ELT: Converging Approaches and Challenges

Christoph Haase

2011年5月 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

電子書

225

頁

符合資格

評分和評論未經驗證瞭解詳情

關於本電子書

This volume represents an outgrowth of the 7th international ATECR conference, which brought together researchers and educators from fields as diverse as language teaching in a variety of contexts, corpus linguistics and literary studies. The contributions in this volume show— despite their diversity—a strong common denominator: an aim to bundle efforts and unify parameters in order to optimize English Language Teaching as a world-wide endeavor. Thus, for our teaching it can only be beneficial when linguists talk to literary-minded teachers or methodology specialists investigate whether their theoretical underpinnings make their way into practice by talking to language instructors or language service providers. In general, the authors present a multifaceted picture of the English Language Teaching context with themselves as practitioners but also as investigators and researchers at the same time. The research that reflects back on their teaching thus creates a force-feedback loop not only for the investigating scholar but also for the practicing instructor who reapplies his/her knowledge after failed or suboptimal attempts as evidenced by the data.

關於作者

Christoph Haase is a Cognitive Linguist with a strong interest in SLA (Second Language Acquisition) and EFL (English as a Foreign Language). After 10 years at German universities (PhD, 2003) he now works at the J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, the Czech Republic.

Natalia Orlova is the Head of the Department of English and Associate Professor of TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) at the Faculty of Education at J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, the Czech Republic. She has also worked at Herzen State Pedagogical University in Saint-Petersburg, the Russian Federation. She has given presentations at TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) conventions in the USA and has held workshops for teachers in a variety of countries. She is also a co-author of textbooks for school and university students. Her main research interests include ways of developing pre-service EFL teachers’ professional competence and cross-cultural issues.