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Domenach, Florent; Araki, Naoko; Agnello, Mary Frances – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2021
This discussion examines the ever-increasing impact of top-down nation-wide educational reforms on teachers in Japan, exemplified in the 2020 reform. Its unique contribution is a suggestion of an interdisciplinary framework: programming education and English as a foreign language education in elementary schools. Many elementary school teachers are…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Murphey, Tim – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2019
A conception of social testing is described in which students are directed to give themselves grades at two moments: first, after filling in answers that they recall alone; second, after asking others in the class for mediating help during social interaction. The first grade is an estimate of individual efforts, without social connections. The…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Recall (Psychology), Peer Relationship, Interpersonal Communication
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Pearson, Jayne – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2017
This article reports on the design and implementation of an alternative form of writing assessment in a UK English for Academic Purposes (EAP) pre-sessional course. The assessment, termed processfolio, was a response to research inquiry into how writing assessment in a local context negated student agency and inculcated disempowering models of…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Academic Discourse, Literacy, Foreign Countries
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Lau, Sunny Man Chu; Juby-Smith, Bonita; Desbiens, Isabelle – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2017
bell hooks's (1994) advocacy for teaching to transgress invites educators and students alike to transgress boundaries to strive for ways to know and live fully and deeply as whole human beings. The authors aim to showcase a transgressive attempt in bringing French and English into one multiage (Grades 4-6) classroom, with its two teachers--English…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Critical Literacy, English, Language Arts
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Huh, Seonmin – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2016
This article explores the general patterns of interactions between the teacher and students during the different instructional steps when the teacher attempted to incorporate both conventional skill-based reading and critical literacy in an English as a foreign language (EFL) literacy class in a Korean university. There has been a paucity of EFL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Kumagai, Yuri; Iwasaki, Noriko – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2011
Questioning the traditional reading instruction that overly emphasizes literal comprehension of texts, one of the authors conducted action research and revised her advanced-level Japanese reading course at a university by incorporating some principles from critical literacy. The "critical reading" course aimed at developing students' ability to…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Action Research, Japanese, Reading Instruction