Authenticity In English Language Teaching

Author : Leo Will
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783830985587

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Authenticity in English Language Teaching by Leo Will Pdf

Authenticity is one of the most rampant buzzwords in ELT (English Language Teaching). Many have weighed in on what authenticity should mean and on how it may be achieved. The book at hand is an extensive analysis of authenticity as a term and as a concept within the academic field of ELT. The research data comprises virtually all definitions and conceptualizations of authenticity in the international ELT literature. However, only a limited number of texts contributes to what can be called an explicit negotiation of authenticity. A discourse analytical approach is taken to disentangle the hubbub of commentaries and to eventually extrapolate from it six distinct concepts which are attached to the term 'authenticity'. Michel Foucault's seminal theories are invoked, affording additional insights into discourse dynamics and power structures among individuals and institutions in ELT.

Author : Richard S. Pinner
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783095698

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Reconceptualising Authenticity for English as a Global Language by Richard S. Pinner Pdf

This book examines the concept of authentic English in today’s world, where cultures are in constant interaction and the English language works as a binding agent for many cross-cultural exchanges. It offers a comprehensive review of decades of debate around authenticity in language teaching and learning and attempts to synthesise the complexities by presenting them as a continuum. This continuum builds on the work of eminent scholars and combines them within a flexible framework that celebrates the process of interaction whilst acknowledging the complexity and individual subjectivity of authenticity. Authenticity is approached as a complex dynamic construct that can only be understood by examining it from social, individual and contextual dimensions, in relation to actual people. Authenticity is a problem not just for language acquisition but one which affects us as individuals belonging to society.

Author : Alan Maley,Brian Tomlinson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781527504271

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Authenticity in Materials Development for Language Learning by Alan Maley,Brian Tomlinson Pdf

This volume makes a unique contribution to the literature on materials development for language learning. It focuses on issues related to authenticity in materials development and includes research-based position statements, applications of theory to practice and developments of theory from observed practice. Each paper concentrates on a different aspect of authenticity and many of them introduce the reader to previously unexplored facets of authenticity. The chapters are sequenced so that the book moves from general discussion about the value of authenticity to reports of evaluations of authenticity to reports of the exploitation of authenticity in specific learning contexts. Many questions are raised, much revealing data is reported and analysed, and many pedagogic suggestions are made. The contributions here have been written so that they are of potential value to teachers, to materials developers, to post-graduate students and to researchers. They are written to be academically rigorous, but at the same time to be accessible to newcomers to the field and to experienced experts alike.

Author : Sarah Rilling,Maria Dantas-Whitney,Lilia Savova
Publisher : Classroom Practice
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1931185603

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Authenticity in the Language Classroom and Beyond by Sarah Rilling,Maria Dantas-Whitney,Lilia Savova Pdf

Adult language learners have specific learning goals that reflect their lives within a global society, and adults negotiate multiple and changing identities throughout their personal, academic, and professional lives. Chapters in Authenticity in the Language Classroom and Beyond: Adult Learners highlight how teachers have the ability to transform language instruction from a mechanical learning experience to a dynamic interaction to assist learners in reaching real-world goals. Rather than focus only on native-speaker norms of language production, English language instruction can provide adult learners with opportunities to create and act on their own texts, engage meaningfully with audiences, and develop interactions that mirror their purpose for learning. The chapters in this volume demonstrate how language teaching practices engage learners' inauthentic experiences, using and producing texts to meet international and localized communication needs. All the chapters in this volume demonstrate that authenticity is more than just the materials we use. Authenticity also means using language for real purposes. It means engaging students in collaborative learning, involving discussions, negotiations, and decision making. Authenticity is creating real uses for English, not just modeling native-speaker language and culture. With English increasingly being used as a lingua franca to connect second language speakers, authenticity takes on new meanings as we seek to develop learners who can face the challenge of communicating effectively in an increasingly globalized world.

Author : Steve Walsh,Steve Mann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317335207

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The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education by Steve Walsh,Steve Mann Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education provides an accessible, authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date resource of English language teacher education. With an overview of historical issues, theoretical frameworks and current debates, this handbook provides unique insights into a range of teacher education contexts, focusing on key issues relating to teacher and learner priorities, language and communication, current practices, reflective practice, and research. Key features include: a cross-section of current theories, practices and issues, providing readers with a resource which can be used in a variety of contexts; the use of data, transcripts and tasks to highlight and illustrate a range of practices, including examples of ‘best practice’; ‘snapshots’ of ELTE from a number of contexts taken from all around the world; and examples of current technological advances, contemporary thinking on reflective practice, and insights gained from recent research. This wide-ranging and international collection of chapters has been written by leading experts in the field. The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education is sure to be core reading for students, researchers and educators in applied linguistics, TESOL and language education.

Author : Richard Pinner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351184274

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Authenticity and Teacher-Student Motivational Synergy by Richard Pinner Pdf

Despite the common association between authenticity and motivation in language learning, there does not currently exist a single volume exploring these connections. This book looks at the relationship between authenticity and motivation by specifically viewing the process of mutually validating the act of learning as social authentication, which in turn can often lead to positive motivational synergy between students and teacher(s). The study at the centre of this book uses autoethnography and practitioner research to examine the complex relationship between authenticity and motivation in the foreign language learning classroom. In particular, it traces the links between student and teacher motivation, and proposes that authenticity can act as a bridge to connect learners to the classroom environment and engage with the activity of learning.

