Rod Bolitho

This textbook aims to raise teachers’ language awareness, to emphasise the importance of language and communication in enabling young people to reach their potential, and to develop their knowledge of how language and communication function in educational environments as well as outside. Laid out in a clear five-unit structure, and complemented by a range of classroom activities, reflective exercises, and case study examples from around the world, this book addresses the need for teachers to become more linguistically aware and sensitive in an accessible and reader-friendly way. It is an essential resource for pre-service and in-service teachers working with a range of age groups across the curriculum.

This book considers the importance of language education in a rapidly changing world. The authors look at language education from different perspectives: the teaching and learning of foreign or second languages; the role of literacy, oracy and language across the curriculum; the part played by different stakeholders in educational policy; and the current state of language teacher education and the ways in which language is addressed in the education of teachers of all subjects. Drawing on their extensive experience of language education, and on case studies and data from around the world, the authors consider how a different approach to language in education might help students to develop the language awareness and linguistic and communicative competences they need in order to participate fully and confidently in our increasingly diverse societies. Chapter 1 and Chapter 10 are free to download as open access publications under a CC BY NC ND licence. You can access them here: Chapter 1. The Crucial Role of Language in Education: https://zenodo.org/record/8282422 Chapter 10. Language in Education, and in Teacher Education: Towards New Paradigms: https://zenodo.org/record/8282728

This book considers the importance of language education in a rapidly changing world. The authors look at language education from different perspectives: the teaching and learning of foreign or second languages; the role of literacy, oracy and language across the curriculum; the part played by different stakeholders in educational policy; and the current state of language teacher education and the ways in which language is addressed in the education of teachers of all subjects. Drawing on their extensive experience of language education, and on case studies and data from around the world, the authors consider how a different approach to language in education might help students to develop the language awareness and linguistic and communicative competences they need in order to participate fully and confidently in our increasingly diverse societies. Chapter 1 and Chapter 10 are free to download as open access publications under a CC BY NC ND licence. You can access them here: Chapter 1. The Crucial Role of Language in Education: https://zenodo.org/record/8282422 Chapter 10. Language in Education, and in Teacher Education: Towards New Paradigms: https://zenodo.org/record/8282728

Intended for teacher trainers, or teachers wishing to become teacher trainers. Practical activities for training sessions, case studies, discussion of training principles, resources for teacher trainers.

Focuses on the process of language analysis – a key skill for language teachers and teacher trainers of all levels of experience. Provides ways of analysing and understanding language systems through exercises and commentaries. Suggests motivating and practical activities which lead to meaningful learning as well as providing training in using reference material. Mapped to the Eaquals Teacher Training and Development Framework.