Bridging the Gap Between Education and Employment: English Language Instruction in Efl Contexts

ISBN-13: 9783034316811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 416 str.

Rahma Al-Mahrooqi;Christopher Denman

Opis

Graduate employability is often put forth as a marker of the success of a given institution or education system. High rates of school and university graduates in jobs offer a number of potential advantages for a country, including encouraging social mobility, increasing citizen participation and social stability, and making national economies more productive. The importance of achieving these and many other associated outcomes has recently received greater attention in many developing nations; this is especially the case in those countries where English assumes an important role as a mediator of educational and economic success. A number of authors claim that the gap between education, training and employment can be closed through the development of academic and employment skills such as motivation, time management, literacy and communication competence. This book explores the ways in which communication and literacy skills can be developed through English language instruction in EFL settings to help bring together the aims and outcomes of education and employment.

Spis treści

Contents: K. Thomas Baby: Teaching Effective Communication Strategies to EFL Learners - Somayeh Gerami/Jafar Dorri Kafrani: The Effect of Teaching Communicative Strategies on Students' Willingness to Communicate in an Iranian Context - Olga Andreevna Obdalova: Modeling Conditions for Students' Communication Skills Development by Means of a Modern Educational Environment - Samia Naqvi/Rahma Al-Mahrooqi: Fostering Oral and Written Communication Skills in EFL via the Use of Student-created Digi-videos - Ann McLellan Howard: Advice among the Flowers: A Learner's Speech Act - Siti Bahirah Saidi/Liyana Ahmad Afip/Bazilah Raihan Mat Shawal/Yohan Kurniawan/Julia Tan Yin Yin/Norhaini Mat Lajis: Investigating Vocabulary Teaching Modules for Preschoolers: The First Phase of a Design Experiment - Jaishree Umale: The Effect of the First Language on the Pronunciation of Lower Intermediate Omani Students - Norhaini Hj Mat Lajis: Rhyming and Singing: Tongue Training Toward Second Language Automaticity - Chandrika Balasubamanian/Rahma Al-Mahrooqi: Reducing Anxiety through Enhancing Omani EFL Learners' Emotional Intelligence - Asfia Khan/Rahma Al-Mahrooqi: EFL Learners' Anxieties: Tertiary-level Strategies among Omanis - Sindhu Harish: Communication, Identity and Workplaces in English Language Teaching in the Tertiary System in Oman - Abdelkader Chaou: Constraints on Intercultural and Pragmatic Competence Development in EFL Classroom Contexts - Tarek Hermessi: Culture, Globalization and L2 Education - Aleksandra V. Soboleva: Cognitive Styles in Intercultural Competence Development when Teaching English to Non-Linguistic Students - Rahma Al-Mahrooqi/Christopher Denman: Intercultural Communication and the Negotiation of Local and Foreign Cultures in the EFL Literature Classroom - Sandhya Rao Mehta/Rahma Al-Mahrooqi: Learning from the Margins: Teaching Language, Culture and Communication through World Literature in the EFL Classroom - Rahma Al-Mahrooqi/Khalsa Al-Aghbari: Taking Charge: Improving EFL Students' Language Proficiency, Academic Skills and Professional Preparation via Student-led Activities - Rahma Al-Mahrooqi/Christopher Denman: Employability, English Proficiency and Communicative Ability in the Arabian Gulf.

O autorze

Rahma Al-Mahrooqi, PhD, is an Associate Professor of English at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Oman, where she also directs the Humanities Research Centre. Among her many positions, she has coordinated tertiary English courses and an ESP program for SQU's College of Science and, for almost four years, she was SQU's Language Centre Director. Dr. Al-Mahrooqi has published widely on English language teaching and learning in Oman with major focus areas in teaching and reading, literature, and English communication skills.
Christopher Denman, DEd, is a researcher at Sultan Qaboos University's Humanities Research Centre. He has a bachelor's degree in psychology in addition to a MEd and a EdD which focused on Arab Muslim identity and English language learning and teaching. He has previously taught at primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in South Korea, Japan, and Australia. His research interests include language and identity and education policy.