English Teaching and Evangelical Mission The Case of Lighthouse School

Debates about the place of mission work in English Language Teaching continue to rage, and yet full-length studies of what really happens at the intersection of ELT and evangelical Christianity are rare. In this book, Johnston conducts a detailed ethnography of an evangelical language school in Poland, looking at its Bible-based curriculum, and analyzing interaction in classes for adults. He also explores the idea of 'relationship' in the context of the school and its mission activity, and more broadly the cultural encounter between North American evangelicalism and Polish Catholicism. The book comprises an in-depth examination of a key issue facing TEFL in the 21st century, and will be of interest to all practitioners and scholars in the field, whatever their position on this topic.

About the author

Bill Johnston is Henry Remak Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, USA. He is the author of Values in English Language Teaching (2003, Lawrence Erlbaum).

Summary

This book offers a critical examination of the use of English Language Teaching as a platform for evangelical Christian mission work. It presents an in-depth study of a language school in Poland in which Bible-based curriculum was employed. The book looks in detail at a key question faced by TEFL in the 21st century.

Product details

• Authors: Bill Johnston
• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.03.2017
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Education and learning > Teaching preparation
• EAN: 9781783097074
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-707-4
• Pages: 174
• Dimensions (packing): 15 x 21.3 x 2 cm
• Weight (packing): 408 g
• Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy > 21; Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy > 21
• Subjects: Christentum, Englisch, Fremdsprachendidaktik: Theorie und Methoden, Fachspezifischer Unterricht, EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / General, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Missions, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism, Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books, EDUCATION / Bilingual Education, Für ELT / ESL-Lernen, Kurse, Prüfungen und Zertifikate, LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language