Teaching Language as Action in the ELA Classroom

Richard Beach is Professor Emeritus of English Education at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA.Faythe Beauchemin is Assistant Professor of Childhood Education, University of Arkansas, USA.

"This book makes a new and unique contribution to scholarship on the teaching of English language arts. It will be an essential book in my ‘Language and Learning’ course for pre-service and in-service ELA teachers."--Amanda Haertling Thein, The University of Iowa, USA"Teaching Language as Action in the ELA Classroom fosters growth of both students and teachers through a languaging as action approach and philosophy. The strategies and descriptions of many classroom activities provided throughout the text are practical and easily transferable to the classroom context. At the heart of every chapter is how we should value every individual’s experience and voice—teachers and students alike."-- Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 64(4), Jan/Feb 2021

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Language as Action in the ELA ClassroomChapter 2: Languaging Actions to Enact Social Relations in Social WorldsChapter 3: Enacting Emotions and Embodied Actions as LanguagingChapter 4: Relational Framing of Classroom Spaces and TimeChapter 5: Relational Framing of Classroom Talk-in-InteractionChapter 6: Relational Responding to Literary Texts Chapter 7: Relational Writing for Audiences Chapter 8: Use of Relational Drama for Enacting Languaging ActionsChapter 9: Relational Framing of Online InteractionsChapter 10: Fostering Growth in Languaging Actions and through Professional Development