Code Choice in the Language Classroom

By: Prof. Glenn S. Levine

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eBook | 6 March 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Code Choice in the Language Classroom argues that the foreign language classroom is and should be regarded as a multilingual community of practice rather than as a perpetually deficient imitator of an exclusive second-language environment. From a sociocultural and ecological perspective, Levine guides the reader through a theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical treatment of the important roles of the first language, and of code-switching practices, in the language classroom. Intended for SLA researchers, language teachers, language program directors, and graduate students of foreign languages and literatures, the book develops a framework for thinking about all aspects of code choice in the language classroom and offers concrete proposals for designing and carrying out instruction in a multilingual classroom community of practice.

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Glenn Levine's book deals with an issue that has only recently become topical, but which has been a fundamental tension in language education in practice for a very long time. He makes a cogent argument for language teaching and learning as a fundamentally bilingual endeavour in which all the languages available to the classroom can have an input role to play. For Levine, languages are not compartmentalised by rather they are thoroughly integrated in the work of teaching. This thoroughly evidenced study combines theory, data analysis and recommendations for practice. It is an important resource for both teachers and researchers.