Teachers English Language And Teaching

Author : Jane Willis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230522961

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Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching by Jane Willis Pdf

Winner - British Council Innovation in English Language Teaching Award 2006 This book was written for language teachers by language teachers, with a view to encouraging readers to use more tasks in their lessons, and to explore for themselves various aspects of task-based teaching and learning. It gives insights into ways in which tasks can be designed, adapted and implemented in a range of teaching contexts and illustrates ways in which tasks and task-based learning can be investigated as a research activity. Practising language teachers and student professionals on MA TESOL/Applied Linguistics courses will find this a rich resource of varied experience in the classroom and a stimulus to their own qualitative studies.

Author : Thomas S. C. Farrell,George Jacobs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441159724

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Essentials for Successful English Language Teaching by Thomas S. C. Farrell,George Jacobs Pdf

Essentials For Successful English Language Teaching is about how we teach English Language Learners (ELLs) and how our ELLs learn. Farrell and Jacobs encourage those involved in teaching English to develop, maintain and rediscover the reasons that led them to take up the profession. They focus on the essentials in teaching the English language that teachers can implement in their instruction so that their students can excel in their learning: Encourage learner autonomy Emphasize the social nature of learning Develop curricular integration, focus on meaning Celebrate diversity Expand thinking skills Utilize alternative assessment, and Promote English language teachers as co-learners along with their students. These essentials are best implemented as a whole, rather than one at a time and so they are interwoven with each other to encourage a holistic teaching approach. Highly accessible, each chapter comes with case studies and a range of activities to encourage the reader to put each of the essentials into practice. With these the authors aim to bring an inner smile to all English language teachers that reassures them they made the right choice when they chose to become teachers of the English language. This reflective and engaging book will be invaluable to postgraduate students of TESOL and applied linguistics, and in-service language teachers.

Author : Minh Hue Nguyen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9811397635

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English Language Teacher Education by Minh Hue Nguyen Pdf

This book examines a range of complex issues concerning the professional experience (i.e., practicum) in English language teacher education with regard to curriculum design and implementation, as well as professional learning. Drawing on a sociocultural perspective, it explores the context of the professional experience, preservice teachers as learners of English language teaching, and the activity of learning to teach English language in connection with interrelated contextual and personal issues: contextual issues such as policies, curricula, university-school partnerships, and mentoring relations are investigated in relation to personal issues such as the beliefs, expectations, prior educational experiences, previous teaching experiences, and cultural-linguistic backgrounds of preservice teachers. In turn, the book addresses professional learning issues, including professional identity development, emotional experiences, and pedagogical learning, in depth. The book delves into the qualitative “fine-grained” aspects of the professional experience while also making valuable conceptual contributions through a sociocultural analysis of the professional learning experience, which can also be applied to research in other teacher education contexts. The findings presented here hold practical implications for English language teacher education in terms of developing a knowledge base for English language teaching and an effective model of professional experience to prepare English language teachers for working in today’s expanded, diverse and dynamic neoliberal contexts.

Author : Peter Sayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415897730

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Ambiguities and Tensions in English Language Teaching by Peter Sayer Pdf

The central theme of this book is the ambiguities and tensions teachers face as they attempt to position themselves in ways that legitimize them as language teachers, and as English speakers. Focusing on three EFL teachers and their schools in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, it documents how ordinary practices of language educators are shaped by their social context, and examines the roles, identities, and ideologies that teachers create in order to navigate and negotiate their specific context. It is unique in bringing together several current theoretical and methodological developments in TESOL and applied linguistics: the performance of language ideologies and identities, critical TESOL pedagogy and research, and ethnographic methods in research on language learning and teaching. Balancing and blending descriptive reporting of the teachers and their contexts with a theoretical discussion which connects their local concerns and practices to broader issues in TESOL in international contexts, it allows readers to appreciate the subtle complexities that give rise to the "tensions and ambiguities" in EFL teachers' professional lives.

