From Language Skills to Literacy: Broadening the Scope of English Language Education Through Media Literacy

ISBN-13: 9780415788885 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 180 str.

Csilla Weninger

Opis

Using Singapore English language teaching as a case study, this book illustrates how media literacy principles were vernacularized to design English classroom pedagogies that stretched the bounds of what is acceptable and possible in the local context.

O autorze

Csilla Weninger is associate professor in the department of English Language and Literature at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. Her research examines the imprint and impact of political and institutional ideologies on the conduct of schooling, including its material dimensions such as textbooks as well as everyday pedagogies. Her publications have appeared, among others, in Teaching and Teacher Education, Discourse, TESOL Quarterly, Linguistics and Education, and ELT Journal.