The Role of Language in Content Pedagogy A Framework for Teachers’ Knowledge

This book explores the importance of language in content learning. It focuses on teachers’ roles, knowledge and understandings of language in school contexts (including academic language and disciplinary languages) to support students. It examines teachers' language-related knowledge base for c...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Seah, Lay Hoon (Editor), Silver, Rita Elaine (Editor), Baildon, Mark Charles (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Studies in Singapore Education: Research, Innovation & Practice
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introductory chapter by editors: Mapping the Language-related Knowledge Base for Content Teaching
  • Studies in Science and TLA
  • Unpacking the language-related knowledge components of science teachers through the language awareness lens
  • Raising Science Teachers’ Language Awareness: Teachers’ Voices from the Implementation of A Functional Literacy Approach to the Teaching of Lower Secondary Science in Singapore
  • High School Science Teachers Learning to Teach Science Reading Through a Functional Focus on Language: Toward a Grounded Theory of Teacher Learning
  • Building Science Teacher Disciplinary Linguistic Knowledge with SFL
  • From image-to-writing: A teacher's PCK in supporting primary school students in making sense of the specialised language of science
  • Teachers’ language-based knowledge to support students’ science learning
  • Studies in Social Science and TLA
  • Beyond the word hunt: Teaching the ways we construe causation in history education
  • The Languageof Historical Thinking Read-Alouds
  • The underground railroad doesn’t run underground: Tackling metaphors in the social studies classroom
  • Thinking and Talking like a Geographer: Teachers’ use of dialogic talk for engaging students with multimodal data in the geography classroom
  • Commentary: What Do We Mean by Language? And Other Key Questions Related to Building a Language-Related Knowledge Base for Teachers