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Language for Teaching Purposes

Bilingual Classroom Discourse and the Non-Native Speaker Language Teacher

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Authors:
  1. Emma Riordan

    1. German Department School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

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  • Offers comprehensive insight into language teacher language use
  • Maintains a practical focus whilst being based in rigorous Applied Linguistics empirical research
  • Proposes course content based on the idea of target task analysis

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Emma Riordan
    Pages 1-13

  3. Language for Specific Purposes: Theory and Research

    • Emma Riordan
    Pages 15-50

  4. Classroom Discourse: Defining the Genre

    • Emma Riordan
    Pages 51-79

  5. The Medium and the Object: Foreign Language Classroom Discourse

    • Emma Riordan
    Pages 81-112

  6. The Non-Native Speaker Language Teacher

    • Emma Riordan
    Pages 113-145

  7. The Non-Native Speaker Language Teacher as Model Bilingual

    • Emma Riordan
    Pages 147-173

  8. Target Task Analysis

    • Emma Riordan
    Pages 175-201

  9. Discussion

    • Emma Riordan
    Pages 203-218

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 219-227
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About this book

This book’s innovative approach proposes Language for Teaching Purposes as a distinct field of enquiry and practice within Language for Specific Purposes. It uses robust theoretical and empirical evidence to demonstrate the specificity of language used by teachers teaching language, and the complex decisions teachers make around language choice and use in language classrooms. These complexities are shown to affect Non-native Speaker Language Teachers in particular so that their language needs must be met in teacher training programmes. Set in the Anglophone foreign language teaching world, this book will appeal to anyone involved in teacher training, language teaching or the investigation of classroom discourse.





Reviews

“Riordan has drawn on her dual identity as an applied linguistic researcher, and as a non-native speaking teacher of German to produce this ground-breaking book. It explores a multiplicity of issues surrounding language teachers’ own linguistic needs and will be extremely valuable to modern foreign language teachers, teacher educators, and researchers alike.” (Heath Rose, University of Oxford, UK)

“Emma Riordan’s examination of bilingual classroom discourse uniquely targets non-native speaker teachers of German (and not English, as is usually the case). Her arguments are written with ease and clarity, and built on a solid empirical base, including document analysis, interviews, questionnaires and classroom observations. Language for Teaching Purposes is a most original contribution to the field – a pleasure to read not only for researchers, but classroom teachers too!” (Péter Medgyes, Emeritus Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)



Authors and Affiliations

  • German Department School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    Emma Riordan

About the author

Emma Riordan is Lecturer in German and Applied Linguistics at University College Cork, Ireland. She has been a native speaking teacher of English and non-native speaking teacher of German for 15 years. Her research interests include language teaching and learning, discourse analysis, language policy and language teacher training.





Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Language for Teaching Purposes

  • Book Subtitle: Bilingual Classroom Discourse and the Non-Native Speaker Language Teacher

  • Authors: Emma Riordan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71005-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71004-4Published: 23 March 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10005-6Published: 15 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71005-1Published: 15 March 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 227

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Language Teaching, Language Education, Discourse Analysis, Language Policy and Planning

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