Introduction: Dis-Orient to Re-Orient Ourselves? -- 1- Reconceptualising the ‘Other’ in Australian universities -- 2- Encountering ‘the West’ through academic mobility: Shifting representations and reinforced stereotypes -- 3- The PRC “foreign talent” scholars and their Singaporean “Other”: Neo-Occidentalism amidst intercultural contact in the context of higher education student…
Chapter 1. Citizenship Education in the UK -- Chapter 2. A Brief History of Education in Wales -- Chapter 3. The Curriculum Cymreig -- Chapter 4. Researching Curriculum and Culture in Wales -- Chapter 5. Reconceptualising the Curriculum Cymreig.Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy This book explores how culture and citizenship are theorised, promoted and learned throug…
Second Language Writing in Elementary Classrooms focuses on L2 writing in elementary classrooms. It features chapters that highlight research in elementary classrooms focused on the writing development of multilingual children, and research in teacher education to prepare elementary teachers to teach L2 writing and address L2 writers' needs. Part I presents instructional issues for L2 writers a…
Introduction -- Chapter 1: School-University Partnership for Teacher Education -- Chapter 2: Genealogy of Collaboration -- Chapter 3: Examining the Discourse of Collaboration: a critical take -- Chapter 4: Negotiating Beliefs and Practices in School-University Partnerships -- Chapter 5: Negotiating Identities in School-University Partnerships -- Chapter 6: Negotiating Power and Interpersonal Re…
Hanna Komorowska Quantitative and qualitative classroom research – friendship or war? -- Dorota Werbińska Learning from retired language teachers’ biographies: A research proposal -- Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak and Mirosław Pawlak Designing a tool for measuring the interrelationships between l2 WTC and confidence, beliefs, motivation, and context -- Melanie Ellis Capturing effective teachin…
1. Introduction -- 2. Historical Overview of Chinese Language Education for Speakers of Other Languages in China and the United States -- 3. Chinese Government Policies and Initiatives on the International Popularization of Chinese: An Economics of Language Perspective -- 4. U.S. Policies and Initiatives for CFL Education -- 5. Understanding Chinese as a Foreign Language from the Perspective of…
With the ever-increasing integration of new technologies in face-to-face instructional settings, approaches to modern language education pose numerous challenges to program evaluation. Blended Language Program Evaluation introduces an argument-based approach to guide program evaluators and stakeholders through planning, conducting, and appraising evaluation projects that result in useful outcom…
Principles of Task Design in Reading for Polish Learners of English as a Foreign Language -- Mental Model Theories in Reading Research and Instruction -- On Texts Interesting to Read in Foreign Language Teaching -- The Learning Potential of Study Questions in TEFL Textbooks -- Learner Perception of Academic Register at the Undergraduate Level -- Assessment of Language Learners’ Spoken Texts: …
Introduction by Robert Kirkpatrick & Thuy Thi Ngoc Bui -- English-in-education Policy and Planning in Bangladesh: A Critical Examination by M. Obaidul Hamid & Elizabeth J. Erling -- English Language Education Policies in the People’s Republic of China by Jeffrey Gil -- English Language Education Policy and the Native-speaking English Teacher (NET) Scheme in Hong Kong by Mihyon Jeon -- English…
PART I. THEORIES, RESEARCH, AND PRINCIPLES -- English Language Teaching Today: An Introduction by Willy A. Renandya & Handoyo Puji Widodo -- Student-Centred Learning in ELT by George M Jacobs & Willy A Renandya -- Using Local Languages in English Language Classrooms by Ahmar Mahboob & Angel Lin -- Applying Language Learning Principles to Coursebooks by John Macalister -- Current Issues in the…