Author : Van Canh Le,Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen,Thi Thuy Minh Nguyen,Roger Barnard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429854538

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Building Teacher Capacity in English Language Teaching in Vietnam by Van Canh Le,Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen,Thi Thuy Minh Nguyen,Roger Barnard Pdf

This timely volume opens a window on issues related to English language education in Vietnam. The authors consider that teacher quality is the key factor to be considered if the national English language curriculum outcomes are to be achievable. Aiming to shed light on key issues recently observed in the Vietnamese landscape of English language education, it examines the complexity of the institutionalization of the standardized English proficiency policy, which has been in force since 2008. That policy uses the Common European Framework of References for Languages (CEFR) as the model to set the standards and levels of proficiency for teachers, learners and state employees. The book presents both the theoretical and practical aspects of the standardization movement in English language education. The contents comprise a series of extended research-based chapters written by experts of language-in-education policy and planning in and about Vietnam from a range of perspectives including teachers, English language curriculum developers, teacher educators and researchers. The rich coverage of the book includes current discussion on English language education in Vietnam ranging from policy to practice, making it highly relevant to English teachers, teacher educators, and scholars, in Vietnam and worldwide, who aspire to broaden their horizons and professionalism.

Author : Denise E. Murray,MaryAnn Christison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136933561

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What English Language Teachers Need to Know Volume I by Denise E. Murray,MaryAnn Christison Pdf

Designed for pre-service teachers and teachers new to the field of ELT, What English Teachers Need to Know I and II are companion textbooks organized around the key question: What do teachers need to know and be able to do in order for their students to learn English? The focus throughout is on outcomes, that is, student learning. Volume I, on understanding learning, provides the background information that teachers need to know and be able to use in their classroom: the characteristics of the context in which they work how English works and how it is learned their role in the larger professional sphere of English language education Volume II, on facilitating learning, covers the three main facets of teaching: planning instructing assessing The texts work for teachers across different contexts (countries where English is the dominant language, one of the official languages, or taught as a foreign language); different levels (elementary/primary, secondary, college or university, or adult education), and different learning purposes (general English, workplace English, English for academic purposes, or English for specific purposes).

Author : Lillian L. C. Wong,Ken Hyland
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351794558

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Faces of English Education by Lillian L. C. Wong,Ken Hyland Pdf

Faces of English Education provides an accessible, wide-ranging introduction to current perspectives on English language education, covering new areas of interest and recent studies in the field. In seventeen specially commissioned chapters written by international experts and practitioners, this book: offers an authoritative discussion of theoretical issues and debates surrounding key topics such as identity, motivation, teacher education and classroom pedagogy; discusses teaching from the perspective of the student as well as the teacher, and features sections on both in- and out-of-class learning; showcases the latest teaching research and methods, including MOOCs, use of corpora, and blended learning, and addresses the interface between theory and practice; analyses the different ways and contexts in which English is taught, learned and used around the world. Faces of English Education is essential reading for pre- and in-service teachers, researchers in TESOL and applied linguistics, and teacher educators, as well as upper undergraduate and postgraduate students studying related topics.

Author : George Braine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135603496

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Teaching English to the World by George Braine Pdf

A collection of English language teaching (ELT) histories, curricula, and personal narratives from non-native speaker (NNS) English teachers worldwide. Each chapter describes first the history of English language teaching in a country, then the current ELT curriculum, followed by the biography of an English teacher of that country.

Author : Bedrettin Yazan,Nathanael Rudolph
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319729206

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Criticality, Teacher Identity, and (In)equity in English Language Teaching by Bedrettin Yazan,Nathanael Rudolph Pdf

This edited volume, envisioned through a postmodern and poststructural lens, represents an effort to destabilize the normalized “assumption” in the discursive field of English language teaching (ELT) (Pennycook, 2007), critically-oriented and otherwise, that identity, experience, privilege-marginalization, (in)equity, and interaction, can and should be apprehended and attended to via categories embedded within binaries (e.g., NS/NNS; NEST/NNEST). The volume provides space for authors and readers alike to explore fluidly critical-practical approaches to identity, experience, (in)equity, and interaction envisioned through and beyond binaries, and to examine the implications such approaches hold for attending to the contextual complexity of identity and interaction, in and beyond the classroom. The volume additionally serves to prompt criticality in ELT towards reflexivity, conceptual clarity and congruence, and dialogue.

