Immigration, Diversity and Language Education in Japan: toward a Glocal Approach to Teaching English

2011 ◽  
pp. 101-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryuko Kubota
Keyword(s):  
Language Education ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Approach To Teaching

“It’s a Black Hole . . .”: Exploring Teachers’ Narratives and Practices for Digital Literacies in the Adult EAL Context

2021 ◽  
pp. 074171362199151
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Tour ◽  
Edwin Creely ◽  
Peter Waterhouse
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Digital Literacies ◽  
Strength Based ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Teachers Perspectives

A strength-based approach to teaching digital literacies can advance language education for adults from refugee and migrant backgrounds, preparing them for life in a new country. This article draws on a 6-month ethnographic study at an adult English language center in Australia and explores teachers’ perspectives and practices related to teaching digital literacies to understand how prepared they are to employ learners’ own resources. Using sociomaterial theory, this research found that English as an Additional Language (EAL) teachers’ narratives about learners focused on what they lacked rather than what they brought to learning. It also found that while teaching practices utilized some strength-based pedagogical principles, the teachers viewed their work as being deficient. They did not always recognize their agential power nor did they overtly understand that the technology itself afforded this power. The article concludes with implications for EAL practice and professional learning of teachers who work in the adult sector.

TBL METHOD IN INTENSIVE FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION SYSTEM AT THE UNIVERSITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 159-165
Author(s):  
JULIA M. FOKINA ◽  
◽  
NADEZHDA V. PORSHNEVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Education System ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
University System ◽  
Training Methodology ◽  
Language Environment ◽  
The University

This article discusses the features of the personal-oriented training methodology TBL (Task-Based Learning), which is based on communicative tasks with the aim of immersion in the language environment. The authors of the article emphasize the advantages of the TBL method compared to traditional methods of teaching English in the university system. In the article the features of group work at the lessons of English are revealed and the factors which influence on its efficiency are formulated. The TBL method is actively used by the authors in their work with students of economic specialties, the experience of implementing the method is also reflected in the analysis of one of the communicative situations.

Debate method for developing communicative competency in teaching English as a foreign language

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-150
Author(s):  
R. Zhumaliyeva ◽  
◽  
А. Muratkyzy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
National Education ◽  
National Education System ◽  
Successful Work ◽  
Communication Activity ◽  
Competency Based

Currently, the effectiveness of using the debate method in teaching English is obvious. Since language is a mean of communication, debate contributes to the development of communicative competency, which plays an important role in the successful work of a specialist in various fields. This article focuses on the method of debate, as one of the communication activity types. The debate method can be used to improve students’ communication skills, allowing them to use linguistic knowledge as a functional competency in a structured (less structured) situation or in the context of a language education. The purpose of this article is to describe the debate method as a productive strategy for teaching communicative competency while teaching English as a foreign language. This research is carried out within the framework of the Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Kazakhstan grant project “Developing and implementing the innovative competency-based model of multilingual IT specialist in the course of national education system modernization”.

I Do and I Understand

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Language Education ◽  
World Language ◽  
Inquiry Based Learning ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
World Language Education ◽  
Approach To Teaching

As a result of globalization, World Language Education has experienced considerable changes within recent decades. With these changes, there is a need for new approaches to teaching and learning a world language, as there is a growing mismatch between language use in the real world and the approach to teaching a world language in the classroom. This chapter, then, presents a pedagogical model that was implemented in an Introduction to Second Language Acquisition course in order to adequately prepare teacher candidates for their future careers as educators in a globalized society. In particular, the model in this chapter discusses authentic experiences grounded in inquiry-based learning that provide opportunities for teacher candidates to collaboratively research current trends in the field of World Language Education and put them into practice through undergraduate research projects.

Supporting Teacher Education Candidates Through the edTPA Process

2018 ◽  
pp. 1843-1858
Author(s):  
Teresa Petty ◽  
Tina L. Heafner ◽  
Joan Lachance ◽  
Drew Polly
Keyword(s):  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Teacher Education Candidates ◽  
Secondary Teaching ◽  
Specific Assessment ◽  
The University ◽  
Licensure Programs

edTPA is a performance-based, content-specific assessment process designed by educators to determine whether new teachers are ready for the job. This chapter provides a thorough description of how two departments at the University of North Carolina implemented edTPA in teacher licensure programs and how candidates were supported through the process. Elementary, Middle Grades, Secondary, Teaching English as a Second Language, and Foreign Language Education programs are described and implementation details of edTPA are provided. Formative supports for each program are presented. Finally, the chapter discusses future directions and next steps.

Stifled Teacher Efficacy

2021 ◽  
pp. 1495-1517
Author(s):  
Ardene Virtue
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Teacher Efficacy ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Experimental Approach ◽  
School Context ◽  
Teacher Agency ◽  
Instructional Approaches ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Approach To Teaching

The chapter proposes that the honing of teacher efficacy is a necessary prerequisite for the implementation of post-method pedagogy (PMP). The application of PMP requires an autonomous practitioner who undertakes an experimental approach to teaching English as a second language. Hence, it is justifiable that teachers would need a high self-assurance in their capabilities to make comprehensive judgments regarding their selection, and effectual employment of teaching practices. The chapter examines how teacher agency is negated by three factors – practitioners' operation as passive implementers of dicta, a product-focussed school context that discourages teachers' self-directed instructional approaches, and teachers' overreliance on teaching resources such as the textbook. Finally, the chapter provides PMP criteria for teachers' effective engagement of textbooks which practitioners could competently apply providing they have achieved their efficacies.

Supporting Teacher Education Candidates through the edTPA Process

2016 ◽  
pp. 1060-1074
Author(s):  
Teresa Petty ◽  
Tina L. Heafner ◽  
Joan Lachance ◽  
Drew Polly
Keyword(s):  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Teacher Education Candidates ◽  
Secondary Teaching ◽  
Specific Assessment ◽  
The University ◽  
Licensure Programs

edTPA is a performance-based, content-specific assessment process designed by educators to determine whether new teachers are ready for the job. This chapter provides a thorough description of how two departments at the University of North Carolina implemented edTPA in teacher licensure programs and how candidates were supported through the process. Elementary, Middle Grades, Secondary, Teaching English as a Second Language, and Foreign Language Education programs are described and implementation details of edTPA are provided. Formative supports for each program are presented. Finally, the chapter discusses future directions and next steps.

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