Contexts for Learning: English Language Learners in a US Middle School

Autor/in	Haneda, Mari
Titel	Contexts for Learning: English Language Learners in a US Middle School
Quelle	In: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 11 (2008) 1, S.57-74 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1367-0050
DOI	10.2167/beb425.0
Schlagwörter	Ethnography; Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Middle Schools; Middle School Students; Context Effect; Educational Environment; Classroom Environment; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Role; Teaching Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnografie; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Middle schools; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Lehrerverhalten; Lehrerrolle; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	Within the sociocultural theoretical framework that this paper adopts, learning, including second-language learning, is conceptualised as increasing participation in a community of practice. Thus it becomes of central importance to examine the nature of the community itself and the kinds of participatory opportunities that it supports or discourages. For it is through their engagement in the specific practices of their communities that students appropriate the knowledgeable skills that these practices involve. In this paper, based on the findings of an exploratory ethnographic study conducted in a US middle school, I examine the learning opportunities created for adolescent English language learners in three different classrooms and the ways in which these students took up these opportunities. I argue that, in addition to the particular subject matter to be taught, what appears to shape the kinds of learning opportunities afforded to English language learners is: (a) teachers' conceptualisation of the needs of second-language students; (b) the ways in which they perceive their own role in responding to these needs; and (c) the larger context of institutional practices. (Author).
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