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Title Critical ELT practices in Asia / Kiwan Sung, Rod Pederson (eds.)
Published Rotterdam ; Boston : SensePublishers, 2012

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Description 1 online resource
Series Transgressions, Cultural studies and education ; v. 82
Transgressions (Rotterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 82.
Contents Representation, Globalization, and the Native Speaker: Dialectics of Language, Ideology, and Power / Rod Pederson -- Critical Practices in Asia: A Project of Possibilities in the era of World Englishes / Kiwan Sung -- A Critical Analysis of English Language Teaching in Today's Market Economy in China / Yan Guo and Gulbahar Beckett -- Critical Practice in English Language Education in Hong Kong: Challenges and Possibilities / Angel M.Y. Lin -- Changing Habits Through a Pedagogy of Engagement: Student-Fronted Discussions and Appropriat(iv)E Responses in Tesol Seminars / Mark C. Love -- English for Advocacy Purposes: Critical Pedagogy's Contribution to Indonesia / Joseph Ernest Mambu -- Critical Pedagogy in ESL/EFL Teaching in South Asia: Practices and Challenges with Examples from Sri Lanka / Indika Liyanage -- Critical Practices in ELT as a Project of Possibilities or a Banal Discourse / Kiwan Sung and Rod Pederson
Summary This is the first, and long awaited work on critical approaches to teaching English for the purposes of democracy and social justice that challenges the current views of ELT, such as English being merely a tool for communication or the acquisition of basic skills or high test scores for advancement in education and the marketplace. - A timely work and a fresh look at critical approaches to ELT in Asia. - An invaluable work that simultaneously problematizes current ELT practices while introducing new possibilities for critical practices in localized contexts in Asia. - An important work that shines a light on how the forces of globalization not only dictate the spread of English as an international language, but how these forces also dictate what is taught and how. - An informative view on how ELT practices are being re-envisioned by critical educators in Asia. This groundbreaking volume, compiling critical perspectives of English language teaching in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, and Sri Lanka, confronts colonial legacies observed in educational practices and policies that perpetuate a divide between the privileged and the underprivileged.?The critical reflections scrutinize the nature of English as a commodified gatekeeper and simultaneously provide alternative visions for language education. - Ryuko Kubota, Professor, The university of British Columbia
Analysis Education
onderwijs
Education (General)
Onderwijs (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject English language -- Study and teaching -- Asia
English language -- Social aspects -- Asia
EDUCATION -- Elementary.
Education.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
English language -- Social aspects
English language -- Study and teaching
Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Sung, Kiwan
Pederson, Rod
ISBN 9789460917974
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