Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Editor and Book Reviews Editor: John Edwards (St Francis Xavier University, Canada)
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Volume: 21 Number: 6 Page: 451–470
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The Role of the Language Specialist in Disciplinary Teaching: In Search of a Subject?
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Angela Creese
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The data for this paper come from multilingual and multicultural mainstream English secondary school classrooms in which two kinds of teachers, language specialists and subject specialists, work together
with students on various educational processes. The foci in this paper are the roles, relationships and talk of the two kinds of teachers in this secondary school context. An analysis is undertaken of how
the teachers are differently constructed through their discursive pedagogic classroom practices. At the core of this investigation is an interest in how teachers' talk combines with a variety of pedagogic
practices, themselves already invested with social structure, to create learning opportunities. The performance of these roles, relationships and discursive practices impact not only on the teachers' status
within the school but also on how 'languages' (first and other) and diversity are viewed in the learning and teaching processes.
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