Humor in the Classroom: A Guide for Language Teachers and Educational Researchers - Hardcover

Bell, Nancy; Pomerantz, Anne

 
9780415640534: Humor in the Classroom: A Guide for Language Teachers and Educational Researchers
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415640539 ISBN 13: 9780415640534
Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Humor in the Classroom provides practical, research-based answers to questions that educational researchers and language teachers might have about the social and cognitive benefits that humor and language play afford in classroom discourse and additional language learning. The book considers the ways in which humor, language play, and creativity can construct new possibilities for classroom identity, critique prevailing norms, and reconfigure particular relations of power. Humor in the Classroom encourages educational researchers and language teachers to take a fresh look at the workings of humor in today’s linguistically diverse classrooms and makes the argument for its role in building a stronger foundation for studies of classroom discourse, theories of additional language development, and approaches to language pedagogy.

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About the Author

Nancy D. Bell is an associate professor at Washington State University.

Anne Pomerantz is a senior lecturer in educational linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415640539
ISBN 13 
9780415640534
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
222

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