Gibson Ferguson

List of John Benjamins publications in which Gibson Ferguson is involved.

Title

Language in Language Teacher Education

Edited by Hugh Trappes-Lomax and Gibson Ferguson

This volume explores the defining element in the work of language teacher educators: language itself. The book is in two parts. The first part holds up to scrutiny concepts of language that underlie much practice in language teacher education yet too frequently remain under-examined. These include… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 4] 2002. vi, 258 pp.

Articles

Ferguson, Gibson 2003 Classroom code-switching in post-colonial contexts: Functions, attitudes and policies Africa and Applied Linguistics, Makoni, Sinfree and Ulrike H. Meinhof (eds.), pp. 38–51 | Article

Code-Switching in the classroom across a range of curricular subjects is a widespread phenomenon in multilingual, language contact settings in Africa and, indeed, world-wide; yet it is not infrequently regarded unfavourably by educational policy-makers. This paper reviews the literature on… read more

Ferguson, Gibson 2002 Language awareness in the preparation of teachers of English for specific purposes Language in Language Teacher Education, Trappes-Lomax, Hugh and Gibson Ferguson (eds.), pp. 131–148 | Article