Teacher and University Educator Perspectives on Teaching Languages in Rural Settings: A Sonata Form Case Study

Title
Teacher and University Educator Perspectives on Teaching Languages in Rural Settings: A Sonata Form Case Study
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Evans, Jennifer
Morgan, Anne-Marie
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9486-5555
Email: amorga23@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:amorga23
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia (SPERA)
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:19284
Abstract
The experience of teaching languages in rural schools differs markedly from teaching languages in urban contexts, in relation to the size and nature of communities and their interactions, numbers of teachers of languages, in and out of school contact, and in the cultural and language backgrounds of students and their likelihood of opportunities to interact with users of the language being learned. The rewards, rather than the challenges of teaching languages in rural contexts are explored in this paper by a classroom languages teacher and a tertiary languages teacher educator and researcher, in a 'sonata form' (two-voiced, dialogic and reflexive) conversation, aimed at providing insights into the importance and significance of languages education for rural Australian students, and the pleasures for teachers of this crucial work when engaged in rural settings.
Link
Citation
Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 26(1), p. 67-82
ISSN
1036-0026
1839-7387
Start page
67
End page
82

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