Teacher language awareness and scaffolded interaction in CLIL science classrooms

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-232
Author(s):  
Daozhi Xu ◽  
Gary James Harfitt

Abstract Teacher language awareness (TLA) constitutes the teacher’s self-reflective knowledge about the operation of language systems in pedagogical practices. This study focuses on teachers’ understanding of learning of language and learning through language in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) contexts, exploring how teachers proceduralise their knowledge of language to facilitate science learning in Hong Kong. By analysing the reflective relationship between TLA and scaffolding strategies of two teachers (students n = 31; 32) during a set of lessons in a secondary school, this paper suggests that it is critical to re-orient the TLA focus from teachers to the act of learning and learners’ needs. This expanded conceptual framework of TLA sheds light on how to transform teachers’ implicit knowledge of language into explicit awareness of scaffolding in class. The TLA-filtered, scaffolded interactions can therefore promote the use of language not merely for pedagogical purposes but also as a cognitive learning tool.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Lindahl ◽  
Kathryn I. Henderson

Abstract Important components of the teacher knowledge base are how aware a teacher is of language (including how it is acquired and best taught), as well as their language ideologies. Because a combination of ideologies and awareness may guide many pedagogical decisions, this mixed-methods sequential explanatory study explored prevalent language ideological orientations of educators in a dual language immersion (DLI) context, their degrees of Teacher Language Awareness (TLA), and the relationship between the two. Findings revealed that participants with high degrees of TLA oriented significantly more positively towards additive language ideologies, while educators with low degrees of TLA were significantly more likely to orient toward deficit ideologies. Data from cases representing high and low degrees of TLA provide an in-depth view of the relationship between teachers’ TLA and ideologies in practice. This study extends an understanding of how language awareness and ideologies interact, along with implications for pre- and in-service teacher professional development.


2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 422-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy Pomphrey ◽  
Suzanne Burley

Author(s):  
Рафаэль Филиберто Фортеса Фернандес ◽  
Елена Валерьевна Рубцова ◽  
Саймелин Айлээн Фортеса Рохас

Основываясь на постструктуралистских определениях дискурса, данное исследование посвящено критике редукционистской сущности канонических определений понятия языковой осведомленности учителя (Teacher Language Awareness – TLA), осознаваемых как формула для регургитации западных дискурсивных практик в преподавании английского языка. Опираясь на принципы мультимодальности и понятие идеологического концептуального квадрата, в статье проводится тематическое исследование, демонстрирующее способы визуализации евро-американской имперской истории в энтекстуализации в неязыковом материале учебников английского языка, где авторы в процессе реэнтекстуализации избегают акцентировать внимание на негативном образе, отрицая не только прошлые колониальные злодеяния, но и их постколониальное повторение, такое как, например, фашизм в Испании. Эта маскировка, или санация, является частью незапятнанного образа Западного проекта, который проецируется в том числе через обучение английскому языку как важный элемент процесса глобализации и его связи с неолиберальными имперскими установками. И этот факт открыто бросает вызов обоснованности концепта языковой осведомленности учителя (TLA) как конструкта. В работе также вводится концепт «edulcoration» (education (образование) + dulce (in Spanish - сладость) + decoration (декорация)), понимаемый как средство синтаксического и лексического манипулирования языком, реализованное также в образах и аудиозаписях, которые делают пригодным для образовательных целей неязыковой материал. С практической точки зрения каждый из примеров, приведенных в исследовании, выражает контрдискурс, необходимый для практик противодействия неоколонизации ума. В работе предлагается переосмысление способов формирования и развития компетенций учителя в эпоху глобализации, а также возможность исследования аналогичных вопросов в других европейских языковых учебниках. Based on post-structural definitions of discourse(s), the article is aimed at criticizing the reductionist essence of canonical definitions of Teacher Language Awareness (TLA)], perceived as a formula for the regurgitation of western discourse practices in the English Language Teaching classroom. Based on a multimodal perspective and an ideological conceptual square, the research reports a case study illustrating how Euro-American imperial history is visualized in its entextualization in the non-language material of an English language textbook. The results of the case study reveal that in the process of re-entextualization the authors have de-emphasized the negative image of the Self by negating not only the Euro-American colonial atrocities but also their post-colonial repetition such as fascism in Spain. This concealment or content sanitation is part of the untarnished image the West projects through ELT as part of its role in the process of globalization and its connection to the neo-liberal empire, a fact that openly challenges the validity of TLA as a construct. The work also introduces the concept ‘content edulcoration’ (education + dulce (in Spanish) + decoration) understood as the means of syntactic and lexical language manipulation as well as its realization in the voice of transcript readers and images, all of which make non-language material suitable for educational purposes. From a practical viewpoint, each of the instances in the case study offers the counter-discourse necessary for resistance to the neo-colonization of the mind. The article suggests a reconceptualization of teacher formation and development in the era of globalization as well as the feasibility of researching similar issues in other major European language teaching textbooks.


Author(s):  
Stephen Andrews ◽  
Agneta M-L Svalberg

ELT Journal ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Andrews

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