Titlebook: International Handbook of English Language Teaching; Jim Cummins,Chris Davison Book 2007 Springer-Verlag US 2007 ESL.Evaluation.Language L

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Focus on Literacyays in which mainstream educational policy and practice have attempted to adapt in recognizing that linguistic diversity is the norm rather than the exception in modern British society. Policy and practice for meeting the varied and specific needs of second language learners are set in the context o

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Methods, Meanings and Education Policy in the United Statesislation? NCLB imposed a centralized set of mandates, backed up by punitive accountability requirements, on US schools. In the process, local realities and their historical contexts are dismissed as irrelevant to the overall goal of boosting academic achievement. This chapter notes the parallels bet

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Introduction: The Goals and Focus of the ELT Program: Problematizing Content and Pedagogy on teaching the English language. Although at some fundamental level such assumptions are undoubtedly valid, they have been severely tested by recent paradigm shifts in the field of second language acquisition and applied linguistics which have given much greater emphasis to the role of context in

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English Language Teaching in Korea, I argue that when the global English is . through critical pedagogy, English can work as a language of opportunity for Koreans. A critical understanding of the complex relationship between ELT and colonialism and a reconceptualization of the ownership of English in Korea will have implications for

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ELT and Bilingual Education in Argentinad on this law, English is now compulsory in all Argentine schools—a clear sign of the government’s recognition of the importance of mastering the world’s lingua franca. In this chapter, the implementation of the new education law and its impact on the teaching of English in public schools is discuss

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English, No Longer a Foreign Language in Europe?ds seeing English as detached from Anglo-American norms are scrutinized, and limitations in the existing research are identified. Efforts nationally and in the EU directed towards strengthening multilingualism in education need to address the political, economic and cultural aspects of Englishizatio

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Common Property: English as a Lingua Franca in Europeessentially distinct from and independent of English as a native language; and b) an empirically-based description of the linguistic properties of actual ELF usage. Such conceptualization and description will be prerequisites for adequately responding to the changing demands and directions that Euro

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Teaching English as a Third Languageto improve proficiency in English: the early introduction of English in kindergarten, the use of content based approaches, and the use of English as one of the languages of instruction. This chapter describes the characteristics of these projects and discusses their outcomes as they relate to specif

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Protecting English in an Anglophone Agenance and cultural influence, invites curiosity as to its aims, origins, politics, and ideologies. The chapter discusses bilingual education as a key site of struggle in language policy in the US. The chapter concludes with a critique of language policy and planning theory in relation to official En