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Natalia Wright, Editor – English Language Education, 2025
This volume focuses on glocalization in English language teaching and learning, examining the challenges of its implementation. It describes the innovative practices of multilingual TESOL practitioners from various parts of the world, offering nuanced perspectives on how to glocalize teaching methods, curricula, materials, and teacher preparation.…
Descriptors: Global Approach, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Hickey, Raymond, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2020
South Africa is a country characterised by great linguistic diversity. Large indigenous languages, such as isiZulu and isiXhosa, are spoken by many millions of people, as well as the languages with European roots, such as Afrikaans and English, which are spoken by several millions and used by many more in daily life. This situation provides a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics
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Mideros, Diego, Ed.; Roberts, Nicole, Ed.; Carter, Beverly-Anne, Ed.; Reinders, Hayo, Ed. – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2023
This book presents a unique perspective from an underrepresented region in the Global South. The volume features four different countries in the region: Barbados, Guyana, St. Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as Martinique, an island located just north of St. Lucia which is an overseas region of France. It documents innovations in learning…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Spanish
Selvi, A. F.; Yazan, B. – TESOL International Association, 2013
English has unquestionably become a global phenomenon, generating a fundamental discussion of EIL pedagogy for English language teaching practitioners around the world. Teaching English as an International Language captures this important moment in the history of English language teaching. Readers will find an accessible introduction to the past,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Variation
Wei, Li, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"The Routledge Applied Linguistics Reader" is an essential collection of readings for students of Applied Linguistics. Divided into five sections: Language Teaching and Learning, Second Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics, Identity and Power and Language Use in Professional Contexts, the "Reader" takes a broad…
Descriptors: World Problems, Discourse Communities, Creativity, Applied Linguistics
Dogancay-Aktuna, Seran, Ed.; Hardman, Joel, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2008
Today's English language teaching goes beyond the norms of English spoken and taught in native-English-speaking countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, or Australia. Increasingly, a variety of countries have established, formally or informally, a kind of English unique to their own populations, and English language teachers within…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Local Issues, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Facchinetti, Roberta, Ed.; Crystal, David, Ed.; Seidlhofer, Barbara, Ed. – Peter Lang Bern, 2010
All languages encode aspects of culture and every culture has its own specificities to be proud of and to be transmitted. The papers in this book explore aspects of this relationship between language and culture, considering issues related to the processes of internationalization and localization of the English language. The volume is divided into…
Descriptors: Group Membership, English, Jews, Foreign Countries
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2005
To be an English teacher today is to play an inevitable part in the globalizing of English. This volume canvasses important questions for English language teachers that are posed by the phenomenon of a global English: (1) Whose language? English speakers today are more likely to use English with multilingual speakers than with monolingual…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, Global Approach, English Instruction
Wendell, Margaret M. – 1982
The primary focus of this book is upon the training of local writers to enable a preliterate, minority language group to produce reading materials that reflect the cultural interests and desires of the group. The training program described in the book involves three components: intensive linguistic study culminating in a tentative orthographic…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Developing Nations, Global Approach