Synopses & Reviews
Teacher Language Awareness (TLA) is an area of increasing interest to those involved in language teacher education. This book provides an introduction to the nature of TLA, assesses its impact upon teaching and its potential impact on learning. The book focuses specifically on grammar. It aims to encourage teachers and others involved in language education to think more deeply about the importance of TLA ad to adopt a more principled approach to the planning of those parts of their programmes assosciated with it.
Synopsis
The possession of an adequate level of teacher language awareness (TLA) is an essential attribute of any competent L2 teacher. The author sets out to explore the nature of TLA with particular reference to grammar, and to examine the relationship between teachers' language awareness and their handling of language-related issues in their teaching. The purpose of the book is to encourage those involved in language education to think more deeply about TLA: its importance, its nature, and its impact upon teaching (and, potentially, upon learning). The book aims to make teachers more aware of the significance of their handling of language, and to help teacher educators to adopt a more principled approach to the planning of those parts of their programmes associated with TLA.
Synopsis
This book concentrates on teachers' knowledge and understanding of language systems in the belief that these systems are at the heart of the language acquisition process.
Table of Contents
1. Language awareness. 'knowledge about language' and TLA 2. TLA and the teaching of language 3. TLA and the grammar debate 4. TLA and teachers' subject-matter cognition 5. TLA and pedagogical practice 6.The TLA of expert and novice teachers 7. TLA and the native-speaker and non-native speaker debate 8. TLA and student learning 9. TLA and teacher learning, Epilogue: TLA and teacher professionalism