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M.R. Hawkins,Editors, ,Language Learning and Teacher Education: A Sociocultural Approach (2004) Multilingual Matters 1-85359-763-5. by Frank B. Brooks is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
This is a much needed volume the purpose of which is to explore what a sociocultural approach might look like when applied to teaching and teacher education in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics. The text is divided into five parts each of which presents research and/or discussion related to the overall purpose. In the Introduction, Hawkins lays out the rationale and theoretical framework, situating the text within the shifting practices in this field that have been emerging since the middle 1990s. These practices view language not as an isolated, individual phenomenon but rather as ". . . inherently embedded in and shaped by situated practice" (p. 3) and entail acquiring and transforming identities, thus the shift involves such things as coordinating how to structure classroom learning environments to develop practices of specific learning communities where learners engage in coming to new understandings and new practices. From a sociocultural perspective, then, teaching and learning are not about mimicking best practices or acquiring linguistic systems but about collaborating, creating learning communities, and forming new literacy practices in whic
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- Author
- Frank B. Brooks
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0898-5898)
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)