Publications

Publication details [#45902]

Courcy, Michèle de. 2007. Disrupting Preconceptions: Challenges to Pre-service Teachers' Beliefs About ESL Children. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 28 (3) : 188–203.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

instructing1 | L2-acquisition | language attitude | teacher

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article discusses how pre-service teachers' negative preconceptions may reinforce negative opinions about English as a second language learners, and how this can be avoided through well informed instruction.