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Teachers' Knowledge of the Role of Language in Content Pedagogy

Fri, April 22, 8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT), Division Virtual Rooms, Division K - Section 01: Teaching, Teacher Education and Professional Development in the Content Areas Virtual Paper Session Room

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This symposium presents five papers focusing on teachers' language-related knowledge base for content teaching. The papers emphasize the role of language in content teaching and teachers’ knowledge base of that role for more equitable education which addresses students’ diverse language and literacy needs. These papers, situated in the US and Singapore, focus on elementary and secondary science, social science and multiple subject teachers. Going beyond a ‘language awareness’ approach (Andrews & Lin, 2017), they unpack the language-related knowledge necessary to support students in learning of disciplinary language and literacies (Bunch, 2013). Together they present a knowledge framework for teachers and teacher professional learning comprised of teachers' knowledge of language, knowledge about language, knowledge of students and pedagogical knowledge (Authors, forthcoming).

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