Author : Freda Mishan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 7521340043

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Designing Authenticity Into Language Learning Materials by Freda Mishan Pdf

Author : Eve C. Zyzik,Charlene Polio
Publisher : University of Michigan Press ELT
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 0472036467

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Authentic Materials Myths by Eve C. Zyzik,Charlene Polio Pdf

Introduction -- Myth 1: authentic texts are inaccessible to beginners -- Myth 2: authentic texts cannot be used to teach grammar -- Myth 3: shorter texts are more beneficial for language learners -- Myth 4: activating background knowledge or making a word list is sufficient to prepare students for authentic texts -- Myth 5: authentic texts can be used to teach only listening and reading -- Myth 6: modifying or simplifying texts always helps language learners -- Myth 7: for learners to benefit from using authentic texts, the associated tasks must also be authentic -- Epilogue -- Appendices A-G: myth activities.

Author : Henry Widdowson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0194374459

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Defining Issues in English Language Teaching by Henry Widdowson Pdf

This text goes back to basics by investigating fundamental assumptions about the way English should be defined and taught as a foreign language. It looks at different attitudes to English teaching, and critically examines proposals for course content.

Author : Rémi A. van Compernolle,Janice McGregor
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783095322

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Authenticity, Language and Interaction in Second Language Contexts by Rémi A. van Compernolle,Janice McGregor Pdf

This collection addresses issues of authenticity in second language contexts from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches along three principal themes: What is authentic language? Who is an authentic speaker? How is authenticity achieved? The volume responds to these questions by bringing together scholars working in a range of contexts, including with language learners in the classroom and in residence or study abroad, with a variety of second or additional languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish. Contributions focus on authenticity as it relates to patterns of language and meaning, and to agency, identity and culture, and serve as an opening to an extended conversation about the nature of authenticity and its development in L2 contexts. This volume is relevant for students and scholars interested in learning about or investigating questions of authenticity and interaction in a wide range of language learning contexts.

Author : Nat Bartels
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402029547

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Applied Linguistics and Language Teacher Education by Nat Bartels Pdf

Applied Linguistics and Language Teacher Education is aimed at applied linguists who are interested in understanding more about the learning of novice teachers in their classes. The 21 studies in this volume provide information on the complexity of novice teachers learning and use of knowledge in a variety of applied linguistics classes such as SLA, Syntax, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Phonetics and Phonology, L2 Reading and Writing, Testing, and Content Based Instruction. These studies were conducted in a variety of contexts, from North and South America to Europe, Asia and Australia, and look at the preparation of teachers of English, Spanish and Chinese. The book also includes a state-of-the-art summary of research on knowledge acquisition and use which provides applied linguists with a solid basis for developing their ideas about their students learning and use of the knowledge presented in their classes.

Author : Penny Ur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1984-02-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521287814

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Teaching Listening Comprehension by Penny Ur Pdf

Teaching Listening Comprehension provides a range of activities illustrating techniques appropriate for both adults and children.

Author : Susan HOUSE
Publisher : Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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«Authentic materials in the classroom» by Susan HOUSE Pdf

In Didactic Approaches for Teachers of English in an Internacional Context, the editors have selected articles that provide an overview of the current methodology of integrated language and culture instruction, with the understanding that the English language is completely embedded within a broader cultural framework. The papers further define this topic into creative inter-cultural approaches to teaching, including: content-based instruction in English through CLIL, holistic language-learning for children, the parallel development of linguistic and cultural competence, and a study of language structures and discourse.

Author : Katharina Eder
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783640926688

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Authenticity in Language Assessment by Katharina Eder Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: Authenticity is regarded as an important feature of language tests, but commonly the notion is related only to the use of authentic material. In the course of this class, however, we found out that the concept of authenticity is actually far more comprehensive. It does indeed include characteristics of the input of test tasks, but it is also concerned with the interaction between input and expected response, the setting and the format of a test. Hence, we decided to work mainly on the topic of authenticity in this final report of our course on language assessment.

Author : Leo Will,Wolfgang Stadler,Irma Eloff
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800411067

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Authenticity across Languages and Cultures by Leo Will,Wolfgang Stadler,Irma Eloff Pdf

This volume centres around concepts of personal and cultural authenticity as they play out in various contexts of foreign language teaching and learning worldwide. The chapters cover a wide range of contexts and disciplines, including both theoretical and empirical work; together they comprise both a rigorous analysis of authenticity in language teaching and a step away from notions of native-speakerism and cultural essentialism with which it is often associated. Written by a group of scholars working across several continents, the chapters offer diverse perspectives regarding the role language plays in processes of personal growth, learning, development, self-actualisation and power dynamics. The book addresses the theoretical and philosophical nature of authenticity while remaining grounded in the teaching and learning of languages, with authenticity viewed as a practical concern that guides our actions and beliefs. The book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students of authenticity as well as foreign language teachers interested in the theoretical underpinnings of their practice.