Critical views on teaching and learning English around the globe : qualitative research approaches

• Other Authors: Alvarez V., Jose Aldemar (Editor), Armanti, Cathy (Editor), Keyl, Shireen (Editor), Mackinney, Erin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2016]
• Series: Research in second language learning.
• Subjects: English language > Study and teaching > Foreign countries.; English language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers.; Education > Bilingual Education.; Language teaching and learning: second or additional languages.; Education of bilingual or multilingual students.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806610402
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-68123-344-4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 225 pages) : illustrations

This volume takes a critical look at teaching and learning English across the globe. Its aim is to fill a gap in the literature created by the omission of the voices of those engaged in the everyday practice of teaching and learning English; those of students, teachers, and specialists. Three unique...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Chapter 1. English around the globe and translocal flows / José Aldemar Álvarez V
• Part I. English language users and identity positionings
• Chapter 2. Framing learners' identity through semiotic designs on social networking sites for language learning / José Aldemar Álvarez V
• Chapter 3. "i translate everything in my head": Maintaining bilingualism in a u.s. Middle school / Erin Mackinney
• Chapter 4. The role of the efl classroom in maintaining multilingual identities: Issues and considerations in sør-trøndelag public schools / Anna Krulatz and Eivind Nessa Torgersen
• Chapter 5. Language learning perspectives and experiences of black English speaking stakeholders in the community of flowers bay, roatan, honduras / Carla McNelly
• Part II. Language ideologies, hierarchies, and social practice
• Chapter 6. "what! You don't know English?": Producing, reproducing, and resisting dominant English ideologies in a Mexican high school / Cathy Amanti
• Chapter 7. "they just have the 'foreigner face'": Ideologies of ethnicity, nationality, native-speakerism, and English in taiwan / Charles Brown
• Chapter 8. Legacies of language ideology in alaska / Jennifer Stone
• Chapter 9. English, arabic, and "good teaching": How language ideologies shape l2 teachers' discourses about teaching and learning / Thomas Deus
• Part III. English, NGOs, and development
• Chapter 10. Learning English in the margins: Migrant worker knowledge production in beirut's ngo spaces / Shireen Keyl
• Chapter 11. "i cannot stay idle in this community": Translocal investments in elt for refugee resettlement / Katherine Silvester
• Chapter 12. A pedagogy of enthusiasm: A critical view of English-language voluntourism / Cora Jakubiak
• Chapter 13. Concluding commentary / Cathy Amanti
• About the editors.