Elt JournalPub Date : 2023-04-13DOI: 10.1093/elt/ccad013
Miso Kim
{"title":"Decolonizing ELT materials: a sociomaterial orientation","authors":"Miso Kim","doi":"10.1093/elt/ccad013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccad013","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article adopts a sociomaterial perspective on ELT materials and illustrates how a mandatory textbook is used as a springboard to create decolonizing relations in the classroom ecology. Sociomaterial perspectives view learning as not the transmission but the emergence of knowledge from embodied relations, which shifts the focus from the textbook itself to the relations surrounding it. Based on this shift, this article first provides exploratory questions for teachers to understand the classroom ecology. A set of example activities in a beginner-level Japanese EFL class follows, which showcase how a textbook published by a global publisher could be turned into a springboard to attract translingual and multimodal materials and meaning-making resources. Learning emerges through the entangled relationships of the prescribed textbook, materials, resources, students, and teachers. The article concludes with practical implications to enrich the ELT classroom ecology.","PeriodicalId":47776,"journal":{"name":"Elt Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49388943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elt JournalPub Date : 2023-04-13DOI: 10.1093/elt/ccad015
Lachlan R. Jackson
{"title":"Starting Points in Critical Language Pedagogy","authors":"Lachlan R. Jackson","doi":"10.1093/elt/ccad015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccad015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47776,"journal":{"name":"Elt Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41872295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elt JournalPub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1093/elt/ccad012
Mario E. López-Gopar, William M. Sughrua
{"title":"Decolonizing ELT methods through critical thematic units","authors":"Mario E. López-Gopar, William M. Sughrua","doi":"10.1093/elt/ccad012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccad012","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The purpose of this paper is to resist the ‘colonial’ status of ELT by discussing our attempts to decolonize ELT methods through critical thematic units (CTUs), co-developed and applied by Mexican student-teachers working with children in Oaxaca, Mexico. Understanding that epistemologies (knowledge) and in consequence language methods are provincial, historically situated, and embodied in children’s ontologies and material lives, our CTUs start by questioning ‘why’ English should be brought into children’s lives and then continue by analysing ‘what’ social purposes ELT could accomplish with children, with a focus on important themes in their lives (e.g. water shortage, nutrition, and health). With these CTUs, which adopt a heteroglossic and multimodal view of language, teachers and children coauthor multimodal and multilingual identity texts serving as pedagogic and assessment spaces where language is both learned and used to negotiate affirming identities for both teachers and children. To exemplify these decolonizing attempts, the present article walks the readers through the components and implementation of one CTU focused on ‘eating habits in connection to health issues’, carried out by two student-teachers. The article will thus articulate how our CTUs are different from what are considered ‘methods’ in ELT, as they are epistemologically and socially situated.","PeriodicalId":47776,"journal":{"name":"Elt Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47001887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elt JournalPub Date : 2023-04-06DOI: 10.1093/elt/ccad002
Hanung Triyoko, Tabitha Kidwell
{"title":"Promoting a World Englishes Perspective through Podcasts","authors":"Hanung Triyoko, Tabitha Kidwell","doi":"10.1093/elt/ccad002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccad002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47776,"journal":{"name":"Elt Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43623324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elt JournalPub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1093/elt/ccad003
Gemma Archer
{"title":"English pronunciation teaching and learning for the world that speaks it","authors":"Gemma Archer","doi":"10.1093/elt/ccad003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccad003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47776,"journal":{"name":"Elt Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43693151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elt JournalPub Date : 2023-03-25DOI: 10.1093/elt/ccad011
S. Rabbi
{"title":"Towards decolonizing L2 writing pedagogy: translingual and transmodal resources","authors":"S. Rabbi","doi":"10.1093/elt/ccad011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccad011","url":null,"abstract":"Scholarly conversations in writing pedagogy increasingly centre our roles in reproducing epistemic and structural biases, and consequently the need to decolonize our curriculum. These conversations can be especially informative for L2 writing instruction, given its focus on the academic socialization of ESL for non-Western students. This article argues for translingual and transmodal resources as a way towards decolonizing L2 writing pedagogy. Framing these approaches to writing instruction in terms of ‘border thinking’, I argue that they open the classroom space for L2 and L1 students during process-based writing instruction. They enable students to use the various semiotic and material resources to produce knowledge and learn authentically. I end by illustrating pedagogic activities I use in the classroom shaped by these paradigms in terms of their alignment with Indigenous and non-Western traditions, and how they position L2 writers in the academy as resourceful learners.","PeriodicalId":47776,"journal":{"name":"Elt Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46525099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elt JournalPub Date : 2023-03-23DOI: 10.1093/elt/ccad014
Anna Hasper, Gary Barkhuizen
{"title":"CELTA tutors’ beliefs about online tutoring practices","authors":"Anna Hasper, Gary Barkhuizen","doi":"10.1093/elt/ccad014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccad014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Although a number of studies have explored the experiences of remote English language teaching in response to COVID-19, yet to be addressed is English language teacher-educators’ beliefs regarding their online tutoring practices. This article reports on the finding of a study which attempted to identify tutors’ beliefs about the differences between face-to-face (F2F) and online tutoring and the knowledge and skills required for online tutoring. Data collected through a questionnaire and follow-up interviews reveal that instructional strategies were regarded as a main difference between F2F and online tutoring, followed by the use of technology. However, knowledge about technology and how to use it was believed to be most important for tutoring in an online environment. Implications of the study include creating structured professional learning opportunities for online tutors, incorporating a focus on managing well-being, and developing awareness of the trainees’ sociocultural context.","PeriodicalId":47776,"journal":{"name":"Elt Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136166874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elt JournalPub Date : 2023-03-22DOI: 10.1093/elt/ccad006
Clarissa Menezes Jordão
{"title":"A case for <i>ELF feito no Brasil</i>","authors":"Clarissa Menezes Jordão","doi":"10.1093/elt/ccad006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccad006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article starts from a comment on my locus of enunciation (i.e., the context from which I speak), a key element of decoloniality as a means of resisting the idea of disembodied knowledge or neutrality promoted by modernity/coloniality. I then proceed to explain how I understand the entanglement of modernity and coloniality and why we need to break away from coloniality, both ontologically and epistemologically. It is in this entanglement where ELT is traditionally situated, and it is from such contexts that English teacher education in Brazil should be examined for its harm to local knowledges and knowers. I conclude by explaining what is meant by ELF feito no Brasil and why this may be a possibility to resist the coloniality of ELT.","PeriodicalId":47776,"journal":{"name":"Elt Journal","volume":"430 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136195338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}