Language-Sensitive Teaching and Learning

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"In this marvellously accessible and practical book, Rod Bolitho and Richard Rossner provide teachers with the tools they need for language-sensitive teaching. This is a book with a simple yet crucial message - every teacher is a language teacher. Bolitho and Rossner show what language-sensitive teaching involves and why all curricular subjects have a role to play in supporting literacy and oracy development. With its detailed examples of language use and numerous ideas for language-sensitive teaching, this is that rare type of education publication that is genuinely relevant for all teachers. Language-Sensitive Teaching also doubles up as a highly useful resource for teacher educators and trainers, who can find tasks here for a range of professional development purposes, as well as a core syllabus for language sensitive teaching that can be integrated into initial teacher training programmes." (Dr Jason Skeet, Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE))

"As classroomsacross Europe become ever more linguistically and culturally heterogeneous, teachers of all subjects are faced with the task not only of transmitting subject knowledge but of helping students to cope with the linguistic and cognitive challenges that interaction with language brings. This valuable book takes its readers - (student) teachers of languages and other classroom subjects - on a journey through a variety of issues, both theoretical and practical, which guides them towards 'language-sensitive' approaches to teaching. It provides a plethora of example-based tasks relating to language use, both inside and outside the classroom, which encourage its readers to reflect on and find solutions to the challenge of making language and subject matter accessible to learners. 'It fills a gap in language-sensitive education and is a valuable resource for teachers and teacher educators of any subject." (Dr David Newby, Graz University, Austria)