Bridging Discourses in the ESL Classroom: Students, Teachers and Researchers

by Pauline Gibbons

Bridging Discourses in the ESL Classroom is concerned with the nature of talk in multilingual classrooms. Examining the interactions between students learning in and through English as a second language and their teachers, this book identifies the patterns of discourse which support and enable both second language development and the learning of curriculum knowledge. These patterns are 'bridging discourses', combining the everyday language...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350063274
• ISBN13: 9781350063273
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"