Innovating EFL Teaching in Asia

326 Pages·2012·1.351 MB·English

by  Theron Muller, Steven Herder, John Adamson, Philip Shigeo Brown

Innovating EFL Teaching in Asia
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Innovating EFL Teaching
in Asia
Edited By
Theron Muller
University of Toyama, Japan
Steven Herder
Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts, Kyoto, Japan
John Adamson
University of Niigata Prefecture, Japan
and
Philip Shigeo Brown
Konan Women’s University, Japan
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Selection and editorial matter © Theron Muller, Steven Herder, John Adamson,
Philip Shigeo Brown 2012
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Innovating EFL teaching in Asia / edited by Theron Muller ... [et al.].
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1. Language and languages—Study and teaching. 2. Second language
acquisition. I. Muller, Theron, 1977–
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For all the teachers and students who have touched our
lives and made the process of educating and being
educated so fulfilling.
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Contents
Tables and figures x
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xv
About the Contributors xvi
List of abbreviations xxiii
Introduction: Mapping our Path to, and through, Innovating
EFL Teaching in Asia 1
Theron Muller
Part A Defining the Asian EFL Context
Introduction to Part A 6
Theron Muller and Philip Shigeo Brown
1 Teaching the New English Curriculum: An Ethnographic
Study in a Chinese High School 9
Xi Fang
2 Global Cultures and Identities: Refocusing the Aims
of ELT in Asia through Intercultural Awareness 23
Will Baker
3 Training the Pesantren: Intercultural Materials for
Islamic Boarding Schools in Indonesia 35
Gillian Palmer and Itje Chodidjah
4 Language Learning Styles and Beliefs of EFL University
Students in Korea: Are They Really Stereotypical? 49
Andrew Finch
Part B Empowering Asian Voices
Introduction to Part B 62
John Adamson
5 Learner Autonomy in Asia: How Asian Teachers and
Students See Themselves 66
Fumiko Murase
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viii Contents
6 How Thai National Culture Can Be Used to Explain
Students’ Behavior 82
Chutigarn Raktham
7 Co-constructing Teacher Beliefs about Qualifications:
Insights from Interviews in the Japanese Context 95
John Adamson
8 ‘Reconceptualizing’ Self as a Teacher in a Malaysian
Context 110
Rosemary Erlam and Susan Gray
Part C Innovating Teaching Methodology in Asia
Introduction to Part C 124
Theron Muller
9 Promoting Strategy Teaching as an Innovative Practice
in the Asian EFL Oral Classroom 127
Wendy Y. K. Lam
10 Innovating a Vocabulary Learning Strategies Program 135
Philip Shigeo Brown
11 Classroom Discourse Analysis of Student Use of
Language Scaffolding During Tasks 145
Theron Muller and Mark de Boer
12 Innovating EFL Teaching of Reading: An Activity
Theory Perspective on Chinese Teachers’ Readiness
to Adapt to Educational Reform 162
Hongzhi Yang and Eva Bernat
Part D Teaching Young Learners in Asia
Introduction to Part D 178
Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto
13 Exploring Teachers’ Implementation of the Recent
Curriculum Innovation in ELT in Turkish
Primary Education 181
Yasemin Kırkgöz
14 Affective Factors Contributing to Intrinsic Motivation
for Learning English among Elementary School
Students in Japan 196
Junko Matsuzaki Carreira
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Contents ix
15 Adapting English Picture Books to an EFL Context:
A Study of Collaboration between Elementary School
Teachers and TEFL Practitioners in Rural Japan 204
James M. Hall, Tomoko Yamazaki, Chohei Takahashi,
and Takeru Ishigame
16 “Let’s Speak English”: Bridging the Linguistic Divide
in Tamil Nadu 217
Kirsten A. Anderson and Parvathy P. Narayanan
Part E Innovating Teaching Writing in Asia
Introduction to Part E 230
Steven Herder
17 Extensive Writing: A Fluency-first Approach to
EFL Writing 232
Steven Herder and Peter Clements
18 Who Takes the Floor? Peer Feedback or Teacher
Feedback: An Investigation of Chinese University
English Learners’ Use and Understanding of Peer
and Teacher Feedback on Writing 245
Huahui Zhao
19 Assessing EFL Writing: Meaningful Innovations
through SFL 253
Toshio Hisaoka
20 Epilogue: Description and Evaluation of the Process of
Creating this Book 267
Theron Muller and John Adamson
References 280
Index 298
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