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Teaching English in East Asia

A Teacher’s Guide to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Learners

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Clay H. Williams

    1. Akita International University, Akita, Japan

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  • Presents beginning language teaching methodology to aspiring practitioners in East Asia
  • Explains how to adapt Western-developed language teaching practices and methods to better accommodate the realities of East Asian classrooms and learners
  • Explores the educational settings, learning styles, and the history of Western pedagogical methodology implementation in East Asia
  • Details the prevailing educational psychology and learning/teaching practices in East Asia
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Education (SPTE)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Foreign English Teacher in East Asia

    • Clay H. Williams
    Pages 1-23

  3. East Asian Educational Settings

    • Clay H. Williams
    Pages 25-46

  4. East Asian Learners

    • Clay H. Williams
    Pages 47-71

  5. Teachers in East Asia

    • Clay H. Williams
    Pages 73-94

  6. Teaching Speaking/Listening in the East Asian Classroom

    • Clay H. Williams
    Pages 95-119

  7. Reading English in the East Asian Classroom

    • Clay H. Williams
    Pages 121-146

  8. Writing English in the East Asian Classroom

    • Clay H. Williams
    Pages 147-166

  9. English Outside of the Classroom

    • Clay H. Williams
    Pages 167-184
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About this book

This book investigates the current EFL market in East Asia, focusing on K-12, university, and cram school English education in Japan, China, and Korea. It explores prevailing educational practices by both Asian learners and teachers of English, contrasting them with Western practices, and illuminating why Western pedagogical methods have often encountered tremendous resistance from teachers, administrators, parents, and students in the East Asian classroom context. After establishing this cultural contrast of pedagogical norms, the book presents a series of practical means for adapting Western teaching practices and philosophies to better suit the learning styles of East Asian students and the cultural context and practical realities of the East Asian classroom, offering both Western teachers working in East Asia and native East Asian teachers realistic plans for turning theory into successful practice. These plans are divided by subsections, focusing on the linguistic subskills beingtaught: listening/speaking, reading, and writing. Each section includes two contrasting lesson plans to demonstrate how the educational theories and practices promoted by the author can often be implemented by making relatively simple changes to existing practices that incorporate a fuller understanding of how to actively assist students in developing new learning styles and behaviors. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Akita International University, Akita, Japan

    Clay H. Williams

About the author

Clay H. Williams is an associate professor in the graduate-level English Language Teaching Practices department of Akita International University (in northern Japan), where he teaches courses on linguistics, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, and research methods. His primary research interests include cross-script effects on L2 literacy development with special emphasis on Chinese-English and Japanese-English literacy learning skills, lexical access in non-alphabetic script reading, and adapting L2 teaching methodologies to East Asian classroom contexts. He received a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) from the University of Arizona. Over the course of his career, he has taught a wide range of students, from two-year-olds to seventy-year-olds, and practically everything in between, in five countries and three continents.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Teaching English in East Asia

  • Book Subtitle: A Teacher’s Guide to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Learners

  • Authors: Clay H. Williams

  • Series Title: Springer Texts in Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3807-5

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-3805-1Published: 31 March 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-3807-5Published: 23 March 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2366-7672

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-7680

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 184

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Language Education

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