Teaching and Learning English in East Asian Universities

Global Visions and Local Practices
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4438-6141-0
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 470 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 212 mm, Gewicht: 776 g

The 25 chapters contained in this book were all written by scholars working in the field of applied linguistics and English language teaching in various East Asian contexts. East Asia is large and diverse in terms of socio-economic, linguistic, and ethnic parameters. Statistics alone cannot give a clear understanding of what goes on in rural and urban universities and what challenges English language teachers and learners face in those contexts. To understand this wide gamut of issues in English language teaching in East Asia is thus a very large undertaking.

The book addresses some of these issues, arranging its 25 chapters into five sections: namely, Assessing Language Performance; Teaching English Writing; Learner Autonomy; Corpus and Discourse Research; and Learning English in East Asian Contexts. Many of the chapters in this volume concern familiar topics such as linking assessment to teaching, learning and curriculum; conducting assessment validation research; examining meta-cognitive strategies; investigating teaching and learning English for academic purposes; and profiling prevailing word lists for language learners. Other chapters are on novel or lesser known topics such as non-verbal delivery in speaking assessment; the use of visualization as a reading strategy; learner strategies in a Facebook corpus; effects of discourse signaling cues and rate of speech; and an ontogenetic analysis of college English textbooks. Collectively, these chapters showcase English language learning, teaching, and assessing in a range of contexts using a variety of methods and techniques to deal with issues relevant to East Asian teachers, learners and researchers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Qian, David D.

Li, Lan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Professor David D. Qian is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a Co-President of the Asian Association for Language Assessment. He has a PhD in Second Language Education from OISE, University of Toronto and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Educational Testing Service, USA. Professor Qian publishes extensively in the areas of language testing, teacher-based assessment, corpus linguistics, discourse and communication in professional and academic contexts, and ESL/EFL vocabulary learning and measurement. He has directed over 20 research projects and served on the editorial boards of several top-ranking international peer-refereed journals.

Dr Lan Li is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, UK, with MPhil and PhD degrees in Applied Linguistics from the University of Exeter. She currently works as an Associate Professor at the Department of English, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and has been teaching at university level for over 20 years. She has been engaged in a number of research projects on language corpora, lexicology and professional communication.