Publications

Publication details [#58572]

Zhang, Jie and Carole Pelttari. 2014. Exploring the emotions and needs of English language learners: facilitating pre-service and in-service teachers' recognition of the tasks facing language learners. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 35 (2) : 179–194.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This study uses instructional methods, which reflect experiences met by real English language learning children (ELLs) in real US classrooms, in order to subject pre-service and/or in-service teachers to the varied emotions encountered by ELLs in their class, -by deferring them to a Dutch lecture-, and to enable them to examine ELLs emotions and needs more carefully, whilst diffusing the message that learning obtstacles are superable.