Language teaching: defining the subject

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1. Concepts of language in language teacher education
5. Is language a verb? — conceptual change in linguistics and language teaching 29
6. The social component of language teacher education 49
7. Language teaching: defining the subject 67
8. Reflexive language in language teacher education 83
9. Training in instructional conversation 95
10. Part 2. Working with language in language teacher education
11. Doing language awareness 113
12. Language awareness in the preparation of teachers of English for specific purposes 131
13. Examining classroom discourse frames 149
14. What was that you said? 173
15. Developing language awareness and error detection 187
16. Maintaining language skills in pre-service training for foreign language teachers 199
17. The use of lesson transcripts for developing teachers’ classroom language 219
18. Towards a framework for language improvement within short in-service teacher development programmes 237
19. Bionotes 251
20. Index 255