Nonnative Speaker English Teachers: Research, Pedagogy, and Professional Growth
According to current estimates, about eighty percent of English teachers worldwide are nonnative speakers of the language. The nonnative speaker movement began a decade ago to counter the discrimination faced by these teachers and to champion their causes.
Книга для развития навыка письма, уровень Elementary.
Interactions consists of eight texts plus two instructor's manuals for in-college or college-bound nonnative English students. INTERACTIONS I is for high-beginning to low-intermediate students.
Non-native language teachers have often been viewed as an unavoidable fate of the profession, rather than an asset worth exploring and investigating. Now that non-natives are increasingly found teaching languages, and particularly English, both in ESL and EFL contexts, the identification of their specific contributions and their main strengths has become more relevant than ever.
As a result, there has recently been a surge of interest in the role of non-native teachers but little empirical research has been published so far. This volume is particularly rich in providing different approaches to the study of non-native teachers: NNS teachers as seen by students, teachers, graduate supervisors, and by themselves. It also contributes little explored perspectives, like classroom discourse analysis, or a social-psychological framework to discuss conceptions of NNS teachers.
This issue showcases the U.S. National Park System. The feature article is coupled with a lesson plan on preservation or “going green.” Other articles cover replacement performance role-plays, the paradigm shift from paper-and-pencil tests to performance-based assessments, using story-based frameworks, microteaching for non-native speaking teacher trainees, and open classroom communication centered on civic education.
Учебник по развитию навыков чтения, уровень Intermediate.
Mosaic consists of eight texts plus two instructor's manuals for in-college or college-bound nonnative English students. Mosaic I is for intermediate to high-intermediate students.