Willans, Fiona (2023) Separating the Target Language from the Lesson Frame: Helping Teachers Make Informed Decisions About When They Should and Shouldn’t Make English Teaching Multilingual. In: Handbook of Multilingual TESOL in Practice. Springer Nature, Singapore, pp. 423-434. ISBN 978-981-19-9349-7
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Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) teacher training programs often attempt to situate the teaching of English within a framework of dynamic multilingualism, which promotes both the strong maintenance of the mother tongue and a flexible approach to the use of the full linguistic repertoire in the classroom. Student teachers find it easy to accept these arguments on a theoretical level, but report uncertainty about how to work with them in practice. By listening to them talk about classroom practice, we realize that many student teachers apply a crude all-or-nothing binary to their pedagogical decision-making around the use of languages other than English. There is limited nuance to their considerations about when, and for what purposes, to use languages other than the target language of English. This chapter therefore puts forward a framework to help teachers determine when the language of the classroom is serving as the target language, in which case English needs to be used to a sufficient extent to achieve the language learning goal; and when the language of the classroom is being used for a range of other purposes that may include explanation, brainstorming, task extension, reflection, strategy development, and classroom management, in which case there is every reason to draw on the resources of the full linguistic repertoire. Distinguishing between target language and lesson frame should help teachers make decisions that are grounded in principles of second language learning.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | School of Pacific Arts, Communication and Education (SPACE) |
| Depositing User: | Fiona Willans |
| Date Deposited: | 16 May 2023 03:59 |
| Last Modified: | 16 May 2023 03:59 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/13940 |
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