Losing Strangeness
Using Culture to Mediate ESL Teaching
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12112380 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Rowsell (0000-0002-9062-8859, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author), Vannina Sztainbok (University of Toronto), Judy Blaney (York University) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 140-154 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Culture and Curriculum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0790-8318 • E-ISSN: 1747-7573 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2167/lcc331.0 |
| OpenAlex | W2018720931 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
This paper explores ways of using culture and cultural practices as an informing principle in ESL teaching. To research culture and ESL teaching, we conducted focus groups with teachers in an urban ethnically diverse school in Toronto, Canada and their student teachers during their month-long practica in the school as a part of a Bachelor of Education programme. As instructors in the teacher education programme, we set out to find ways of infusing culture and cultural awareness into our coursework on ESL teaching and learning. The implications for the study show that culture should not be viewed as a ‘discrete’ or ‘bounded’ entity and that teacher education programmes need to do a better job of bridging the divide between theory and practice
Bachelor · Bridging (networking · Coursework · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Teacher education · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2018 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |