Bridges for Peace: A Journey in Three Stages (So Far)

10.47908/11/5 ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 66-80
Author(s):  
Gerry Yokota
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Peace Studies ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Japanese Art ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
The University

Gerry Yokota shows how over the course of her career, from a beginning academic to an experienced professor, she merged the three aspects of work required of career academics (teaching, research, and service to the university) to shape a life that is satisfying and revolves around what means the most to her: issues related to peace. She discusses the integration of the Japanese art form, Noh, peace studies, and English language teaching with cognitive linguistics serving as the bridge to connect these to bring them to life in the classroom.

English Language Learning as Intercultural Experience

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Hamza R'boul ◽  
M Camino Bueno-Alastuey
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Education ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Intercultural Relations ◽  
Intercultural Experience ◽  
The University ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

Teaching English in higher education entails additional factors and considerations that exemplify the complexity of accounting for the diverse population in modern higher education institutions. In particular, the increasing flow of international students and the employment demands of functioning in multicultural contexts render helping students to develop a critical understating of intercultural relations an important aspect of English language teaching. With the increasing adoption of English as a medium of instruction and its use as a lingua franca in intercultural communication, it is important to structure English education in a way that accounts for intercultural relations both in and outside the university. In addition to the postmodern conceptualizations of interculturality that emphasize the fluidity of culture, language and identity intercultural relations are characterized by power imbalances. That is why this chapter makes a case for the necessity of considering sociopolitical realities in intercultural English language teaching in higher education.

English language teaching research in Egypt: trends and challenges

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (9) ◽  
pp. 818-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad M. M. Abdel Latif
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Research

INNOVATIONS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL: FLIPPING THE CLASSROOM

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ksenia Volchenkova ◽  
Elena Yaroslavova ◽  
Oksana Belkina
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Exploring mono/multilingual practices on the CELTA course: What trainers say

2021 ◽  
pp. 136216882199125
Author(s):  
Fiona Gallagher ◽  
Catherine Geraghty
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
First Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Speakers Of Other Languages ◽  
L1 Use ◽  
The University

This article examines mono- and bi/multilingual practices on the University of Cambridge CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) course. This course is generally considered to be one of the most popular and widely-recognized initial teacher education programmes in English language teaching worldwide. The article describes a small research project which explored the views of 77 CELTA trainers in relation to the use of the first language (L1) in English language teaching and centred on how this issue is addressed on the teacher training courses they worked on. The study included trainers who use English either as an L1 or as a second language (L2) and both monolingual and bi/multilingual participants. Respondents worked in shared-L1 (where learners share a common language other than English) and in multilingual teaching and training contexts. The need to develop a theoretical framework in relation to L1 use in English language teaching and for a more explicit and considered focus on this issue on the CELTA course was identified, so that both trainers and trainee-teachers can make informed pedagogic decisions around L1 use in their teaching and professional practices. Findings also point to the need for wider discussion within the CELTA community on issues relating to the traditionally monolingual and one-size-fits-all orientation of the course and to the potential added-value of language teachers and educators who bring bilingual skills and perspectives to the classroom, particularly non-native English speakers.

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