Dialogic Approaches to TESOL: Where the Ginkgo Tree Grows / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9780805839012 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 09/26/2005 Edition description: New Edition Pages: 248 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d) This book locates dialogic pedagogy within the history of TESOL approaches and methods in which the communicative approach has been the dominant paradigm. Dialogic inquiry in the form of story telling, oral histories, and knowledge from the ground up and from the margins has much to offer the field. In dialogic approaches, the teacher and students learn in community and the students' home languages and cultures, their families and communities, are seen as resources.Dialogic Approaches to TESOL: Where the Ginkgo Tree Grows explores teacher research, feminist contributions to voice, social identity and dialogic pedagogy, and the role of teachers, students, families, and communities as advocates and change agents. After a brief history of TESOL methods and an introduction to dialogic pedagogy, four features of dial