Titlebook: Innovating EFL Teaching in Asia; Theron Muller,Steven Herder,Philip Shigeo Brown Book 2012 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Pub

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Learner Autonomy in Asia: How Asian Teachers and Students See Themselvesudents’ autonomy in the classroom in many different contexts and cultures. However, it is often the case that learner autonomy in the Asian context is discussed by teachers and researchers from the non-Asian, “Inner Circle”. (Kachru, 1992) community, framed with . views of Asian students. For exampl

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How Thai National Culture Can Be Used to Explain Students’ Behaviore. Although there are many ways of defining the concept of culture, the most common use of the word is to refer to national culture. Within this concept, culture comes to be viewed simply as either behavior or fixed values and beliefs, separated from social interaction and reality (Roberts & Sarangi

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Co-constructing Teacher Beliefs about Qualifications: Insights from Interviews in the Japanese Conteapanese and non-Japanese teachers towards qualifications are investigated. As a common theme running through this section of the book, it is important to seek ways to effectively express those voices. This chapter puts forward a co-constructed semi-structured interview approach as a means to do so,

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‘Reconceptualizing’ Self as a Teacher in a Malaysian Contextbeliefs about teaching (Kagan, 1992; Velez-Rendon, 2006; Walkington, 2005). These have developed from the “apprenticeship of observation” (Lortie, 1975: 60) or their personal experience as consumers. While these preconceived ideas about teaching may be what motivates students to consider teaching as

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Promoting Strategy Teaching as an Innovative Practice in the Asian EFL Oral Classroomte social and communicative functions within the community where it is learned and speaking is often neglected in EFL classrooms. In view of this, this chapter proposes oral communication strategy teaching as an innovative practice to promote teaching speaking skills in Asia and beyond.

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Innovating a Vocabulary Learning Strategies Programrning strategies. Where they overlap is represented by the growing field of vocabulary learning strategies (VLS) (Nation, 2001). Recent findings indicate that integrated VLS instruction can lead to significantly improved vocabulary performance (Nyikos & Fan, 2007) and that learners benefit from deve

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Classroom Discourse Analysis of Student Use of Language Scaffolding During Tasksnfluences student classroom production and ultimate uptake remains largely unexplored, despite some research interest in the topic (Boston, 2008). This chapter addresses the issue by exploring, through discourse analysis, two different means of scaffolding, one materials mediated student–student int

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Exploring Teachers’ Implementation of the Recent Curriculum Innovation in ELT in Turkish Primary Edu the language for international communication, given the status English holds as a global language or lingua franca (Crystal, 1997). As noted by Nunan (2003: 589), “the demand for English and English language education has exploded with economic globalization. It is the language of business, technol