About Language as a medium for teaching and learning

Are you interested in English language education? This unit examines the use of language as a cultural tool which allows humans to become involved in a two-way process of constant change. The unit will help those within the teaching environment to relate theoretical discussion to professional practice. After studying this unit you should be able to: develop your understanding of the process of teaching and learning in classrooms, and the role of language in that process; appreciate how a sociocultural approach can be used to make critical, constructive analyses of classroom interaction in a variety of second language learning contexts; use this knowledge to reflect on second language learning processes in the classrooms you know.