International perspectives on teaching English in a globalised world / edited by Andrew Goodwyn, Louann Reid and Cal Durrant.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goodwyn, Andrew, 1954- editor.

Reid, Louann, editor.

Durrant, Cal, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching.

English language.

Language arts.

Physical Description:

ix, 290 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

The renowned and highly experienced editors of this book bring together the leading voices in contemporary English education under the banner of the International Federation for the Teaching of English (IFTE). The collected chapters here represent the very best of international writing on the teaching of English in the past decade. The key issues and debates surrounding English teaching across the globe are discussed and analysed accessibly, incorporating wide-ranging topics including: the impact of high stakes testing on teaching and learning, addressing the needs of minority groups, the digitisation of literature and new conceptions of text, rewriting the canon, dealing with curriculum change, 'best practices' in the teaching of English, the tension between literacy and English, English and bilingual education, the impact of digital technologies on teaching and learning, conceptions of English as a subject (secondary and tertiary), bringing the critical into the-English/literacy classroom, the future of subject English, empowering voices on the margins, pre-service teacher education, the social networking English classroom. This text looks at the changing face of subject English from the differing, perspectives of policymakers, teacher educators, teachers and their students. It tackles some of the hard questions posed by technological advances in a global society, challenges conventional approaches to teaching and points to the emerging possibilities for a traditional school subject such as English in the face of rapid change and increasing societal expectations. Despite all of the converging political and technological threats, the authors of this engaging and insightful text portray an immense confidence in the ultimate worth of teaching and learning subject English. Book jacket.

Contents:

Literacies and literatures: creative possibilities

What does it mean to know in English

Opportunities or constraints? Where is the space for culturally responsive poetry teaching within high stakes testing regimes at 16+ in Aotearoa, New Zealand and England?

Teachers researching literacy lives

Student, reader, critic, teacher: issues and identities in post-16 English literature

Machines to think with? E-books, Kindles and English teachers, the much prophesied death of the book revisited

The online identities and discourses of teenagers who blog about book

Rewriting the canon: literature curricula text lists

Teaching reading in a digital age: towards an understanding of pedagogic practice

The past: a "foreign country" worth visiting?

Developing student independence in English

Language as putty; framing a relationship between grammar and writing

English teachers, low SES students and intellectual challenge: cases from Australia

Is it endgame for teacher preparation in U.S. universities?

With rest, and time, and a little hope: moving into virtual worlds through multi-modal literacy forms

You are what you read: text selection and cultural capital in the (globalising) English classroom

Web of deceit: is the internet making your students dumb?

Implementation of digital technologies: creating new conversations with students

the (designed) influence of culture on eportfolio practice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0415504473

9780415504461

0415504465

9780415504478

9780203128299

020312829X

OCLC:

772112204

Publisher Number:

99955393902