Appropriate Methodology and Social Context

Appropriate Methodology and Social Context
Author: Adrian Holliday
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1994-09-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780521437455

An ethnographic framework to describe the varying cultures of classrooms, teacher communities and student groups in different countries and educational contexts.

Language and Development

Language and Development
Author: Professor Christopher N. Candlin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317890116

Language and Development - Teachers in a Changing World comprises twenty-one case accounts contributed by language education professionals working in the context of international development. Frank and stimulating, the contributions explore the implementation of interactive educational approaches in ten Asian countries. The accounts draw on real-life experiences from countries which collectively have been under-represented in the literature to date: Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam. The issues discussed will be familiar to those working in similar situations throughout the world, as many questions are raised and answered in the lively depictions of classroom practice, project management and funding relationships. The editors' introductory and concluding sections provide a descriptive conceptual framework for the practice-based accounts, while allowing the reader the freedom to interpret the meanings and the theoretical implications of each account for themselves.

Children's Development Within Social Context

Children's Development Within Social Context
Author: Lucien T. Winegar
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134762585

These companion volumes bring together research and theoretical work that addresses the relations between social context and the development of children. They allow for the in-depth discussion of a number of vital metatheoretical, theoretical, and methodological issues that have emerged as a result of increased investigation in these areas. For example: Which methodological and statistical procedures are appropriate and applicable to studies of social context and processes of development? Should the nature of social context be reconceptualized as something more than different levels of some social independent variable? Are theories of development that do not consider social context incomplete? Will the increasingly finer definitions of social context lead to extreme situationism and contextualism? As developmental theory and investigation continues to address relationships between social and cognitive development, it becomes increasingly important that issues concerning social context be elaborated and discussed.

The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching

The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching
Author: Graham Hall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 717
Release: 2016-05-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317384466

The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teaching is the definitive reference volume for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students of Applied Linguistics, ELT/TESOL, and Language Teacher Education, and for ELT professionals engaged in in-service teacher development and/or undertaking academic study. Progressing from ‘broader’ contextual issues to a ‘narrower’ focus on classrooms and classroom discourse, the volume’s inter-related themes focus on: ELT in the world: contexts and goals planning and organising ELT: curriculum, resources and settings methods and methodology: perspectives and practices second language learning and learners teaching language: knowledge, skills and pedagogy understanding the language classroom. The Handbook’s 39 chapters are written by leading figures in ELT from around the world. Mindful of the diverse pedagogical, institutional and social contexts for ELT, they convincingly present the key issues, areas of debate and dispute, and likely future developments in ELT from an applied linguistics perspective. Throughout the volume, readers are encouraged to develop their own thinking and practice in contextually appropriate ways, assisted by discussion questions and suggestions for further reading that accompany every chapter. Advisory board: Guy Cook, Diane Larsen-Freeman, Amy Tsui, and Steve Walsh

Bringing Forth a World

Bringing Forth a World
Author: Joff P.N. Bradley
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2019-12-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004421785

Bringing Forth a World: Engaged Pedagogy in the Japanese University provides theoretical and practical solutions—informed by semiotic, feminist, multimodal and multilateral pedagogies—to the perceived crises in tertiary foreign language education in the Japanese university.

The Dynamic Interplay between Context and the Language Learner

The Dynamic Interplay between Context and the Language Learner
Author: Jim King
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137457139

This edited volume offers a series of state-of-the-art conceptual papers and empirical research studies which consider how contextual factors at multiple levels dynamically interact with individuals to influence how they go about the complex business of learning and using a second language.

Web Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Web Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Author: Tatnall, Arthur
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 2699
Release: 2009-10-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1605669830

With the technological advancement of mobile devices, social networking, and electronic services, Web technologies continues to play an ever-growing part of the global way of life, incorporated into cultural, economical, and organizational levels. Web Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (4 Volume) provides a comprehensive depiction of current and future trends in support of the evolution of Web information systems, Web applications, and the Internet. Through coverage of the latest models, concepts, and architectures, this multiple-volume reference supplies audiences with an authoritative source of information and direction for the further development of the Internet and Web-based phenomena.

Language Ideologies in the Chinese Context

Language Ideologies in the Chinese Context
Author: Ying Wang
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2020-06-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501503707

This book explores language ideologies in China, which encounters the unprecedented global spread of English as a lingua franca, against the backdrop of globalisation where China emerges as a rapidly developing economy with vigorous promotion of Chinese around the world. The book addresses Chinese speakers' ideologies in relation to ELF and provides insights into non-native English speakers' engagement in the development of English in the future.