseparable from the intellectual life of the classroom. Through extensive classroom examples, the book demonstrates how elementary and secondary ELA teachers can apply a languaging perspective. Beach and Beauchemin employ pedagogical cases and activities to illustrate how to enhance students' engagement in open-ended discussions, responses to literature, writing for audiences, drama activities, and online interactions. The authors also offer methods for fostering students' self-reflection to improve their sense of agency associated with enhancing relations in face-to-face, rhetorical, and online contexts
Item Description:Relational Framing of Events: Expecting the Unexpected
Physical Description:1 online resource (210 pages)
ISBN:9781000000115
1000000117
9780429398537
0429398530
9781000013474
1000013472
9781000006940
1000006948