Code Choice in the Language Classroom

Glenn S. Levine

Published by Multilingual Matters 2011

Code Choice in the Language Classroom

Glenn S. Levine

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847693341

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About this book

This book argues that the foreign language classroom should be regarded as a multilingual community of practice. From a sociocultural and ecological position, Levine guides the reader through a theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical treatment of the important roles of the first language, and of code-switching practices, in the language classroom.

Author / Editor information

Levine Glenn S. :

Glenn S. Levine is an Associate Professor of German and German language program director at the University of California, Irvine.

Reviews

Jose Aguilar Río:

Levine's book is clear, practical and thought-provoking...L2 teachers trying to come to terms with L2 teaching nowadays will certainly be encouraged, inspired and comforted by this book. Curriculum developers...will appreciate the conceptual and methodological framework presented by Levine. Scholars and students wishing to explore the main tenets of sociocultural approaches to L2 teaching will find this work to be a fine and thorough synthesis.

Anthony Liddicoat, University of South Australia, Australia:

Glenn Levine’s book deals with an issue that has only recently become topical, but which has been a fundamental tension in language education in practice for a very long time. He makes a cogent argument for language teaching and learning as a fundamentally bilingual endeavour in which all the languages available to the classroom can have an input role to play. For Levine, languages are not compartmentalised by rather they are thoroughly integrated in the work of teaching. This thoroughly evidenced study combines theory, data analysis and recommendations for practice. It is an important resource for both teachers and researchers.

Claire Kramsch, University of California at Berkeley, USA:

An extremely timely book on one of the most vexing issues in foreign language teaching: how much code-switching is acceptable or even desirable in the 21st century L2 classroom? Through a sound theoretical framework and concrete pedagogical examples, Glenn Levine develops an exciting, innovative multilingual approach to curriculum design, teaching, and articulation that engages the students in the co-construction of code choice conventions.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Part 1: Conceptual Framework
Chapter 1: Monolingual Norms and Multilingual Realities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter 2: The Conundrum of Babel: Toward a Theoretical Framework for a Multilingual Approach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 3: What is a Code? What is Code-Switching? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Part 2: Empirical Support
Chapter 4 The Code Choice Status Quo of the Language Classroom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Chapter 5 Classroom Code Choice: Toward Becoming Bilingual Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
Part 3: Curriculum
Chapter 6: An Architecture of Classroom Code Choice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Chapter 7: Getting from Marked to Unmarked and Back Again: Articulation of Multilingual Classroom Communities of Practice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
Epilogue: Blessings of Babel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182

Language: English
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Pages
- Main content: 208

eBook

Published: January 25, 2011
ISBN: 9781847693341