Chun Power and Meaning Making in an EAP Classroom

Engaging with the Everyday
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78309-296-3
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 19, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Critical Language and Literacy Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chun, Christian W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Chun, Christian W.
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.