Faces of English Education provides an accessible, wide-ranging introduction to current perspectives on English language education, covering new areas of interest and recent studies in the field. In seventeen specially commissioned chapters written by international experts and practitioners, this book: offers an authoritative discussion of theoretical issues and debates surrounding key topics such as identity, motivation, teacher education and classroom pedagogy; discusses teaching from the perspective of the student as well as the teacher, and features sections on both in- and out-of-class learning; showcases the latest teaching research and methods, including MOOCs, use of corpora, and blended learning, and addresses the interface between theory and practice; analyses the different ways and contexts in which English is taught, learned and used around the world. Faces of English Education is essential reading for pre- and in-service teachers, researchers in TESOL and applied linguistics, and teacher educators, as well as upper undergraduate and postgraduate students studying related topics.

Showcasing the voices, perspectives, and experiences of rural English teachers and students, Teaching English in Rural Communities promotes equity, diversity, and inclusivity within rural education. Specifically, this book develops a Critical Rural English Pedagogy (CREP), which draws attention to issues of power, representation, and justice related to rurality. Based on the assumption that “rurality” is a social construct, CREP critiques deficit-laden stereotypes and renderings of rural places and people that circulate in media, popular discourse, and even education at times. In doing so, CREP opens up possibilities for educators and students to use the English classroom as a space to better understand the complex issues they face as rural people and ways to promote more nuanced and comprehensive representations of rurality. In particular, this book highlights English rural classrooms whereby students examine representations of rurality in literary and media texts; decenter dominant settler-colonist narratives of rural spaces, places, and people; develop understandings of Indigenous perspectives and cultural practices, particularly related to land stewardship; and engage in local outreach to promote inclusivity within rural communities. This book also gives special attention to ways race and racism may factor into literacy education in rural contexts and possibilities for rural educators to attend to these issues.

English and Its Teachers offers a historical overview of the development of secondary English teaching in schools over the past 50 years. Initially charting the rise of a new progressive approach in the 1960s, the book then considers the implications for the subject and its teachers of three decades of central policy intervention. Throughout, document and interview data are combined to construct a narrative that details the fascinating and, at times, turbulent history. The book is divided into two main parts – ‘The age of invention’ and ‘The age of intervention’. The first of these sections details how innovative English teachers and academics helped to develop a new model. The second section explores how successive governments have sought to shape English through policy. A final part draws comparisons with the teaching of the subject in other major English-speaking nations and considers what the future might hold. English and Its Teachers is a valuable resource for those interested in the teaching of English in secondary schools, from new entrants to the profession, to experienced teachers and academics working in the sector.

The present book 'Pedagogy of English' is designed to cater to the needs of the B.Ed students studying English as a pedagogical subject across various Universities in the world, especially in India. Teaching of English effectively goes with an intense passion for teaching where professional competence and professional ethics are of vital importance. English is taught as a foreign language in some countries of the world and as a second language in the countries like India. People have easily adapted the western style in dress, food habits and some of the cultural attributes of the English people. But with regard to using the language English for communication purposes both in personal and professional life; the Indians feel it very difficult. Many a time the people are able to understand the English spoken by other people, but find it very difficult to respond in English. The reason for this handicap is that no Indian school teaches English in a formal manner, but functional English alone is taught. Furthermore the Indian students have less exposure to English communication environment. School is the only place where the students have the opportunity to get exposed to learn English. Even at schools only one period of 45 minutes is allocated for teaching of English, which is not sufficient to learn a rich foreign language like English. Added to this, the major number of parents especially in rural areas do not know English and not in a position to help their kids in learning English at their respective homes. Even at school final examinations, writing skill of students are alone evaluated. Importance to other language skills namely listening, speaking and reading is completely ignored. Hence the students even after acquiring so many degrees and diplomas are not able to find a suitable employment because of their lack of sufficient skill in communicative English. The English teachers have to explore new innovative techniques, strategies, approaches and methods using electronic gadgets in their day to day class room teaching. The present book come to the rescue of the teachers to become a great master in teaching of English as it has exhaustively covered all areas to become a perfect and efficient English teacher. The book covers in its content aims and objectives of English, planning for teaching of English, various pedagogical skills for teaching of English, methods and approaches that can be used to make teaching of English more effective, methods to teach Prose, Poem, Grammar and Composition, Testing and evaluation in an English classrooms and different kinds of teaching learning materials to make English learning more interesting. Through a long persistent practical experience, it has been ascertained that the young English prospective teachers experience difficulties while learning English as a Pedagogy Subject. This book is a sincere attempt to provide the primary rules of teaching English to all teacher trainees in a very lucid form irrespective of their socio-economic background. Besides teacher trainees, practicing teachers and others who use English Language for day to day communications may also use this book as a quick reference and getting their doubts cleared.English is taught in Indian schools as a second language and acquiring teaching skills in teaching the language requires meticulous planning, hard work and perseverance, beside an intense passion for teaching of English. English is a skill subject and regular practice in various skills of the language namely, listening, speaking, reading and writing and everyday exposure to the language can be the most effective strategy to master the language in its various skills. As such, the present book is written in such a way that any English language lover can easily become more attracted to learning of English and become masters by applying the concepts stated in the book in a systematic way.

