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Representations of Anorexia in an EAP Classroom: Critically Engaging with the Body and Its Discourses
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Chun, Christian W. – Classroom Discourse, 2020
Aside from mentioning possible issues of hidden identities and curriculum development relating to anorexia, little research has been done exploring how discourses of eating disorders and images of the body have been mediated by teachers and learners in the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) classroom. Drawing upon an ethnographic EAP classroom…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Curriculum Development, Eating Disorders, Discourse Analysis
EAP Students Co-Constructing Alternative Narratives: Classroom Discursive Representations of Islam and Democracy
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Chun, Christian W. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2019
Little research has been done exploring how Islam has been mediated by English language teachers and learners in the classroom through the prism of dominant discourses in social circulation. Drawing on an ethnographic English for academic purposes (EAP) classroom case study, this article explores how particular meanings of Islam were framed and…
Descriptors: Islam, Video Technology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Addressing Racialized Multicultural Discourses in an EAP Textbook: Working toward a Critical Pedagogies Approach
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Chun, Christian W. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2016
Racialized multicultural discourses emerge in the TESOL classroom via textbook representations of immigrant success stories and perceived racial and cultural differences among students. Although liberal multicultural discourses may be well intentioned, these discourses warrant closer examination for the ways in which they can essentialize cultural…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
The Multimodalities of Globalization: Teaching a YouTube Video in an EAP Classroom
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Chun, Christian W. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2012
This article examines the ways in which a multimodal text--a YouTube video on globalization and business--was mediated in two English for Academic Purposes (EAP) classrooms, and how these mediations shaped the instructor's and her students' meaning-making in specific ways. I first explore the complex multimodal discourses involved with this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Academic Purposes, Business Administration Education, Intermode Differences
Contesting Neoliberal Discourses in EAP: Critical Praxis in an IEP Classroom
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Chun, Christian W. – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2009
This article explores ways in which a university Intensive English Program (IEP) featuring English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at a U.S. university functions as an institutionalized discursive space of neoliberalism. By examining discourses that one program adopts in promoting itself online, and in the curriculum material used in IEP/EAP classes,…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Ideology, Cultural Differences, Instructional Materials