Full Description
Theoretical Linguistics in the Pre-University Classroom showcases the pedagogical potential of theoretical linguistics in remaking encounters with the workings of language in pre-university classrooms. Theoretical linguistics reorients the pursuit of linguistic understanding by moving beyond instrumental skills acquisition towards intellectual discovery. It offers an untapped medium for promoting STEM education (science through language) and can engage a wider student demographic in languages study (language through science).
Building on a groundswell of collaborative activity between schoolteachers and university linguists at national and international scales, this volume provides an up-to-date panorama of impact-focused research and grassroots practice emerging from the educational movement of Linguistics in Schools as it enters its 70th decade. Centred around three regional hives - North America, the UK, and Spain - the collection advances a pluralistic vision of theoretical linguistics as a means of expanding the possibilities of what it means to think about, or engage with, language and its workings in non-university settings.
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Part I: Contexts
1: Alice Corr and Anna Pineda: Theoretical linguistics in the non-university education
2: Nicole Holliday and Sabriya Fisher: Building equity in theoretical linguistics and the classroom
3: Marija Runić: It's high time: Linguistics and high schools in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina
4: Eli Anne Eiesland and Guro Nore Flǿgstad: The implementation of linguistics in Norwegian curricula and teacher education programmes
Part II: Linguistics in practice in UK and US schools
5: Richard Hudson: Linguistics in Schools: the English past, present, and future
6: Janette Swainston and Jonathan Kasstan: Augmenting the modern languages curriculum through Linguistics in a UK classroom
7: Mary Wenham: Linguistics for younger learners: discovering languages at the start of secondary school
8: Amy Plackowski: A Linguistic Approach to Vocabulary Instruction: Using Etymology and Morphology to Learn Vocabulary, Improve Writing, and Read the World
9: Beth R. Keyser: Investigating meter through a linguistic lens in English Language Arts
10: Iara Mantenuto: Oaxacan languages and linguistics in Mexican and US elementary and middle schools
Part III: Grammar in the classroom in Catalonia and Spain
11: Ignacio Bosque and Ángel J. Gallego: Addressing language in secondary education: Advantages of a scientific approach to grammar teaching
12: Carles Segura-Llopes, Andreu Sentí, Sandra Montserrat Buendia, and Sergi Barceló: Testing the pedagogical application of competing linguistic theories: The efficacy of cognitive construction grammar for L2 Catalan learners
13: Marina Cadadellà, Txuss Martín, and Rafael Marín: Scientia ex Machina: A cross-curricular classroom introduction to general linguistics
14: Alice Corr and Anna Pineda: Epilogue: Moving forward with linguistics in schools
Index
