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This book critically review the current circumstances and examine the status of English education through the perspectives and experiences of researchers and teachers in Asia. It covers a variety of significant current issues, expectations, and challenges in teaching and learning English in different Asian countries.
List of contents
Notes on contributors
Preface
Introduction
- Learning Spaces, Learning Management, and Learning Anchors in ELT Classroom in the Philippines: Contexts and Directions (Philip Jay N. Alcoberes and Rosarito T. Suatengco )
- Teaching English in Contemporary Chinese Contexts (Haixiao Wang, Hua Chen and Wenyu Wang)
- The challenges and changes of the Russian EFL classroom (Natalya Maximova)
- In search of order for teaching and learning English in the Malaysian classroom (Cynthia Yolanda Doss and Ramesh Nair)
- The Asian EFL classroom: issues, challenges and future expectations applied critical thinking and EFL pedagogy in Vietnam (DýõngThị Hoàng Oanh and Nguyễn Xuân Đạt)
- The flipped classroom as a paradigm shift for teaching EFL in Korea (Heyoung Kim)
- Indonesian EFL teachers’ responses to in the current and future challenges (Nenden Sri Lengkanawati)
- Promoting plurilingualism throughout language classrooms in East Asia: Implications from EFL research in Japan (Shien Sakai)
- English education in partnership with third parties: A Case of equity in Hong Kong (Tae-hee Choi)
- Building Today for Tomorrow: Teachers and Students in the Singapore English Language Classroom (Donna Lim, Kiren Kaur and Ruth Y. L. Wong)
Index
About the author
Soo-Ok Kweon is a Professor at Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea. She is the editor-in-chief of the Asia TEFL book series.
Bernard Spolsky is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Summary
This book critically review the current circumstances and examine the status of English education through the perspectives and experiences of researchers and teachers in Asia. It covers a variety of significant current issues, expectations, and challenges in teaching and learning English in different Asian countries.
