Language-Sensitive Teaching and Learning

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This textbook aims to raise teachers’ language awareness, to emphasise the importance of language and communication in enabling young people to reach their potential, and to develop their knowledge of how language and communication function in educational environments as well as outside. Laid out in a clear five-unit structure, and complemented by a range of classroom activities, reflective exercises, and case study examples from around the world, this book addresses the need for teachers to become more linguistically aware and sensitive in an accessible and reader-friendly way. It is an essential resource for pre-service and in-service teachers working with a range of age groups across the curriculum. 
Richard Rossner is a freelance consultant and writer. He is a co-founder of Eaquals, an international non-profit association that works to raise the quality of language education worldwide by providing practical guidance and support for teaching organisations and teachers. 
Rod Bolitho has worked in language education as teacher, teacher educator and manager for over 50 years in both the public and private sectors. He has an international reputation as author, trainer and consultant to ELT projects in Europe and beyond.
This textbook aims to raise teachers’ language awareness, to emphasise the importance of language and communication in enabling young people to reach their potential, and to develop their knowledge of how language and communication function in educational environments as well as outside. Laid out in a clear five-unit structure, and complemented by a range of classroom activities, reflective exercises, and case study examples from around the world, this book addresses the need for teachers to become more linguistically aware and sensitive in an accessible and reader-friendly way. It is an essential resource for pre-service and in-service teachers working with a range of age groups across the curriculum. 
Includes activities and tasks involving analysis of audio, video and written texts Links main issues with related theory and references to the work of relevant specialists Explores the impact of literacy and oracy on students' ability to participate actively in society

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“In this marvellously accessible and practical book, Rod Bolitho and Richard Rossner provide teachers with the tools they need for language-sensitive teaching. This is a book with a simple yet crucial message — every teacher is a language teacher. Bolitho and Rossner show what language-sensitive teaching involves and why all curricular subjects have a role to play in supporting literacy and oracy development. With its detailed examples of language use and numerous ideas for language-sensitive teaching, this is that rare type of education publication that is genuinely relevant for all teachers. Language-Sensitive Teaching also doubles up as a highly useful resource for teacher educators and trainers, who can find tasks here for a range of professional development purposes, as well as a core syllabus for language sensitive teaching that can be integrated into initial teacher training programmes.” (Dr Jason Skeet, Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE))

“As classroomsacross Europe become ever more linguistically and culturally heterogeneous, teachers of all subjects are faced with the task not only of transmitting subject knowledge but of helping students to cope with the linguistic and cognitive challenges that interaction with language brings. This valuable book takes its readers – (student) teachers of languages and other classroom subjects – on a journey through a variety of issues, both theoretical and practical, which guides them towards ‘language-sensitive’ approaches to teaching. It provides a plethora of example-based tasks relating to language use, both inside and outside the classroom, which encourage its readers to reflect on and find solutions to the challenge of making language and subject matter accessible to learners. 'It fills a gap in language-sensitive education and is a valuable resource for teachers and teacher educators of any subject.” (Dr David Newby, Graz University, Austria)

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