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Internationalizing Teaching, Localizing Learning

An Examination of English Language Teaching Reforms and English Use in China

Paul McPherron (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

239 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-51953-5 (ISBN)

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Based on ethnographic and policy data collected over a ten-year span at a university in the People’s Republic of China, this book analyses the history of English Language Teaching (ELT) polices in Chinese higher education. The book uses the university as a lens in which to investigate the creative imaginations and divergent (re)appropriations of teaching methods, learning materials, and language use in the Chinese ELT context. Book chapters move beyond mere descriptions of tensions and point to the local understandings and practices of English teachers (both local and foreign) and students. Working together, these teachers and students are constantly articulating new social and political conditions and meanings outside and inside given discourses and traditions of ELT. The book’s main argument is that these multiple stakeholders must be given a more prominent role in shaping policy and curriculum at universities and other English language contexts around the world.

Paul McPherron is Associate Professor of English at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY), USA where he also coordinates the ESL program. He is a socio/applied linguist whose research interests involve questions about English language learning and teaching in relation to identity, globalization, and teaching policies, particularly in China and the United States.

Chapter 1: Introductions: Why study globalization and culture through English language learning and teaching in China?.- Chapter 2: Global and local citizens and the creation of a teaching community at CSU.- Chapter 3: Change, tradition, and moral education in CSU teacher roles.- Chapter 4: “My name is Money”: English names and creative play inside and outside the classroom.- Chapter 5: Individualism, voice, and self-assessment in the advanced academic writing course.- Chapter 6: “It’s like some kinds of skills like swim[ing]. You know it but you don’t use it”: (Dis)connections between university teaching reforms and the lives of recent graduates.- Chapter 7: Conclusions: Moving beyond the enduring dichotomies in ELT.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.01.2017
Reihe/Serie	Language and Globalization
Zusatzinfo	3 Illustrations, color; 16 Illustrations, black and white; XXXI, 239 p. 19 illus., 3 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
Schlagworte	English as an international language • English-medium universities, • Language ideology • language teaching reforms • Student Identity • Teacher identity
ISBN-10	1-137-51953-3 / 1137519533
ISBN-13	978-1-137-51953-5 / 9781137519535
Zustand	Neuware