Creating Classroom Communities of Learning

Roger Barnard is a senior lecturer in applied linguistics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He has spent many years working with language teachers of young learners in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.Professor María E. Torres-Guzmán is a professor in bilingual/multicultural education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY. She has primarily focused on teacher development and cultural aspects of the education of language minority populations in the United States, Spain and elsewhere.

Creating Classroom Communities of Learning presents an innovative and enlightening account of interaction in nine communities of learning. In many ways it is a groundbreaking volume, full of rich transcripts of classroom interaction, with both ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ interpretations. It not only highlights the powerful influence of cultural practices outside the classroom on what goes on inside the classroom, but it also unpacks the issue of the interpretive process.

• ContributorsTranscript ConventionsForeword - Viv EdwardsIntroduction - Roger Barnard, María E. Torres-Guzmán and John F. Fanselow1. Under the Interactional Umbrella: Presentation and Collaboration in Japanese Classroom Discourse - Take 1 - Fred E. Anderson; Take 2 - Sylvia Wolfe2. Teaching Content, Learning Language: Socialising ESL Students into Classroom Practices in Australia - Take 1 - Rhonda Oliver; Take 2 - James McLellan3. Socialisation and ‘Safetalk’ in Upper Primary English Language Classroom in Brunei Darussalem - Take 1 - James McLellan and Pearl Chua-Wong Swee-Hui; Take 2 - María E. Torres-Guzmán4. Negotiating Appropriateness in the Second Language in a Dual Language Education Classroom Setting in New York - Take 1 - María E. Torres-Guzmán; Take 2 - Vijay Kumar and Wong Bee Eng 5. Interaction in a Taiwanese Primary School English Classroom - Take 1 - Ching-Yi Tien and Roger Barnard; Take 2 - Fred E. Anderson6. Learning through Dialogue in a Primary School Classroom in England - Take 1 - Sylvia Wolfe; Take 2 - Ching-Yi Tien and María E. Torres-Guzmán7. Constructing Meaning in a Bilingual Learning Environment: Two Primary Classrooms in Malaysia - Take 1 - Wong Bee Eng and Vijay Kumar; Take 2 - Roger Barnard8. Creating a Community of Learning in a New Zealand Primary School Classroom - Take 1 - Roger Barnard; Take 2 – James McLellan9. Language Socialization in a Canadian Secondary School Course: Talking About Current Events - Take 1 - Patricia A. Duff; Take 2 - Rhonda OliverAfterword - John F. FanselowIndex