Language learning and teacher education : a sociocultural approach

Section 1: Introduction. Section 2: Sociocultural Perspectives on Language and Learning 1. Learning Language as a Matter of Learning Social Languages Within Discourses, James Paul Gee. Section 3. Sociocultural Approaches to Language Teacher Education 2. Re-Sourcing Resources: Pedagogy, History, and Loss in a Johannesburg Classroom, Pippa Stein 3. Transforming the Discourse of Teaching and Learning: Rippling Waters and Shifting Sands, Jerri Willett & Sarah Miller 4. Social Apprenticeships through Mediated Learning in Language Teacher Education, Margaret R. Hawkins. Section 4. The Uptake of Sociocultural Perspectives in Language Education 5. Social Languages and Schooling: The Uptake of Sociocultural Perspectives in School, Jennifer Miller 6. Tinker, Tailor, Teacher, Text: Using a Multiliteracies Approach to Remediate Reading, Alison Beynon. Section 5. Implications of Sociocultural Perspectives for Language Teacher Education 7. Language, Socio-cultural Theory, and Second Language Teacher Education: Examining the Technology of Subject Matter and the Architecture of Instruction, Donald Freeman.