Language Awareness in the Classroom

Language Awareness in the Classroom addresses the central educational question of the impact that explicit language knowledge has on learning and language learning.A substantial Introduction defines the issues and key concepts and relates them to contemporary educational policy and practice in Europe and internationally. The papers are organised into four thematic sections: the extent and nature of language awareness in teacher education; school-based language awareness programmes; tertiary education initiatives and modes of evaluation of language awareness programmes.

The ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgementsSection I: Introduction1. The scope of Language Awarness, Carl James and Peter GarrettSection II: Language Awareness in teacher training and education2. Language Awareness in teacher education, Christopher Brumfit3. Teacher's views of language knowledge, Rosamond Mitchell4. Linguistic diversity and Language Awareness: the views of primary school teachers, Guy Merchant5. Language Awareness in teacher education programmes for non-native speakers, Tony Wright6. Language Awareness and second language development, Howard NicholasSection III: Language Awareness in schools7. Language Awareness and the teaching of English language in the upper secondary school, Tony Tinkel8. Old problems and new solutions: LA work in GCSE foreign language classrooms, Gillian Donmall9. Authentic texts, pedagogical grammar and Language Awareness in foreign language learning, David Little and David Singleton10. The potential of Language Awareness as a focus for cross-curricular work in the secondary school, Jim Anderson11. Switching off: learners' perception of the appropriacy of input, Elizabeth Toncheva12. Learners' awareness of their learning, Nicholas ChryshochoosSection IV: Language Awareness at tertiary level13. Consciousness-raising about the writing process, Romy Clark and Roz Ivanic14. Language Awareness and EAP courses, Nicki Hedge and Hugh Gosden15. Talking about learning: establishing a framework for discussing and changing learning processes, John Holmes and Rosinda Ramos16. Language Awareness on area studies degrees, Lindsay Silvester17. Language Awareness and the computer, Phil ScholfieldSection V: Evaluation of Language Awareness18. Evaluating the effectiveness of an LA course, Brian Heap19. The effect of explicit instruction on the acquisiton of English grammatical structures by Chinese learners, Zhou Yan-Ping20. A Brazilian view of LA, Mike Scott21. Language learning and Linguistic Awareness: the relationship between proficiency and acceptability judgements in L2, Diana MasnySection VI: Conclusion22. Language Awareness: a way ahead, Peter Garrett and Carl JamesComposite bibliographyIndex