B Kumaravadivelu
Biographic Data
| ID | 187020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Kumaravadivelu |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumaravadivelu |
| SIGNATURE | KUMARAVADIVELU B |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Decolonial Option in English Teaching
In this reflective article that straddles the personal and the professional, the author shares his critical thoughts on the impact of the steady stream of discourse on the native speaker/nonnative speaker ( NS / NNS ) inequity in the field of TESOL . His contention is that more than a quarter century of the discoursal output has not in any significant way altered the ground reality of NNS subordination. Therefore, he further contends, it is legit…
Language Teacher Education for a Global Society
The field of second/foreign language teacher education is calling out for a coherent and comprehensive framework for teacher preparation in these times of accelerating economic, cultural, and educational globalization. Responding to this call, this book introduces a state-of-the-art model for developing prospective and practicing teachers into strategic thinkers, exploratory researchers, and transformative teachers. The model includes five module…
Understanding Language Teaching
This book traces the historical development of major language teaching methods in terms of theoretical principles and classroom procedures, and provides a critical evaluation of each. Drawing from seminal, foundational texts and from critical commentaries made by various scholars, Kumaravadivelu examines the profession's current transition from method to postmethod and, in the process, elucidates the relationship between theory, research, and pra…
Learner Perception of Learning Tasks
In the context of task-based language teaching, a challenge facing the language teaching profession is to determine how learners perceive and treat the formal and functional properties of language learning tasks. The preliminary study reported here presents the interplay between teacher objectives, task input, peer interaction and learner perception of transactional tasks. The study shows that the formal, functional and interactional dimensions o…
Tesol Methods
This article traces the major trends in TESOL methods in the past 15 years. It focuses on the TESOL profession's evolving perspectives on language teaching methods in terms of three perceptible shifts: (a) from communicative language teaching to task-based language teaching, (b) from method-based pedagogy to postmethod pedagogy, and (c) from systemic discovery to critical discourse. It is evident that during this transitional period, the professi…
Response 1
Problematizing Cultural Stereotypes in Tesol
Mitchell, J. (1994). Sex kills. On Turbulent Indigo [CD]. Los Angeles, CA: Reprise Records/Crazy Crow Music. Morgan, D. (2003, August 10). A debate over U.S. 'empire' builds in unexpected circles [Electronic version]. Washington Post, p. A3. Retrieved October 20, 2003, from http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/081203G.shtml Murphy, B. (2003, April 5). Neoconservative clout seen in U.S. Iraq policy. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved October 20, 200…
A Postmethod Perspective on English Language Teaching
Toward a Postmethod Pedagogy
As a consequence of repeatedly articulated dissatisfaction with the limitations of the concept of method and the transmission model of teacher education, the L2 profession is faced with an imperative need to construct a postmethod pedagogy. In this article, I conceptualize the parameters of a postmethod pedagogy, offer suggestions for implementing it, and then raise questions and concerns that might come up in implementing it. Visualizing a three…
Critical Classroom Discourse Analysis
My primary purpose in this article is to conceptualize a framework for conducting critical classroom discourse analysis (CCDA). I begin with a critique of the scope and method of current models of classroom interaction analysis and classroom discourse analysis, arguing that they offer only a limited and limiting perspective on classroom discourse. I then contend that the concepts of discourse enunciated in Foucauldian poststructuralism and Saidia…
"Comments on B. Kumaravadivelu's "The Postmethod Condition
B. Kumaravadivelu, Comments on B. Kumaravadivelu's "The Postmethod Condition: (E)merging Strategies for Second/Foreign Language Teaching": The Author Responds, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring, 1995), pp. 177-180
The Postmethod Condition
Recent explorations in L2 pedagogy signal a shift away from the conventional concept of method toward a "postmethod condition" that can potentially refigure the relationship between theorizers and teachers by empowering teachers with knowledge, skill, and autonomy. So empowered, teachers could devise for themselves a systematic, coherent, and relevant alternative to method, one informed by principled pragmatism. The postmethod condition can also …
Language Development
The Postmethod Condition
Recent explorations in L2 pedagogy signal a shift away from the conventional concept of method toward a "postmethod condition" that can potentially refigure the relationship between theorizers and teachers by empowering teachers with knowledge, skill, and autonomy. So empowered, teachers could devise for themselves a systematic, coherent, and relevant alternative to method, one informed by principled pragmatism. The postmethod condition can also …
The Decolonial Option in English Teaching
In this reflective article that straddles the personal and the professional, the author shares his critical thoughts on the impact of the steady stream of discourse on the native speaker/nonnative speaker ( NS / NNS ) inequity in the field of TESOL . His contention is that more than a quarter century of the discoursal output has not in any significant way altered the ground reality of NNS subordination. Therefore, he further contends, it is legit…
Toward a Postmethod Pedagogy
As a consequence of repeatedly articulated dissatisfaction with the limitations of the concept of method and the transmission model of teacher education, the L2 profession is faced with an imperative need to construct a postmethod pedagogy. In this article, I conceptualize the parameters of a postmethod pedagogy, offer suggestions for implementing it, and then raise questions and concerns that might come up in implementing it. Visualizing a three…
