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Teacher Agency and Policy Response in English Language Teaching

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Teacher Agency and Policy Response in English Language Teaching explores how English language teachers respond to educational reforms and policy changes in diverse local and national contexts. The book considers teacher agency as a complex blend of personal history, training, beliefs, and interactions with policy interpretations. It includes case studies on curricular innovation in China, incorporating academic skills in EFL curricula, native versus non-native dynamics in Japan, and teacher-designed high-stakes testing with its impacts.
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This book is ideal for researchers in education, curriculum developers, language planners, and anyone interested in contemporary issues in English language teaching policy and practice.

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The role of English in the global arena has prompted official language-in-education policymakers to adopt language education policies to enable citizens to be proficient in English and to access knowledge. Local educational contexts in different countries have implemented English education in their own ways with different pedagogical goals, motivations, features, and pedagogies.

While much of the research cited in English language planning policy has focused on macro-level language policy and planning, there is an increasing interest in micro-planning, in particular, teacher agency in policy response. Individual teacher agency is a multifaceted amalgam, not only of teachers’ individual histories, professional training, personal values, and instructional beliefs but also of how these interact with local interpretations and appropriations of policy.

Teacher Agency and Policy Response in English Language Teaching examines the agency of the teacher in negotiating educational reforms and policy changes at the local and national levels.

Chapters in the book include:

  • English language teaching in China: teacher agency in response to curricular innovations
  • Incorporating academic skills into EFL curriculum: teacher agency in response to global mobility challenge
  • Teacher agency, the native/nonnative dichotomy, and "English Classes in English" in Japanese high schools
  • Teacher-designed high stakes English language testing: washback and impact

This book will appeal to researchers across all sectors of education, in particular key stakeholders in curriculum and language planning. Those interested in the latest developments of English language teaching will also find this book a valuable resource.

Series: Routledge Research in Language Education

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    The role of English in the global arena has prompted official language-in-education policymakers to adopt language education policies to enable citizens to be proficient in English and to access knowledge. Local educational contexts in different countries have implemented English education in their own ways with different pedagogical goals, motivations, features, and pedagogies. While much of the research cited in English...
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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138604544

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 May 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 7 Tables, black and white; 7 Line drawings, black and white

Contributors:

  • Edited by Patrick C. L. Ng
  • Edited by Esther F. Boucher-Yip

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 236g

Pages: 204

About the Author

Patrick C. L. Ng holds an EdD in Applied Linguistics and TESOL (University of Leicester, UK) and is currently a professor at the University of Niigata Prefecture in Japan. His research focuses on language planning and policy, sociolinguistics, language education, bilingualism, multilingualism, English as a lingua franca and Chinese language studies.

Esther F. Boucher-Yip is an assistant professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA. She holds an EdD in Applied Linguistics and TESOL from University of Leicester, UK. She is the author of the book Language Maintenance and Shift Among the Semai in Malaysia: A Study of Indigenous Language Use and the co-editor of Local Contextual Influences on Teaching: Narrative Insights from ESL and EFL Professionals.

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