A Transdisciplinary Approach to International Teaching Assistants: Perspectives from Applied Linguistics

Sonst. Personen	Looney, Stephen Daniel (Hrsg.); Bhalla, Shereen (Hrsg.)
Titel	A Transdisciplinary Approach to International Teaching Assistants: Perspectives from Applied Linguistics
Quelle	(2019), (200 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-7889-2554-9
Schlagwörter	Intonation; Interdisciplinary Approach; Pronunciation; Teaching Assistants; Foreign Students; Language Proficiency; Undergraduate Students; Multilingualism; Teaching Methods; Theory Practice Relationship; Physics; Science Laboratories; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Language Variation; Communities of Practice; Evaluators; Oral Language; Immigration; Public Policy; Teaching Experience; Communication Problems; Auditory Perception; Teacher Student Relationship; Applied Linguistics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Aussprache; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Physik; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachenvielfalt; Community; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Öffentliche Ordnung; Kommunikationsbarriere; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Linguistics; Linguistik; Angewandte Linguistik
Abstract	North American universities depend on international teaching assistants (ITAs) as a substantial part of the teaching labor force, which has led to the idea of an 'ITA problem', a deficiency model which is framed as a divergence between ITAs' linguistic competence and undergraduates' and their parents' expectations. This outdated positioning of ITAs as deficient diminishes the invaluable role they play within the academy. This book argues instead for an approach to ITA which recognizes them as multilingual, skilled, migrant professionals who participate in and are discursively constructed through various participant frameworks, modalities and activities. The chapters in this volume offer state-of-the-art research into ITA using a variety of methods and approaches, and as such constitute a transdisciplinary perspective which argues for the importance of dialogue between research and practice. This book contains the following chapters: (1) Introduction -- A Transdisciplinary Approach to ITA (Stephen Daniel Looney and Shereen Bhalla); (2) The Role of Intonation in the Production and Perception of ITA Discourse (Lucy Pickering); (3) Co-Operative Action -- Addressing Misunderstanding and Displaying Uncertainty in a University Physics Lab (Stephen Daniel Looney); (4) Instructional Authority and Instructional Discourse (Shiao-Yun Chiang); (5) Enhancing Communication between ITAs and US Undergraduate Students (Okim Kang and Meghan Moran); (6) Examining Rater Bias in Scoring World Englishes Speakers Using a Transdisciplinary Approach: Implications for Assessing International Teaching Assistants (Jing Wei); (7) A Community of Practice Approach to Understanding the ITA Experience (Shereen Bhalla); (8) Situating ITAs in Higher Education and Immigration Policy Studies (Linda Harklau and James Coda); (9) Using Course Logic to Describe Outcomes and Instruction for an ITA Course (Greta Gorsuch); and (10) Five Imperatives for ITA Programs and Practitioners (Stephen Daniel Looney). (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01