Efl Pedagogy as Cultural Discourse: Textbooks, Practice, and Policy for Arabs and Jews in Israel

ISBN-13: 9781138308800 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 186 str.

Muzna Awayed-Bishara

Opis

This book offers insight into the role of English as a foreign language (EFL) discourse in shaping the ideological positions of those involved in teaching English in Israel to both the Jewish majority and the Palestinian minority. It promotes an ‘ecological discourse‘ to render EFL teaching as a possible arena for affecting social change.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Why English?  2. EFL Discourse: Beyond Language Education  3. EFL Textbooks as Ideological Vehicles  4. Storied Selves: Analysis of EFL Learners’ Cultural Representations  5. EFL Policy Discourse: Global and Local Perspectives  6. EFL as a Cultural Discourse: Towards a Transformative EFL Pedagogy  7. Closing Remarks: EFL as a Cultural Discourse of Action

O autorze

Muzna Awayed-Bishara received her doctorate from the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Haifa. She is currently a postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Multiculturalism and Diversity at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a tenured lecturer in the English Department at the Academic Arab College for Education in Haifa. Dr Awayed-Bishara is also currently a visiting scholar at the Paulo Freire Institute at the University of California in Los Angeles.