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When Students Have Time to Talk: Creating Contexts for Learning Language - Softcover

Dudley-Marling, Curt; Searle, Dennis

 
9780435085889: When Students Have Time to Talk: Creating Contexts for Learning Language

Synopsis

This text links the principle of language learning with classroom practice. The discussion focuses on the teacher as a decision-maker who determines student needs and creates authentic situations for extending students' language uses.

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About the Author

DENNIS SEARLE is a former high school English teacher. He has taught at the University of Alberta and is currently associate dean in the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto. Recognized for his work on the role of talk in learning, he is currently focusing on spelling development, based on his interest in writing and in language and literacy development.CURT DUDLEY-MARLING is a professor in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College and coeditor of the journal Language Arts. His previous Heinemann books include When Students Have Time to Talk (with Dennis Searle, 1991), Who Owns Learning? (with Dennis Searle, 1995), Readers and Writers with a Difference, Second Edition (with Lynn Rhodes, 1996), and Living with Uncertainty (1997), winner of the 1999 James N. Britton Research Award for inquiry in the English language arts.

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