Language Awareness in the Classroom

The Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Section I: Introduction 1. The scope of Language Awarness, Carl James and Peter Garrett Section II: Language Awareness in teacher training and education 2. Language Awareness in teacher education, Christopher Brumfit 3. Teacher's views of language knowledge, Rosamond Mitchell 4. Linguistic diversity and Language Awareness: the views of primary school teachers, Guy Merchant 5. Language Awareness in teacher education programmes for non-native speakers, Tony Wright 6. Language Awareness and second language development, Howard Nicholas Section III: Language Awareness in schools 7. Language Awareness and the teaching of English language in the upper secondary school, Tony Tinkel 8. Old problems and new solutions: LA work in GCSE foreign language classrooms, Gillian Donmall 9. Authentic texts, pedagogical grammar and Language Awareness in foreign language learning, David Little and David Singleton 10. The potential of Language Awareness as a focus for cross-curricular work in the secondary school, Jim Anderson 11. Switching off: learners' perception of the appropriacy of input, Elizabeth Toncheva 12. Learners' awareness of their learning, Nicholas Chryshochoos Section IV: Language Awareness at tertiary level 13. Consciousness-raising about the writing process, Romy Clark and Roz Ivanic 14. Language Awareness and EAP courses, Nicki Hedge and Hugh Gosden 15. Talking about learning: establishing a framework for discussing and changing learning processes, John Holmes and Rosinda Ramos 16. Language Awareness on area studies degrees, Lindsay Silvester 17. Language Awareness and the computer, Phil Scholfield Section V: Evaluation of Language Awareness 18. Evaluating the effectiveness of an LA course, Brian Heap 19. The effect of explicit instruction on the acquisiton of English grammatical structures by Chinese learners, Zhou Yan-Ping 20. A Brazilian view of LA, Mike Scott 21. Language learning and Linguistic Awareness: the relationship between proficiency and acceptability judgements in L2, Diana Masny Section VI: Conclusion 22. Language Awareness: a way ahead, Peter Garrett and Carl James Composite bibliography Index