Teachers as Curriculum Designers for Transcultural Communicative Competence - (Bloomsbury Guidebooks for Language Teachers) by Jennifer Eddy

About the Book

A guide for educators for designing and aligning bespoke MFL, heritage and community language curriculum and assessment tasks within a prescribed curriculum.

Book Synopsis

What do language instructors consider when faced with new curriculum guidelines? How can teacher leaders encourage learner autonomy and creativity through relevant, purposeful and novel pupil deliverables? How does this experience change how teachers view their profession? This book guides educators on design of MFL, heritage and community language curriculum and assessment tasks, providing a blueprint for any revision initiative even within a prescribed national context.

This framework, implemented with Curriculum for Wales, engages teachers in design for spiral progression of intercultural themes within MFL, heritage and community language curricula. It provides a model for other national curriculum initiatives to encourage uptake via creative task design for both teacher and learner autonomy. With language uptake a concern globally, this book is applicable to any MFL or heritage language setting.

This book includes 'voices from the field' where teachers explain their process and how their teacher autonomy provided a model for their pupils and increased their confidence with languages. Including 20 exemplars in English, with cultural content and instructional strategies for French, Spanish, German, and Welsh, this book looks at universal, intercultural themes to facilitate application to all languages and cultures.

Review Quotes

"A pertinent practical guide that empowers teachers as designers and anyone who would like to try! Clear and easy to read examples that can transform learning in the classroom and where students and teachers can become creative with an impact beyond the classroom environment." --Fotini Diamantidaki, University College London, UK

About the Author

Jennifer Eddy is Associate Professor and program director of World Language Education at Queens College, City University of New York, USA.

Jennifer is also the author of Designing World Language Curriculum for Intercultural Communicative Competence (2022).