Overview
- Introduces grounded and longitudinal perspectives of practicing teachers, students, and administrators grappling with new classroom roles, teaching practices, and desires for English use and identities
- Examines the enactment of top-down English language policies of internationalization with renewed emphasis on learning and using English in China
- Offers local and global perspectives on ELT in China through two main organizing themes: teacher interpretations and appropriations of west-based teaching roles and methods, and English language learner responses to internationalization reforms
Part of the book series: Language and Globalization (LAGL)
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“I have been longing to see a book like this in print. It neatly captures and complicates troubling yet intersecting dichotomies prevalent in English, ELT, internationalization, globalization, and the idea of China as a rising power. McPherron’s autoethnography sophisticatedly shapes and is shaped by the many tensions and fascinating self-challenging moments that are both revealing and revealed throughout his journey as a researcher and a teacher. A very fine accomplishment!” (Phan Le Ha, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)
“This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the complex intersection of globalizing surges, fluid language policies and dynamic policy enactments around ELT in contemporary China. Extremely grounded in its orientation and most lucidly written, McPherron pays close attention to the kinds of details that make up our heterogeneous world, not to offer a coherent narrative as much as alert us to the ever-splintering and evolving processes we term 'globalization'.” (Vai Ramanathan, Professor, University of California, Davis, USA)
“This is a book containing the author's journey of Cultures of Learning and Teaching, using ten years' case study research and experience in English language teaching in China. For anyone considering a globalised educational context and tensions with local perspectives, this is insightful reading with Chinese participants' perspectives and first-hand stories to ponder and reflect upon.” (Martin Cortazzi, Visiting Professor, University of Warwick, UK and Lixian Jin, Professor, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China)
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Book Title: Internationalizing Teaching, Localizing Learning
Book Subtitle: An Examination of English Language Teaching Reforms and English Use in China
Authors: Paul McPherron
Series Title: Language and Globalization
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51954-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51953-5Published: 06 January 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51954-2Published: 27 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-7506
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7514
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 239
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Language and Literature, International and Comparative Education, Language Education, Language Teaching, Sociolinguistics