Multilingual Instructor - What Foreign Language Teachers Say About Their Experience Why It

Claire Kramsch and Lihua Zhang use an ecological approach and a complexity thought model to examine the identities, experiences, and practices of foreign language teachers as native or non-native speakers, multilingual instructors, and professional educators. What is their sense of legitimacy? How do they bridge the historical and cultural gaps between them and their students? What stories do they share in the classroom? Which do they not share? How do they viewtheir ethical responsibility?

Summary

Claire Kramsch and Lihua Zhang use an ecological approach and a complexity thought model to examine the identities, experiences, and practices of foreign language teachers as native or non-native speakers, multilingual instructors, and professional educators. What is their sense of legitimacy? How do they bridge the historical and cultural gaps between them and their students? What stories do they share in the classroom? Which do they not share? How do they view their ethical responsibility?

Foreword

This books explores some of the key issues related to teaching languages in an era of increasing global mobility, institutional control, and educational uncertainty.

Additional text

"In this landmark publication, Kramsch and Zhang show us the challenges facing the multilingual instructor and the importance of understanding their experiences in order to improve the quality of teaching and learning as transformative practices. The ecological framework provides a very useful model for future studies, while the attention to the ethical role of the multilingual instructor is a timely reminder to us all".

Product details

• Authors: Claire Kramsch, Claire Zhang Kramsch, Lihua Zhang, Zhang Lihua
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9780194217378
• ISBN: 978-0-19-421737-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Oxford Applied Linguistics; Oxford Applied Linguistics
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; English, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Language teaching theory and methods, ELT examinations & certificates, ELT: teaching theory & methods