The good news about English learners
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.52242/gatesol.21Keywords:
English learners, multimodal, task based, Common CoreAbstract
This article describes how one teacher re-discovered the good news about English learners. It offers a counternarrative to the prevailing negative discourse surrounding these students and offers teachers ideas for engaging their students in tasks that bring out the good news.References
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Canale, M. (1983). From communicative competence to communicative language pedagogy. In J. C. Richards & R. W. Schmidt (Eds.), Language and communication. New York: Longman.
Canale, M., & Swain, M. (1980). Theoretical bases of communicative approaches to second language teaching and testing. Applied Linguistics, 1(1), 1-47.
Cummins, J. (2001). Negotiating identities: Education for empowerment in a diverse society (2nd ed.). Los Angeles, CA: California Association for Bilingual Education.
Cummins, J. (2006). Identity texts: The imaginative construction of self through multiliteracies pedagogy. In O. Garcia, T. Skuttnabb-Kangas & M. E. Torres-Guzman (Eds.), Imagining multilingual schools: Languges in education and glocalization (pp. 51-68). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Foundation, G. P. P. (2013). Background and analysis of the Common Core State Standards as they relate to Georgia. Retrieved from http://www.georgiapolicy.org/background-and-analysis-of-the-common-core-state-standards-as-they-relate-to-georgia/#ff_s=tCPzz
Gee, J. P. (2011). How to do discourse analysis: A toolkit Retrieved from http://site.ebrary.com/id/10422022
Hymes, D. H. (1972). On communicative competence. In J. B. Pride & J. Holmes (Eds.), Sociolinguistics. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books.
Jones, W. (2014). Georgia House committee kills Common Core bill. Athens Banner Herald Online. Retrieved from http://onlineathens.com/general-assembly/2014-03-12/georgia-house-committee-kills-common-core-bill
Kramsch, C. (2000). Social discursive constructions of self in L2 learning. In J. P. Lantolf (Ed.), Sociocultural theory and second language learning (pp. 133-153). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Kress, G., & van Leeuwen, T. (2006). Reading images: The grammar of visual design (2nd ed.). London: Routledge.
NCTE. (2008). Position statement - 21st century curriculum and assessment framework Retrieved June 15, 2010
NGACBP, & CCSSO. (2010). Common core state standards: English language arts & literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects Retrieved from www.corestandards.org
Norton, B. (2000). Identity and language learning: Gender, ethnicity and educational change. Harlow, England: Pearson Education.
P21. (2009). Framework for 21st Century learning Retrieved October 14, 2012, from http://www.p21.org/overview/skills-framework
PPRC. (2010). Pacific Policy Research Center - 21st Century skills for students and teachers. Honolulu: Kamehameha Schools, Research & Evaluation Division.
Shearer, L. (2014a). Georgia schools at breaking point after years of cuts. The August Chronicle. Retrieved from http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2014-01-20/georgia-schools-breaking-point-after-years-cuts
Shearer, L. (2014b). Good, bad in new Ga. teacher evaluations. Augusta Chronicle. Retrieved from http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2014-02-09/good-bad-new-ga-teacher-evaluations
Tinker Sachs, G. (2007). The challenges of adopting and adapting task-based cooperative teaching and learning in an EFL context. In K. Van den Branden, K. Van Gorp & M. Verhelst (Eds.), Tasks in action: Task-based language education from a classroom-based perspective. Newcastle, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Tinker Sachs, G. (2009). Taking risks in task-based teaching and learning. Asian Journal of English Language Teaching, 19(91-112).
Van den Branden, K. (Ed.). (2006). Task-based language education: From theory to practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Van den Branden, K., Bygate, M., & Norris, J. M. (Eds.). (2009). Task-based language teaching. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
van Lier, L. (2004). The ecology and semiotics of language learning: A sociocultural perspective. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Waylock, C. (2014). Common Core survives legislative attempts at revisions. North Fulton Revue. Retrieved from www.northfulton.com website: http://www.northfulton.com/Articles-COLUMNISTS-c-2014-03-19-203038.114126-sub-Common-Core-survives-legislative-attempts-at-revisions.html
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01/11/2015
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The good news about English learners. (2015). GATESOL Journal, 24(2). https://doi.org/10.52242/gatesol.21