Power and Meaning Making in an EAP Classroom (eBook)

Engaging with the Everyday

Christian W. Chun (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-78309-296-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines how critical literacy pedagogy has been implemented in a classroom through a collaboration between the author (a researcher) and an EAP teacher. It will interest researchers and practitioners for the ethnographic and pedagogical issues it raises as well as its accessible theoretical frameworks illustrated by interactional data.

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This book examines how critical literacy pedagogy has been implemented in a classroom through a year-long collaboration between the author (a researcher) and an EAP teacher. It details the teacher's introduction to functional grammar and accompanying critical literacy approaches to EAP, and her growing critical language and discourse awareness of power and meaning making in the classroom. The book traces her evolving classroom practices and addresses how powerful discourses in social circulation found their way into the classroom via the curriculum materials the students encountered. The main themes of the book are threefold: narrowing the divide between critically-oriented researchers and practitioners; how critical literacy is actually implemented in a teacher's classroom; and how people (students and the teacher) engage in and with the representations and discourses of the everyday world that include neoliberal globalization, racial and cultural identities, and consumerism. It will be of interest to both researchers and practitioners for the ethnographic and pedagogical issues it raises as well as its accessible theoretical frameworks illustrated by relevant classroom interactional data, mediated, multimodal and critical discourse analysis.

Autor

lt;p>Christian W. Chun is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include English for Academic Purposes, critical literacies, social-semiotic approaches to language education, visual culture and linguistic landscapes.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: An EAP Classroom

Chapter Three: Exploring the Making of Meanings

Chapter Four: The Multimodalities of Neoliberal Globalization Discourses in YouTube videos

Chapter Five: Engaging with Neoliberalization Discourses, Part Two: Summer term class

Chapter Six: Who is ‘Jennifer Wong’? Multiculturalism and the model minority consumer

Chapter Seven: Bringing the political into an EAP Classroom?

Chapter Eight: Everyday life of an EAP classroom

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.1.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Language and Literacy Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Language and Literacy Studies
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lektüren / Interpretationen
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Critical Discourse Analysis • critical literacy • critical literacy approaches • Critical pedagogy • EAP • English for Academic Purposes • Functional grammar • neoliberal globalization discourses • Teacher Education
• ISBN-10: 1-78309-296-3 / 1783092963
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78309-296-3 / 9781783092963