Dialogic Approaches to Tesol: Where the Ginkgo Tree Grows

by Shelley Wong

Book Overview

This book locates dialogic pedagogy within the history of TESOL approaches and methods in which the communicative approach has been the dominant paradigm. Dialogic inquiry in the form of story telling, oral histories, and knowledge from the ground up and from the margins has much to offer the field. In dialogic approaches, the teacher and students learn in community and the students' home languages and cultures, their families and communities,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805839011
• ISBN13: 9780805839012
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"