Teaching Language as Action in the ELA Classroom - Softcover

Beach, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367026481 ISBN 13: 9780367026486

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Beach is Professor Emeritus of English Education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA.

Faythe Beauchemin is Assistant Professor of Childhood Education, University of Arkansas, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367026481
• ISBN 13: 9780367026486
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216