Sue Ollerhead

Gebundenes Buch

Teacher Pedagogical Language Knowledge and Multilingual Learners

Reflections from Australia

Beschreibung

This book expands the theory of pedagogical language knowledge to foreground multilingual approaches, especially pedagogical translanguaging. It illustrates the ways in which the author has worked with a diverse body of teachers to develop an expanded view of pedagogical language knowledge that foregrounds a range of multilingual teaching approaches. Primary amongst these is pedagogical translanguaging, whereby teachers systematically incorporated their multilingual learners' rich linguistic resources into classroom activities to scaffold either disciplinary content, language or both.

Offering a careful selection of empirical accounts of how teachers in diverse Australian classrooms are beginning to reorient their work through a multilingual lens, this book provides instructive examples of ways in which teachers' beliefs, understandings and knowledge of how to teach multilingual learners are probed, developed and enacted. It also explores the myriad way in which teachers can become active researchers of their own language assumptions and understandings and use their findings to develop strategies that support the language development of all learners.

Autor

Sue Ollerhead is a researcher and lecturer in Languages and Literacy Education and the Director of Secondary Education at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She grew up in multilingual South Africa, a country with eleven official languages, where she learned English, Afrikaans, isiZulu, isiXhosa and French at school and university. She began her teaching career at a Xhosa-medium primary school in an informal settlement, and then went on to teach Zulu-speaking factory workers in South Africa's adult migrant literacy program. She has also spent a large part of her working life teaching English and working in educational publishing in South Africa, Namibia, Egypt and the United Kingdom. A distinguishing feature of her teaching life in multicultural and multilingual contexts has been her sustained commitment to learning and sharing pedagogies that respond to learners' diverse cultural and linguistic identities. Throughout her academic career in teacher education, Sue has used her international experiences to train numerous undergraduate and postgraduate students to become knowledgeable, reflective and responsive teachers of culturally and linguistically diverse learners. Her recent publications in the area of pedagogical language knowledge, plurilingualism and translanguaging, complemented by her continued teaching and research into linguistically responsive teaching approaches, position her as an important emerging scholar in the field of language teacher education.

Produktdetails

• Educational Linguistics 68
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin; Springer Nature Switzerland; Spring
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 89130072
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783032083760
• ISBN-10: 3032083761
• Artikelnr.: 75387376