Tesol Methods
This article traces the major trends in TESOL methods in the past 15 years. It focuses on the TESOL profession's evolving perspectives on language teaching methods in terms of three perceptible shifts: (a) from communicative language teaching to task-based language teaching, (b) from method-based pedagogy to postmethod pedagogy, and (c) from systemic discovery to critical discourse. It is evident that during this transitional period, the professi…
A Postmethod Perspective on English Language Teaching
Problematizing Cultural Stereotypes in Tesol
Mitchell, J. (1994). Sex kills. On Turbulent Indigo [CD]. Los Angeles, CA: Reprise Records/Crazy Crow Music. Morgan, D. (2003, August 10). A debate over U.S. 'empire' builds in unexpected circles [Electronic version]. Washington Post, p. A3. Retrieved October 20, 2003, from http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/081203G.shtml Murphy, B. (2003, April 5). Neoconservative clout seen in U.S. Iraq policy. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved October 20, 200…
Critical Classroom Discourse Analysis
My primary purpose in this article is to conceptualize a framework for conducting critical classroom discourse analysis (CCDA). I begin with a critique of the scope and method of current models of classroom interaction analysis and classroom discourse analysis, arguing that they offer only a limited and limiting perspective on classroom discourse. I then contend that the concepts of discourse enunciated in Foucauldian poststructuralism and Saidia…
Language Development
The Postmethod Condition
Recent explorations in L2 pedagogy signal a shift away from the conventional concept of method toward a "postmethod condition" that can potentially refigure the relationship between theorizers and teachers by empowering teachers with knowledge, skill, and autonomy. So empowered, teachers could devise for themselves a systematic, coherent, and relevant alternative to method, one informed by principled pragmatism. The postmethod condition can also …
"Comments on B. Kumaravadivelu's "The Postmethod Condition
B. Kumaravadivelu, Comments on B. Kumaravadivelu's "The Postmethod Condition: (E)merging Strategies for Second/Foreign Language Teaching": The Author Responds, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring, 1995), pp. 177-180
Critical Classroom Discourse Analysis
My primary purpose in this article is to conceptualize a framework for conducting critical classroom discourse analysis (CCDA). I begin with a critique of the scope and method of current models of classroom interaction analysis and classroom discourse analysis, arguing that they offer only a limited and limiting perspective on classroom discourse. I then contend that the concepts of discourse enunciated in Foucauldian poststructuralism and Saidia…
Toward a Postmethod Pedagogy
As a consequence of repeatedly articulated dissatisfaction with the limitations of the concept of method and the transmission model of teacher education, the L2 profession is faced with an imperative need to construct a postmethod pedagogy. In this article, I conceptualize the parameters of a postmethod pedagogy, offer suggestions for implementing it, and then raise questions and concerns that might come up in implementing it. Visualizing a three…
Response 1
Problematizing Cultural Stereotypes in Tesol
Mitchell, J. (1994). Sex kills. On Turbulent Indigo [CD]. Los Angeles, CA: Reprise Records/Crazy Crow Music. Morgan, D. (2003, August 10). A debate over U.S. 'empire' builds in unexpected circles [Electronic version]. Washington Post, p. A3. Retrieved October 20, 2003, from http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/081203G.shtml Murphy, B. (2003, April 5). Neoconservative clout seen in U.S. Iraq policy. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved October 20, 200…
A Postmethod Perspective on English Language Teaching
Understanding Language Teaching
This book traces the historical development of major language teaching methods in terms of theoretical principles and classroom procedures, and provides a critical evaluation of each. Drawing from seminal, foundational texts and from critical commentaries made by various scholars, Kumaravadivelu examines the profession's current transition from method to postmethod and, in the process, elucidates the relationship between theory, research, and pra…
Learner Perception of Learning Tasks
In the context of task-based language teaching, a challenge facing the language teaching profession is to determine how learners perceive and treat the formal and functional properties of language learning tasks. The preliminary study reported here presents the interplay between teacher objectives, task input, peer interaction and learner perception of transactional tasks. The study shows that the formal, functional and interactional dimensions o…
Tesol Methods
This article traces the major trends in TESOL methods in the past 15 years. It focuses on the TESOL profession's evolving perspectives on language teaching methods in terms of three perceptible shifts: (a) from communicative language teaching to task-based language teaching, (b) from method-based pedagogy to postmethod pedagogy, and (c) from systemic discovery to critical discourse. It is evident that during this transitional period, the professi…
Language Teacher Education for a Global Society
The field of second/foreign language teacher education is calling out for a coherent and comprehensive framework for teacher preparation in these times of accelerating economic, cultural, and educational globalization. Responding to this call, this book introduces a state-of-the-art model for developing prospective and practicing teachers into strategic thinkers, exploratory researchers, and transformative teachers. The model includes five module…
The Decolonial Option in English Teaching
In this reflective article that straddles the personal and the professional, the author shares his critical thoughts on the impact of the steady stream of discourse on the native speaker/nonnative speaker ( NS / NNS ) inequity in the field of TESOL . His contention is that more than a quarter century of the discoursal output has not in any significant way altered the ground reality of NNS subordination. Therefore, he further contends, it is legit…
EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (11 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (10 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works)