Author : Amy Bik May Tsui
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781108479714

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English Language Teaching and Teacher Education in East Asia by Amy Bik May Tsui Pdf

This book uncovers the challenges posed by globalization to Asian jurisdictions in English language teaching and teacher education.

Author : Kuchah Kuchah,Fauzia Shamim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137531049

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International Perspectives on Teaching English in Difficult Circumstances by Kuchah Kuchah,Fauzia Shamim Pdf

This book offers a holistic practitioner and research-based perspective on English Language Teaching and teacher education in difficult circumstances. In addition to extending the current conceptualization of ‘difficult circumstances’ in ELT to include the broader policy issues that may affect ELT in low-to-mid income countries, the book focuses on the challenges faced by practitioners and learners in contexts of confinement, conflict and special education. The chapters in this collection examine the challenges and problems that emerge from the complex current ELT environment, and present examples of contextualized inquiry-based strategies and interventions to address these challenges. Underlining the need to extend the boundaries of the discipline of ELT to include teaching-learning in less privileged contexts, this wide-ranging volume will appeal to students, scholars and practitioners of English Language Teaching.

Author : Steve Walsh,Steve Mann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Sarah Benesch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317566205

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Emotions and English Language Teaching by Sarah Benesch Pdf

Taking a critical approach that considers the role of power, and resistance to power, in teachers’ affective lives, Sarah Benesch examines the relationship between English language teaching and emotions in postsecondary classrooms. The exploration takes into account implicit feeling rules that may drive institutional expectations of teacher performance and affect teachers’ responses to and decisions about pedagogical matters. Based on interviews with postsecondary English language teachers, the book analyzes ways in which they negotiate tension—theorized as emotion labor—between feeling rules and teachers’ professional training and/or experience, in particularly challenging areas of teaching: high-stakes literacy testing; responding to student writing; plagiarism; and attendance. Discussion of this rich interview data offers an expanded and nuanced understanding of English language teaching, one positing teachers’ emotion labor as a framework for theorizing emotions critically and as a tool of teacher agency and resistance.

Author : Martin Parrott
Publisher : Ernst Klett Sprachen
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : English language
ISBN : 3125337313

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Grammar for English Language Teachers by Martin Parrott Pdf

Author : Meenakshi Raman
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : English language
ISBN : 8126903287

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English Language Teaching by Meenakshi Raman Pdf

Nvention Of New Classroom Practices And Innovative Approaches To Designing Language Programmes And Materials Reflect A Commitment To Finding More Efficient And More Effective Ways Of Teaching Languages. The Classroom Teacher Has A Wider Variety Of Methodological Options To Choose From Than Ever Before. They Can Choose Methods And Materials According To The Needs Of The Learners, The Preferences Of Teachers And The Constrains Of Their Institution Or Educational Setting.Though Technology Can Play A Dominant Role In English Language Teaching (Elt) In The Contemporary Society, The Need For Developing The Four Basic Language Skills In Elt Classrooms Still Prevails. The Perspicacious Papers Presented In This Volume Provide An Insight Into The Deeper Understanding Of The Various Issues Involved In Teaching English At The University Level. These Papers Cover A Broad Spectrum Of Topics Under Elt Ranging From Theoretical Aspects Such As Form And Function In Language Learning To The Most Useful Practical Aspects Such As Communicative Language Teaching In A Multimedia Language Laboratory.Both The Teachers And The Researchers May Find This Volume On Elt Extremely Useful In Identifying, Appreciating And Comprehending The Nuances Of English Language Teaching.