Teaching Language in Context

by Beverly Derewianka and Pauline Jones

Language is at the heart of the learning process. We learn through language. Our knowledge about the world is constructed in language-the worlds of home and the community, the worlds of school subjects, the worlds of literature, the worlds of the workplace, and so on. It is through language
that we interact with others and build our identities. Teachers' explanations, classroom discussions, assessment of student achievement, and students' understanding,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190303689
• ISBN13: 9780190303686
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.0" x 9.7"