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English Language Pedagogies for a Northeast Asian Context: Developing and Contextually Framing the Transition Theory
Author(s): Michael Hadzantonis (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 19 Dec. 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 392 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415806909
- ISBN-13: 9780415806909
Book Description
This book investigates, from a sociocultural, linguistic, and pedagogical perspective, the conceptual and pragmatic frameworks that characterize secondary language learning in a Northeast Asian context. Hadzantonis contextualizes these salient domains through an engagement with social and cultural themes such as the familial, political, as well as cultural commodities and socioeducational structures. In this way, the text employs tools such as transnational theory and performativity and develops a model that contributes to the resolution of one of the greatest economic issues of the time, that of ineffective secondary language learning.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This new transition model of language pedagogy impresses upon the reader the necessity of new perspectives in language education, as it accounts for culturally specific learning styles and learner social, political and cultural identities that previous work has not. It presents EFL/expanding circle learners as having agency through uniquely cultured learning styles, styles that educational stakeholders must accommodate when promulgating language pedagogies.” – Katherine Chen, University of Hong Kong
About the Author
Michael Hadzantonis develops discourses in sociology, social anthropology, and related linguistics, and has worked in global academic contexts for approximately two decades.
