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Remedial or radical? Second language support for curriculum learning

Remedial or radical? Second language support for curriculum learning
Remedial or radical? Second language support for curriculum learning
The presence of second language learners is becoming the norm across school systems as a result of globalisation. The chapter considers whether in making provision for second language learners in mainstream schools the emphasis should be on setting up remedial programmes for them, or alternatively, a more radical programme which entails a reappraisal of mainstream concepts of 'good practice' and of the accepted role of the class or subject teacher. Drawing on a range of international examples, it considers the theory and practice of second language learning over the past two decades and makes recommendations for teacher training. It outlines the ways in which second language learners can be given access to the school curriculum and to the academic language through which it is constructed, and argues for the need to develop new forms of bilingual support for learning which are open to students' own everyday forms of bilingual language use.
language education, second language learning, bilingual learners, pedagogy
0749436131
2003
21-34
Kogan Page
Bourne, Jill
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Bourne, Jill
Reid, Euan
Bourne, Jill
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Bourne, Jill
Reid, Euan

Bourne, Jill (2003) Remedial or radical? Second language support for curriculum learning. In, Bourne, Jill and Reid, Euan (eds.) Language Education. (World Yearbook of Education, 2003) London, UK. Kogan Page, pp. 21-34.

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The presence of second language learners is becoming the norm across school systems as a result of globalisation. The chapter considers whether in making provision for second language learners in mainstream schools the emphasis should be on setting up remedial programmes for them, or alternatively, a more radical programme which entails a reappraisal of mainstream concepts of 'good practice' and of the accepted role of the class or subject teacher. Drawing on a range of international examples, it considers the theory and practice of second language learning over the past two decades and makes recommendations for teacher training. It outlines the ways in which second language learners can be given access to the school curriculum and to the academic language through which it is constructed, and argues for the need to develop new forms of bilingual support for learning which are open to students' own everyday forms of bilingual language use.

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Published date: 2003
Keywords: language education, second language learning, bilingual learners, pedagogy

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Local EPrints ID: 11244
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/11244
ISBN: 0749436131
PURE UUID: 893baffc-3b4f-47c4-badf-5035e28861c6

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Date deposited: 05 Nov 2004
Last modified: 19 Mar 2024 17:46

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Author: Jill Bourne
Editor: Jill Bourne
Editor: Euan Reid

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