1st Edition

Faces of English Education Students, Teachers, and Pedagogy

Edited By Lillian L. C. Wong, Ken Hyland Copyright 2017
    292 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    292 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Faces of English Education provides an accessible, wide-ranging introduction to current perspectives on English language education, covering new areas of interest and recent studies in the field. In seventeen specially commissioned chapters written by international experts and practitioners, this book:

    • offers an authoritative discussion of theoretical issues and debates surrounding key topics such as identity, motivation, teacher education and classroom pedagogy;
    • discusses teaching from the perspective of the student as well as the teacher, and features sections on both in- and out-of-class learning;
    • showcases the latest teaching research and methods, including MOOCs, use of corpora, and blended learning, and addresses the interface between theory and practice;
    • analyses the different ways and contexts in which English is taught, learned and used around the world.

    Faces of English Education is essential reading for pre- and in-service teachers, researchers in TESOL and applied linguistics, and teacher educators, as well as upper undergraduate and postgraduate students studying related topics.

    1. Faces of English language research and teaching
    Ken Hyland and Lillian Wong

      Section 1: Students: Identity, motivation and learning

    2. Identity and the ownership of English across global sites
    Bonny Norton

    3. What influences performance?: Personal Style or the Task Being Done?
    Peter Skehan and Sabrina Shum

    4. Incorporating reflective writing to promote language development and identity awareness
    Rebecca Toner and Rachel Chaffin

    5. Exploring the motivational development and academic choices of local and international English Majors in China
    Aaron Doyle  

      Section 2: Teaching: Classroom pedagogies and practices

    6. Teaching as input
    Rod Ellis

    7. The Production-oriented Approach: A pedagogical innovation in university English teaching in China
    Wen Qiufang

    8. Do-it-yourself corpora in the classroom: Views of students and teachers
    Maggie Charles

    9. Popular culture as content based instruction in the second language classroom to enhance critical engagement
    Anne Peirson-Smith

    Section 3: Learning: Activities beyond the classroom

    10. Language learning beyond the classroom
    David Nunan

    11. ESP project work: The collaborative processes involved in students’ learning experiences
    Lindsay Miller and Christoph A. Hafner

    12. Participants' engagement in and perceptions of English language MOOCs
    Sean McMinn

    13. Social learning analytics in online language learning: Challenges and future directions
    Michael Thomas, Hayo Reinders, and Anouk Gelan 

      Section 4: Teachers: Education and professional development

    14. Going online: Affordances and limitations for teachers and teacher Educators
    Denise E. Murray and MaryAnn Christison

    15. Examining the discourse of language teacher supervision: The learning experiences of two novice supervisors
    Anita Krishnan, Courtney Pahl, and Kathleen M. Bailey

    16. The personal and professional development of novice English teachers working in South Korea
    Laura Taylor

    17. Preparing teachers for the challenges of constructivist teaching
    Vincent Greenier

    Biography

    Lillian Wong is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Applied English Studies at the University of Hong Kong.

    Ken Hyland is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Applied English Studies at the University of Hong Kong.

    "Authoritative chapters carefully organized on a full range of current issues by leading authorities and emerging scholars of English language teaching and learning that will interest practicing language teachers and senior students around the world."
    Alister Cumming, University of Toronto, Canada

    "This book provides a wealth of expertise across a broad range of topics. Some chapters bring traditional ideas up to date; others report on innovative approaches to teaching and learning. All the chapters are detailed, informative and thought-provoking. The book will be essential reading on courses designed for ELT professionals."
    Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham, UK

    "Faces of English Education is a very useful addition to the bookshelves of those involved inTESOL programmes, especially at Masters level. Its balance of theory, practice and methodology provides postgraduate students with a set of tools with which to evaluate current practices, and to reflect onways in which their own practices may in future be more research-informed and based on pedagogical interventions that have been trailblazed by others."

    Gregory Hadley, Journal of English for Academic Purposes 31 (2018)

    "[...] by integrating theories and practice into one single volume, [this book] offers well-theorized models and applicable advice for researchers, instructors and teacher educators. Concepts and ideas like identity (Chapter 2), learning analytics (Chapter 13), and OLTE (Chapter 14) are clearly presented and fully extended before application. Pedagogical experience and detailed procedures are shared to enlighten teaching practitioners, such as the use of tailormade corpora (Chapter 8), reflective writing (Chapter 4), ESP project work (Chapter 11), and the practice of POA (Chapter 7). Implications or suggestions are also offered in each chapter from which teachers and researchers of various backgrounds are bound to gain insightful ideas for teaching practice and further ELT research."

    Longxing Li & Zhicheng Mao, Language and Education, 32:3 (2018)