Michèle de Courcy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4988489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michèle de Courcy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michèle |
| FAMILY NAME | de Courcy |
| SIGNATURE | DE COURCY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Teachers’ code-switching in bilingual classrooms
The pedagogical and sociocultural functions of teachers’ code-switching are an important factor in achieving the dual goals of content learning and language learning in bilingual programmes. This paper reports on an ethnographic case study investigating how and why teachers switched between languages in tertiary bilingual classrooms in Indonesia, where the main language of instruction was English. Data on code-switching were gathered in three cla…
Disrupting Preconceptions
Students enter pre-service teacher education programmes with certain preconceptions about what the world is like, what classrooms are like and how students acquire literacy. In our increasingly multicultural society, teachers in pre-service teacher education courses are often not representative of the wider population. The present paper reports on a study in which reflective writing by first-year students was used to illustrate the sorts of quest…
Policy Challenges for Bilingual and Immersion Education in Australia
This paper deals with the author's recent work on political, sociolinguistic and educational aspects of bilingual and immersion education in Australia. Among the cases considered are: the development of a professional position statement on bilingual and immersion education, to be disseminated to policy makers; advising on an Auslan (Australian language of the Deaf) bilingual programme; and a proposed investigation of why there are no Italian late…
Learners' Experience of Immersion Education
This text follows the progress of two groups of learners in late immersion programmes. It adds to the literature on such programmes by its emphasis on the processes of learning in such programmes. Another aim of the book is to extend knowledge of learning processes in character-based languages
Making sense of the Australian French immersion classroom
The study reported in this paper investigated the processes involved in the acquisition of French by students in late immersion programmes in Australia. An ethnographic style of data collection was used, covering a full school year. The roles of three main themes which emerged from the data are dealt with in this paper: comprehensible input, internalised speech and comprehensible output. It is concluded that comprehensible input alone is not suff…
Disrupting Preconceptions
Students enter pre-service teacher education programmes with certain preconceptions about what the world is like, what classrooms are like and how students acquire literacy. In our increasingly multicultural society, teachers in pre-service teacher education courses are often not representative of the wider population. The present paper reports on a study in which reflective writing by first-year students was used to illustrate the sorts of quest…
Learners' Experience of Immersion Education
This text follows the progress of two groups of learners in late immersion programmes. It adds to the literature on such programmes by its emphasis on the processes of learning in such programmes. Another aim of the book is to extend knowledge of learning processes in character-based languages
Making sense of the Australian French immersion classroom
The study reported in this paper investigated the processes involved in the acquisition of French by students in late immersion programmes in Australia. An ethnographic style of data collection was used, covering a full school year. The roles of three main themes which emerged from the data are dealt with in this paper: comprehensible input, internalised speech and comprehensible output. It is concluded that comprehensible input alone is not suff…
Learners' Experience of Immersion Education
This text follows the progress of two groups of learners in late immersion programmes. It adds to the literature on such programmes by its emphasis on the processes of learning in such programmes. Another aim of the book is to extend knowledge of learning processes in character-based languages
Policy Challenges for Bilingual and Immersion Education in Australia
This paper deals with the author's recent work on political, sociolinguistic and educational aspects of bilingual and immersion education in Australia. Among the cases considered are: the development of a professional position statement on bilingual and immersion education, to be disseminated to policy makers; advising on an Auslan (Australian language of the Deaf) bilingual programme; and a proposed investigation of why there are no Italian late…
Disrupting Preconceptions
Students enter pre-service teacher education programmes with certain preconceptions about what the world is like, what classrooms are like and how students acquire literacy. In our increasingly multicultural society, teachers in pre-service teacher education courses are often not representative of the wider population. The present paper reports on a study in which reflective writing by first-year students was used to illustrate the sorts of quest…
Teachers’ code-switching in bilingual classrooms
The pedagogical and sociocultural functions of teachers’ code-switching are an important factor in achieving the dual goals of content learning and language learning in bilingual programmes. This paper reports on an ethnographic case study investigating how and why teachers switched between languages in tertiary bilingual classrooms in Indonesia, where the main language of instruction was English. Data on code-switching were gathered in three cla…
Mathematics education (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Bilingual education (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)