Social Justice in EAP and ELT Contexts

Social Justice in EAP and ELT Contexts
Author: Paul Breen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2024-02-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1350351229

This book articulates an understanding of what is meant by the term social justice from a global perspective, drawing upon examples of practice from across a range of English for academic purposes (EAP) and English language teaching (ELT) higher education contexts. Presently, within western higher educational systems, there is a drive for greater integration of approaches that lend themselves to social justice. However, questions still remain about what that means in practice. This book seeks to answer that not by telling but by showing. It presents a series of chapters that act as vignettes into a diverse set of classrooms, contexts and countries, offering examples of how and where an epistemology of social justice has been put into practice in teaching and learning situations. Such situations range from cross-continental higher educational partnerships between east and west to instances of EAP practitioners' work with refugees from North Africa and the Middle East. These examples are threaded together by the common goal of understanding what it is that defines an enactment of social justice and what the shared denominators are across these contexts. Through looking at these various examples, the authors produce a set of codes and themes that are common to practice across contexts and discuss how these might help inform practice in other areas of language education, higher education and educational development work in general.

Social Justice in EAP and ELT Contexts

Social Justice in EAP and ELT Contexts
Author: Paul Breen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2024-02-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1350351210

This book articulates an understanding of what is meant by the term social justice from a global perspective, drawing upon examples of practice from across a range of English for academic purposes (EAP) and English language teaching (ELT) higher education contexts. Presently, within western higher educational systems, there is a drive for greater integration of approaches that lend themselves to social justice. However, questions still remain about what that means in practice. This book seeks to answer that not by telling but by showing. It presents a series of chapters that act as vignettes into a diverse set of classrooms, contexts and countries, offering examples of how and where an epistemology of social justice has been put into practice in teaching and learning situations. Such situations range from cross-continental higher educational partnerships between east and west to instances of EAP practitioners' work with refugees from North Africa and the Middle East. These examples are threaded together by the common goal of understanding what it is that defines an enactment of social justice and what the shared denominators are across these contexts. Through looking at these various examples, the authors produce a set of codes and themes that are common to practice across contexts and discuss how these might help inform practice in other areas of language education, higher education and educational development work in general.

Critical Academic Writing and Multilingual Students

Critical Academic Writing and Multilingual Students
Author: A. Suresh Canagarajah
Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2002-10-14
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Critical Academic Writing and Multilingual Students is a guide for writing teachers who wish to embark on a journey toward increased critical awareness of the role they play, or potentially could play, in the lives of their students."--Jacket.

TESOL and Sustainability

TESOL and Sustainability
Author: Jason Goulah
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2020-05-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1350115096

In the burgeoning field of ecolinguistics, little attention has been given to the ways in which English language teaching is and has become implicated in global ecological crises. This book begins a dialogue about the opportunities and responsibilities presented to the TESOL field to re-orient professional practice in ways that drive cultural change and engender alternate language practices and metaphors. Covering a diverse range of topics, including anthropogenic climate change, habitat loss, food insecurity and mass migration, chapters argue that such crises require not only technological innovation, but also cultural changes in how human beings relate to each other and their environment. Arguing that it is incumbent upon the field of English language teaching to reckon with such cultural changes in how and what we teach, TESOL and Sustainability addresses the ways in which discourses such as eco-pedagogy, the critique of neo-liberalism, non-Western philosophy and post-humanist thought can and must inform how and what is taught in ESL and EFL classrooms.

Children's Literature and Learner Empowerment

Children's Literature and Learner Empowerment
Author: Janice Bland
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2013-07-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 144115339X

Children's literature can be a powerful way to encourage and empower EFL students but is less commonly used in the classroom than adult literature. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to children's and young adult literature in EFL teaching. It demonstrates the complexity of children's literature and how it can encourage an active community of second language readers: with multilayered picturebooks, fairy tales, graphic novels and radical young adult fiction. It examines the opportunities of children's literature in EFL teacher education, including: the intertexuality of children's literature as a gate-opener for canonised adult literature; the rich patterning of children's literature supporting Creative Writing; the potential of interactive drama projects. Close readings of texts at the centre of contemporary literary scholarship, yet largely unknown in the EFL world, provide an invaluable guide for teacher educators and student teachers, including works by David Almond, Anthony Browne, Philip Pullman and J.K.Rowling. Introducing a range of genres and their significance for EFL teaching, this study makes an important new approach accessible for EFL teachers, student teachers and teacher educators.

Global Englishes for Language Teaching

Global Englishes for Language Teaching
Author: Heath Rose
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2019-01-24
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1107162734

Provides a ground-breaking attempt to unite discussions on the pedagogical implications of the global spread of English, and lobby for change.

Changing Pedagogy

Changing Pedagogy
Author: Xin-min Zheng
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2008-04-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0826488765

Universally, governments (national and local) decide the education system isn't good enough and needs modernising.This book examines why and proposes a coherent, explanatory framework

Essential Speaking Skills

Essential Speaking Skills
Author: Joanna Baker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2003-05-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1441142959

Practical and easy to use, Essential Speaking Skills is the definitive guide to teaching speaking to students of English as a second or additional language. Brimming with invaluable advice on teaching approaches and practical classroom ideas and learning activities, the handbook is specifically designed for teachers who teach large classes with very few resources. The clear explanations and the activities are suited to both new and experienced teachers of English, and can be used in junior and senior secondary school classrooms and for adult learners.

The Charlton Men

The Charlton Men
Author: Paul Breen
Publisher: Thames River Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 178308166X

‘The Charlton Men’, the first part of a trilogy set in South London, combines literary fiction with a love of football. Set in the historic surrounds of Greenwich and Charlton, the novel interweaves the rich heritage of the area’s past with contemporary themes of social disenfranchisement and a search for meaning. Set in the aftermath of the 2011 London riots, the story follows two “Charlton Men” as their lives become intertwined with the fortunes of their local football club. Lance, a Londoner, has followed Charlton his whole life – from childhood right up until his return from Afghanistan, scarred by war and feeling abandoned after the sacrifices he has made for his country. Fergus, an Irishman, comes to London to get a fresh start on life and finds himself falling in love not once, but twice – first with the club and the riots, and second with a mysterious Marilyn Monroe lookalike whose darker side ripples beneath the surface. Conflict arises, however, when his friend Lance falls for the same woman and the two men find themselves pitted against one another as competitors for her affection.