Language for Teaching Purposes Bilingual Classroom Discourse and the Non-Native Speaker Language Teacher /

• Main Author: Riordan, Emma (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Applied linguistics.; Bilingualism.; Language and languages-Study and teaching.; Language and education.; Discourse analysis.; Language policy.; Applied Linguistics.; Language Teaching.; Language Education.; Discourse Analysis.; Language Policy and Planning.
• Physical Description: XV, 227 p. 30 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319710051
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71005-1

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.