This study of teacher trainees in Luanda, Angola argues that current academic and research literacy practices are questionable and potentially harmful. It calls for a re-evaluation of assumptions about student capability and offers a powerful critique of traditional methods.
This book covers recent topics, approaches, and methodologies in education and applied linguistics. It serves as a reference for undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students and researchers who want to learn about the latest developments in these fields.
Reflective Development through the Care Model
Christodoulou proposes a new model for engaging teachers in transformational learning through an ‘emotionalized’ version of reflection. She presents the Collaborative, Appreciative, Reflective Enquiry (CARE) model, a guide for teachers to engage in reflective practice.
The papers here provide global and local teaching scenarios, addressing such matters as the need for diagnostic tests and re-examining language policies in Asian countries. They offer valuable information for researchers working in the field of English Language Teaching.
Learning Spaces for Inclusion and Social Justice
Stemming from a Nordic research project conducted in Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, this anthology draws lessons from success stories of individual immigrant students and whole school communities in developing learning contexts that are equitable and socially just.
This compendium is a clear reflection of the realities and dynamics of language teaching in Iranian classrooms and the new trends within the Iranian EFL community over the last decade. It covers a variety of recent topics within the context of English language teaching in Iran.
Romanowski introduces intercultural communication, giving examples of classroom activities, as well as presenting empirical research. He offers a novel model of intercultural sensitivity assessment and outlines the results of intercultural communicative competence research.
Mastering Remote Pedagogy
This book explores remote education, addressing the shifts prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic and their lasting impact. Reflecting on educators’ experiences, it offers an essential resource for enhancing teaching strategies and navigating the complexities of remote pedagogy.
This book challenges ELT’s traditional over-focus on Anglophone culture. As most English communication now occurs as a lingua franca between non-native speakers, this book offers an approach which rebalances content for localised and multicultural contexts.
Aesthetic Teaching Pedagogies
Inocian presents a range of teaching strategies appropriate for 21st century learners, and highlights the outcomes-based assessment of learning; the curriculum basics for arts-based teaching; and activities based on the integrated arts.
Marginalization Processes across Different Settings
This book challenges typical studies of marginalization. Going beyond static categories, it focuses on how marginalization is constituted in action—in mundane processes across diverse institutional, geopolitical, and everyday settings.
This book explores the skills for effective language teaching in a changing world. Covering multilingualism, assessment, and digital tools, it presents innovative approaches to foster competent teachers. A valuable resource for teacher educators and scholars.
Drawing on experiences from practitioners across the globe, this book re-visualizes language assessment. It provides effective, inventive concepts for teachers and developers to create assessment tools that reflect authentic, needs-based language use.
Khalifa examines Cairenes’ interlingual errors in English main word stress following a metrical model and parameter resetting. The findings show the difficulty of stressing items with stress different from Cairene Colloquial Arabic (CCA) and with stress similar to CCA.