Critical Literacy Approach to English as a Foreign Language: From Theory to Practice
Nizar Kamal Ibrahim
Jun 2022 · English Language Education Book 29 · Springer Nature
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This book discusses how to approach critical literacy in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts. It responds to the concerns of educators who get enthusiastic about teaching critical literacy, but become perplexed when they start reading about its theories. This causes some to avoid it altogether and leads others to argue for practicing it without theory. The book argues that both positions should be reconsidered and capitalizes on the notion of praxis, a notion introduced by Freire to explicate the various subtle connections between theory and practice.
The book instills the theoretical assumptions of critical literacy with as little jargon as possible, with many practical illustrations. It will be of interest to graduate and undergraduate students, language teachers, program and material developers, researchers, and educational policy makers.
About the author
Professor Ibrahim holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, and is currently a Doctor of TEFL at the Lebanese University, Faculty of Education. He has more than 8 publications and he has received, among other things, two research grants from Lebanese University and a Herbert Karter award from the University of Arizona. Being a visually disabled person and active in the Lebanese disability movement, he was the president of the Youth Association of the Blind (YAB) in 2017-Feb. 2022, Lebanon.
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