Bringing together theory, research, and practice to dismantle Anti-Black Linguistic Racism and white linguistic supremacy, this book provides ethnographic snapshots of how Black students navigate and negotiate their linguistic and racial identities across multiple contexts. By highlighting the counterstories of Black students, Baker-Bell demonstrates how traditional approaches to language education do not account for the emotional harm, internalized linguistic racism, or consequences these approaches have on Black students' sense of self and identity. This book presents Anti-Black Linguistic Racism as a framework that explicitly names and richly captures the linguistic violence, persecution, dehumanization, and marginalization Black Language-speakers endure when using their language in schools and in everyday life. To move toward Black linguistic liberation, Baker-Bell introduces a new way forward through Antiracist Black Language Pedagogy, a pedagogical approach that intentionally and unapologetically centers the linguistic, cultural, racial, intellectual, and self-confidence needs of Black students. This volume captures what Antiracist Black Language Pedagogy looks like in classrooms while simultaneously illustrating how theory, research, and practice can operate in tandem in pursuit of linguistic and racial justice. A crucial resource for educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students in language and literacy education, writing studies, sociology of education, sociolinguistics, and critical pedagogy, this book features a range of multimodal examples and practices through instructional maps, charts, artwork, and stories that reflect the urgent need for antiracist language pedagogies in our current social and political climate.

Although linguists have traditionally viewed code-switching as the simultaneous use of two language varieties in a single context, scholars and teachers of English have appropriated the term to argue for teaching minority students to monitor their languages and dialects according to context. For advocates of code-switching, teaching students to distinguish between "home language" and "school language" offers a solution to the tug-of-war between standard and nonstandard Englishes. This volume arises from concerns that this kind of code-switching may actually facilitate the illiteracy and academic failure that educators seek to eliminate and can promote resistance to Standard English rather than encouraging its use. The original essays in this collection offer various perspectives on why code-meshing--blending minoritized dialects and world Englishes with Standard English--is a better pedagogical alternative than code-switching in the teaching of reading, writing, listening, speaking, and visually representing to diverse learners. This collection argues that code-meshing rather than code-switching leads to lucid, often dynamic prose by people whose first language is something other than English, as well as by native English speakers who speak and write with "accents" and those whose home language or neighborhood dialects are deemed "nonstandard." While acknowledging the difficulties in implementing a code-meshing pedagogy, editors Vershawn Ashanti Young and Aja Y. Martinez, along with a range of scholars from international and national literacy studies, English education, writing studies, sociolinguistics, and critical pedagogy, argue that all writers and speakers benefit when we demystify academic language and encourage students to explore the plurality of the English language in both unofficial and official spaces.