Christian Faith and English Language Teaching and Learning - 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 Christian Faith and English Language Teaching and Learning write by Mary Shepard Wong. This book was released on 2013-02-15. Christian Faith and English Language Teaching and Learning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ideological and educational-political aspects of the link between language and faith—especially between Global English and Christianity—is a topic of growing interest in the field of English language teaching. This book explores the possible role and impact of teachers’ and students’ faith in the English language classroom. Bringing together studies representing a diversity of experiences and perspectives on the philosophies, purposes, practices, and theories of the interrelationship of Christianity and language learning and teaching, it is on the front line in providing empirical data that offers firm insights into the actual role that faith plays in various aspects of the language learning/teaching experience. By adding a data-based dimension, the volume contributes to the cultivation of valid research methods and innovative ways to analyze and interpret studies of the intersection of Christian faith and the practice of teaching and learning language. .
Religious Faith and Teacher Knowledge in English Language Teaching
Religious Faith and Teacher Knowledge in English 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 Religious Faith and Teacher Knowledge in English Language Teaching write by Bradley Baurain. This book was released on 2016-01-14. Religious Faith and Teacher Knowledge in English Language Teaching available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The field of TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) stands at an active crossroads – issues of language, culture, learning, identity, morality, and spirituality mix daily in classrooms around the world. What roles might teachers’ personal religious beliefs play in their professional activities and contexts? Until recently, such questions had been largely excluded from academic conversations in TESOL. Yet the qualitative research at the core of this book, framed and presented within a teacher knowledge paradigm, demonstrates that personal faith and professional identities and practices can, and do, interact and interrelate in ways that are both meaningful and problematic. This study’s Christian TESOL teacher participants, working overseas in Southeast Asia, perceived, explained, and interpreted a variety of such connections within their lived experience. As a result, the beliefs-practices nexus deserves to be further theorized, researched, and discussed. Religious beliefs and human spirituality, as foundational and enduring aspects of human thought and culture, and thus of teaching and learning, deserve a place at the TESOL table.
Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue
Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue - 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 Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue write by Mary Shepard Wong. This book was released on 2009-06-25. Christian and Critical English Language Educators in Dialogue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The legacy of English teaching and Christian missionaries is a flashpoint within the field of English language teaching. This critical examination of the place of Christianity in the field is unique in presenting the voices of TESOL professionals from a wide range of religious and spiritual perspectives. About half identify themselves as "Christian" while the others identify themselves as Buddhist, atheist, spiritualist, and variations of these and other faiths. What is common for all the authors is their belief that values have an important place in the classroom. What they disagree on is whether and how spiritual values should find expression in learning and teaching. This volume dramatizes how scholars in the profession wrestle with ideological, pedagogical, and spiritual dilemmas as they seek to understand the place of faith in education. To sustain this conversation, the book is structured dialogically. Each section includes a set of position chapters in which authors explain their views of faith/pedagogy integration, a set of chapters by authors responding to these positions while articulating their own views on the subject, and discussion questions to engage readers in comparing the positions of all the authors, reflecting on their own experiences and values, and advancing the dialogue in fresh and personal directions.
Spirituality and English Language Teaching
Spirituality and English 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 Spirituality and English Language Teaching write by Mary Shepard Wong. This book was released on 2018-08-09. Spirituality and English Language Teaching available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of 16 reflective accounts and data-driven studies explores the interrelationship of religious identity and English Language Teaching (ELT). The chapters broaden a topic which has traditionally focused on Christianity by including Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and non-religious perspectives. They address the ways in which faith and ELT intersect in the realms of teacher identity, pedagogy and the context and content of ELT, and explore a diverse range of geographical contexts, making use of a number of different research methodologies. The book will be of particular interest to researchers in TESOL and EFL, as well as teachers and teacher trainers.
Teaching and Christian Practices
Teaching and Christian Practices - 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 Teaching and Christian Practices write by David Smith. This book was released on 2011-10-10. Teaching and Christian Practices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Teaching and Christian Practices several university professors describe and reflect on their efforts to allow historic Christian practices to reshape and redirect their pedagogical strategies. Whether allowing spiritually formative reading to enhance a literature course, employing table fellowship and shared meals to reinforce concepts in a pre-nursing nutrition course, or using Christian hermeneutical practices to interpret data in an economics course, these teacher-authors envision ways of teaching and learning that are rooted in the rich tradition of Christian practices, as together they reconceive classrooms and laboratories as vital arenas for faith and spiritual growth.
