Asian English Language Classrooms: Where Theory And Practice Meet (routledge Research In Language Education)

The teaching of English in the Asian context is always challenging and dynamic because both teachers and learners have diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Equally important, where English is not widely used outside the classroom, English language classrooms are an authentic site of learner engagement. For these reasons, for all those concerned with contemporary English language teaching (ELT) in Asia, Asian English Language Classrooms: Where Theory and Practice Meet, provides an account of theoretical orientations and practices in the teaching of English to multilingual speakers whose primary language is not English. While covering the fundamental ELT areas (e.g., the teaching of language skills, educational literature, the use of technology in ELT, the role of pragmatics in ELT, social psychology of the language classroom, and language classroom management) with which every language teacher and teacher trainer must be concerned, this volume showcases how particular orientations shape ELT practices. We believe that practicing English teachers must have a heightened awareness of the theory behind their practice. At the same time, the theoretical stance must be firmly anchored in actual classrooms. Containing newly commissioned chapters written by well-regarded and emerging scholars, this book will appeal not only to beginning teachers or teachers in training but also to established teachers around Asia where English is used as a lingua franca. If you are a student teacher of English or an English teacher who would like to see what other progressive teachers like you are doing across Asia, this is the book you have been looking for. Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: re-contextualizing English language teaching in Asia today -- 2 Teaching listening in pre-tertiary and tertiary English education in Japan -- 3 Developing speaking for intercultural communication: textbooks with critical and creative approaches -- 4 Teaching reading through multimodal texts -- 5 Supplementing extensive reading for Japanese EFL learners -- 6 Teaching writing to multilingual learners using the genre-based approach -- 7 Teaching communicative vocabulary -- 8 What EFL teachers should know about online grammar tasks -- 9 Teaching pronunciation to adult learners of English -- 10 Fluency in language classrooms: extensive listening and reading -- 11 Literature in an age of distraction -- 12 Expressing study abroad experiences in second language haiku writing: theoretical and practical implications for teaching haiku composition in Asian EFL classrooms -- 13 Exploring ICT tools in English language learning: language, technology, and the globalized classroom -- 14 The use of photo story in the Indonesian English language classroom: working with multimodal tasks -- 15 Social psychology of the language classroom -- 16 The role of pragmatics in teaching English as an additional language -- 17 Language classroom management -- Index