"Language-aware teaching requires a new way of thinking"

“If a student hasn’t had access to reading texts typical of the language use situations at school, a teacher will also have to think about a lot of other things besides teaching content,” explains Repo. “What types of texts are read and written in the subjects? How do you teach how to find information in texts from different fields? How to anticipate and conclude by interpreting titles, pictures, and diagrams? What is essential information? How to build a good answer or definition of a key concept?”

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