1st Edition
Contextualizing College ESL Classroom Praxis A Participatory Approach to Effective Instruction
Biography
Lawrence N. Berlin
"...an important contribution to the ongoing discussion on what constitutes effective English as a second language (ESL) teaching practices...Berlin's effective instruction model and participatory framework compel ESL teachers to reflect on and re-examine their perspective on the roles and functions of teachers, students, and the language classroom....this book provides language teacher educators with a valuable supplement to the more traditional texts found in ESL methodology and practicum courses."
—TESL-EJ, September 2006, Vol. 10, No. 2"The voices of the teachers and learners are rich....The approach is inspiring, and can leave readers with will for reflection, an awareness of the complexities of a living multicultural classroom, and with a motivation to embrace and encourage the co-construction of knowledge in a language learning environment."
—Mary E. Wildner-Bassett, University of Arizona"Berlin guides the reader into a fully developed understanding of what it means to be engaged in a participatory approach to language learning. This approach, based on the combined principles of Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy and communicative language teaching, is more than a method, and more than an approach. It is an entirely new way to view the roles of teacher and students together....After reading this book, to become participatory on one's classroom becomes a haunting responsibility, if one claims at all to be democratic, a believer in social justice, or one who simply recognizes the uniqueness of each individual as a learner."
—Lorrie S. Verplaetse, Southern Connecticut State University
