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About the Online Companion Materials About the Author Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: A Functional Language Awareness Approach to Teaching Mathematics Objectives What we mean by language and literacy Solving for area: A language function with many features Introducing functional language and language awareness Summary Chapter 2: Into the Classroom: Contexts and Activities Objectives Defining contexts for learning Embracing diverse classroom experiences Learning through activity Summary Chapter 3: Lesson Planning with Language Functions and Language Objectives in Mind Objectives Lesson planning with functional language awareness Understanding language demands and language objectives Summary Chapter 4: Introducing New Material: Defining and Describing Objectives What do we mean by 'defining' in the mathematics classroom? Focusing explicitly on vocabulary Tools for word study in the classroom Summary Chapter 5: Making Sense of Problems: Inferring, Predicting and Outlining Objectives What we mean by problem-solving in the mathematics classroom Focusing explicitly on grammar Tools for problem solving in the classroom Summary Chapter 6: Building Expertise in Explaining and Reasoning Objectives What we mean by explaining in the mathematics classroom Focusing explicitly on grammar and frames for explaining Promoting explaining in the classroom Summary Chapter 7: Reviewing and Communicating Results Objectives What we mean by reviewing and communicating results The art of reviewing in the mathematics classroom Communicating results: Precision in language Summary Chapter 8: Reflecting on Practice in Functional Language Awareness Classrooms Objectives Using functional language awareness to design and reflect on the big issues Reflection in unit and lesson planning Summary Glossary References
Wayne E. Wright is the Associate Dean for Research, Graduate Programs, and Faculty Development and the Barbara I. Cook Chair of Literacy and Language in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction in the College of Education at Purdue University. He provides training for future and current educators in the areas of ESL teaching methods, literacy, assessment, technology and research. Wright has extensive experience as a researcher and practitioner in schools in the United States and internationally. Wright is the author of numerous research articles related to language minority education, and serves as the founding editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement. He has presented his research and provided training for language teachers throughout the world. In 2009 Wright was a Fulbright scholar and visiting lecturer at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where he provided training and assistance to the university and students in the M.Ed. program. He and his wife Phal are the parents of three amazing children.