Learning to Learn in a Second Language - Softcover

Gibbons, Pauline

 
9780435087852: Learning to Learn in a Second Language

Synopsis

Children from language backgrounds other than English represent a quarter of our school population. This work has been written specifically for all teachers of children for whom English is a second language, although it should be equally helpful to teachers of English-speaking children.

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About the Author

Pauline Gibbons taught postgraduate and undergraduate TESOL courses at the University of Technology, Sydney, for many years, and is now an Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is also an independent EL consultant and her work with teachers has taken her to Hong Kong, Sweden, Laos, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, China, South Africa, Marshall Islands, Iran, Germany, UK, and USA. She has published extensively in EL education, including Bridging Discourses in the ESL Classroom: students, teachers and researchers (Continuum, 2006), and two other Heinemann books: Learning to Learn in a Second Language (1993) and English Learners, Academic Literacy and Thinking: Learning in the Challenge Zone (2009).

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