Challenges of Second and Foreign Language Education in a Globalized World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Challenges of Second and Foreign Language Education in a Globalized World write by Mirosław Pawlak. This book was released on 2017-09-07. Challenges of Second and Foreign Language Education in a Globalized World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited collection brings together papers by eminent scholars who attempt to demonstrate how challenges can most successfully be ameliorated with an eye to enhancing the effectiveness of the processes of language teaching and learning. In Part One, emphasis is placed on challenges that second language education has to face, both those more general, dealing with language policy issues, and those more specific, concerned with instructional options in the language classroom. Part Two focuses on challenges involved in researching the processes of teaching and learning in the second and foreign languages classroom, both with respect to research methodology and efforts to tap some variables impinging upon the effects of instruction. Finally, Part Three is devoted to challenges involved in second and foreign language teacher education, the quality of which to a large extent determines the outcomes of second language education in any educational context.
Globalization and Language Teaching
Globalization and Language Teaching - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Globalization and Language Teaching write by David Block. This book was released on 2002. Globalization and Language Teaching available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book considers the issues globalization raises for second language learning and teaching in an economy where the linguistic skills of workers is becoming increasingly important.
Language Policy, Ideology and Educational Practices in a Globalised World
Language Policy, Ideology and Educational Practices in a Globalised World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Policy, Ideology and Educational Practices in a Globalised World write by Delombera Negga. This book was released on 2017. Language Policy, Ideology and Educational Practices in a Globalised World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The challenges posed by globalization for languages, policies and education form the basis of this collection of selected doubly-blind peer-reviewed articles, which have been put together following the 2014 PLIDAM conference on “Policies and Ideologies in Language Teaching: Actors and discourses”. The chapters collected in this volume revolve around the topic of globalization, which we understand to be a blend of ideas covered by at least four meanings: (1) internationalization, in reference to the growing interdependence and transactions between countries; (2) liberalization, which has to do with the forming of an ‘open’ and ‘borderless’ world economy; (3) universalization of certain phenomena around the world; and (4) westernization, with an emphasis on the influence of Western values (gender equality, freedom of speech and other ideas inspired by the West) over the rest of the world. The four broad themes that the chapters are organised into are (I) Policies in Language Teaching and Learning; (II) Language Policy, Ideology and Minority Languages; (III) Language Teaching and Learning across Cultures; (IV) Language Teaching and Learning with Technology. Contributing to the knowledge, discussion and debate about the impact that globalization has had on languages, policies and education in a wide variety of contexts, we hope that this book will be useful and informative to language researchers, policy makers and anyone with an interest in the intersecting field between languages, policies and education.
Project-Based Second and Foreign Language Education
Project-Based Second and Foreign Language Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Project-Based Second and Foreign Language Education write by Gulbahar H. Beckett. This book was released on 2006-09-01. Project-Based Second and Foreign Language Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dewey's idea of Project-based Learning (PBL) was introduced into the field of second language education nearly two decades ago as a way to reflect the principles of student-centered teaching (Hedge, 1993). Since then, PBL has also become a popular language and literacy activity at various levels and in various contexts (see Beckett, 1999; Fried-Booth, 2002; Levis & Levis, 2003; Kobayashi, 2003; Luongo- Orlando, 2001; Mohan & Beckett, 2003; Weinstein, 2004). For example, it has been applied to teach various ESL and EFL skills around the world (e.g., Fried-Booth, 2002). More recently, PBL has been heralded as the most appropriate approach to teaching content-based second language education (Bunch, et al., 2001; Stoller, 1997), English for specific purposes (Fried-Booth, 2002), community-based language socialization (Weinstien, 2004), and critical and higher order thinking as well as problem-solving skills urged by the National Research Council (1999). Despite this emphasis, there is a severe shortage of empirical research on PBL and research-based frameworks and models based on sound theoretical guidance in general and second and foreign language education in particular (Thomas, 2000). Also missing from the second and foreign language education literature is systematic discussion of PBL work that brings together representative work, identifying obvious gaps, and guiding the field toward future directions. This, first of its kind, volume bridges these obvious gaps through the original work of international scholars from Canada, Israel, Japan, Singapore, and the US.
Language Learning in Anglophone Countries
Language Learning in Anglophone Countries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Learning in Anglophone Countries write by Ursula Lanvers. This book was released on 2021-01-07. Language Learning in Anglophone Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited book focuses on the state of language learning in Anglophone countries and brings together international research from a wide range of educational settings. Taking a contextual perspective on the language learning crisis currently facing Anglophone countries, the authors examine systemic challenges, real-world practices, and broader cultural trends that have an impact on the uptake of modern foreign languages in different Anglophone settings. This book will be of interest to scholars working in applied linguistics and language education, particularly those with a focus on educational policy and Global English.
