English - A Changing Medium for Education

by Leung, Constant; Street, Brian V.,

• ISBN13: 9781847697707
• ISBN10: 1847697704
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-25
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

The widespread use of English as an International Language (EIL) in different parts of the world for administrative, business, educational and social purposes has given rise to questions such as what counts as ?Standard English? and ?literacy?. This edited volume is designed to provide a scholarly and research-based discussion on how English in education can be (re)conceptualized and understood in light of the dynamic and changing nature of English.

Author Biography

Constant Leung is Professor of Educational Linguistics in the Centre for Language Discourse and Communication, Department of Education and Professional Studies at King¿s College London. He also serves as Deputy Head of Department. His research interests include additional/second language curriculum, language assessment, language education in ethnically and linguistically diverse societies, language policy, and teacher professional development. He is Associate Editor for Language Assessment Quarterly and Editor of Research Issues for TESOL Quarterly. Brian Street is Emeritus Professor of Language in Education at King¿s College, London University and Visiting Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. He has a commitment to linking ethnographic-style research on the cultural dimension of language and literacy with contemporary practice in education and in development. Over the past 25 years he has undertaken anthropological field research and been consultant to projects in these fields in countries of both the North and South (e.g. Nepal, S. Africa, India, USA, UK). He has published 18 books and 120 scholarly papers.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 – Constant Leung & Brian Street: Introduction: English in the Curriculum – Norms and Practices

Chapter 2 - Mastin Prinsloo: What Counts as English?

Chapter 3 - Ilana Snyder and Denise Beale: The Rise and Rise of English: The Politics of Bilingual Education in Australia's Remote Indigenous Schools

Chapter 4 - Bruce Horner & Min Lu: (Re)Writing English: Putting English in Translation

Chapter 5 - Angel Lin: Multilingual and Multimodal Resources in Genre-based Pedagogical Approaches to L2 English Content Classrooms

Chapter 6 - Heather Lotherington & Natalia Sinitskaya Ronda: Multimodal Literacies and Assessment: Uncharted Challenges in the English Classroom

Chapter 7 - Martin Dewey: Beyond Labels and Categories in English Language Teaching: Critical Reflections on Popular Conceptualizations

Brian Street & Constant Leung: Concluding Remarks