ERIC Number: EJ1090397
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Sep
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"Doing School": Cross Cultural Encounters
Edwards, Viv
TESOL in Context, v25 n1 p4-15 Sep 2015
In this paper, a series of vignettes is used to explore important current challenges in TESOL. These vignettes are drawn from many different settings, including Bengali-, Pahari- and Chinese-speaking children in UK primary schools, speakers of Aboriginal English in Australia and Chinese teachers of English on courses in Higher Education. A number of themes run through these different contexts: What counts as literacy and learning? What are the expectations of the students and, in the case of school children, their parents? How do these differ from those of their teachers? What power issues shape these expectations? In answering these questions, emphasis will be placed on the dangers of "othering" and the importance of syncretic approaches that recognize and build on student experience.
Descriptors: Vignettes, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Teachers, Asians, Indigenous Populations, Language Variation, Literacy, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Higher Education, Chinese, Indo European Languages, Native Speakers, Teaching Methods, Cultural Context, College Faculty, Expectation, Parent Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Power Structure, Cross Cultural Studies, Multilingualism, World Views, Siblings, Role
Australian Council of TESOL Associations. P.O. Box 2019, Smithfield, New South Wales 2164, Australia. e-mail: actaexec@yahoo.com.au; Web site: http://www.tesol.org.au/Publications/TESOL-in-Context
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia; China; United Kingdom
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