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Critical Literacy Approach to English as a Foreign Language

From Theory to Practice

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Authors:
  1. Nizar Kamal Ibrahim

    1. Faculty of Education, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon

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  • Includes examples of how critical literacy can be applied to the regular school curriculum
  • Provides ideas on how to handle various challenges in critical literacy classes
  • Highlights how theory and practice are interrelated

Part of the book series: English Language Education (ELED, volume 29)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. The Critical Approach to Language Teaching: Theoretical Framing and Practical Implications

    • Nizar Kamal Ibrahim
    Pages 1-14

  3. Critical Text Use: Challenges to the Current Instruction in Reading and Listening

    • Nizar Kamal Ibrahim
    Pages 15-48

  4. CALT in EFL Text Production: Challenges to the Dominant Approaches

    • Nizar Kamal Ibrahim
    Pages 49-68

  5. Critical Literacy in a Foreign Language: Deeper Insights into Theory

    • Nizar Kamal Ibrahim
    Pages 69-86

  6. Foreign Language Learning and Critical Literacy: Patterns and the Two Cases of Issam and Hameed

    • Nizar Kamal Ibrahim
    Pages 87-115

  7. The Teachers’ Worries: Conclusions and Recommendations

    • Nizar Kamal Ibrahim
    Pages 117-142

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 143-161
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About this book

This book discusses how to approach critical literacy in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts. It responds to the concerns of educators who get enthusiastic about teaching critical literacy, but become perplexed when they start reading about its theories. This causes some to avoid it altogether and leads others to argue for practicing it without theory. The book argues that both positions should be reconsidered and capitalizes on the notion of praxis, a notion introduced by Freire to explicate the various subtle connections between theory and practice.  

The book instills the theoretical assumptions of critical literacy with as little jargon as possible, with many practical illustrations. It will be of interest to graduate and undergraduate students, language teachers, program and material developers, researchers, and educational policy makers.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Education, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon

    Nizar Kamal Ibrahim

About the author

Professor Ibrahim holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, and is currently a Doctor of TEFL at the Lebanese University, Faculty of Education. He has more than 8 publications and he has received, among other things, two research grants from Lebanese University and a Herbert Karter award from the University of Arizona. Being a visually disabled person and active in the Lebanese disability movement, he was the president of the Youth Association of the Blind (YAB) in 2017-Feb. 2022, Lebanon. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Critical Literacy Approach to English as a Foreign Language

  • Book Subtitle: From Theory to Practice

  • Authors: Nizar Kamal Ibrahim

  • Series Title: English Language Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04154-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04153-2Published: 14 June 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04156-3Published: 15 June 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04154-9Published: 13 June 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2213-6967

  • Series E-ISSN: 2213-6975

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 161

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Language Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Literacy

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