Critical Reflection and the Foreign Language Classroom
A volume in the series: Contemporary Language Education. Series Editor: Terry Osborn, South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee
Published 2005
This book introduces pre-service and in-service foreign language teachers to the basic concepts of critical educational study as applied to the sociological position occupied by foreign language education in the United States. Although contemporary foreign language teachers typically know about second language acquisition and instructional methodology, they are not prepared to understand issues of power in relation to, for example, language variety, language status, and education. The author addresses issues such as the supposed "failure" of foreign language education, the educational filter role played by language classes, the concept of foreignness as seen in national standards, language curricula and textbooks, and the implications of these issues in terms of power relationships and cultural mediation both in and out of the classroom. The reader is encouraged to analyze the forms of cultural struggle which can be found within the foreign language classrooms of the United States including the likely impact those struggles have on members of the dominant and subordinate cultures. Teachers are led through the development of skills in critical reflection and pedagogical application geared to social justice.
MORE TITLES IN THIS SERIES
Critical Questions, Critical Perspectives: Language and the Second Language Educator
Early Language Learning: A Model for Success
Identity and Second Language Learning: Culture, Inquiry, and Dialogic Activity in Educational Contexts
Teaching Language and Content to Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students: Principles, Ideas, and Naterials
Teaching Writing Genres Across the Curriculum: Strategies for Middle School Teachers
Spirituality, Social Justice,and Language Learning
Language Matters: Reflections on Educational Linguistics
World Language Teacher Education: Transitions and Challenges in the 21st Century
Critical Qualitative Research in Second Language Studies: Agency and Advocacy
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