Power and Meaning Making in an EAP Classroom: Engaging with the Everyday by Chri

Description: Power and Meaning Making in an EAP Classroom by Christian W. Chun This book examines how critical literacy pedagogy has been implemented in a classroom through a collaboration between the author (a researcher) and an EAP teacher. It will interest researchers and practitioners for the ethnographic and pedagogical issues it raises as well as its accessible theoretical frameworks illustrated by interactional data. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book examines how critical literacy pedagogy has been implemented in a classroom through a year-long collaboration between the author (a researcher) and an EAP teacher. It details the teachers introduction to functional grammar and accompanying critical literacy approaches to EAP, and her growing critical language and discourse awareness of power and meaning making in the classroom. The book traces her evolving classroom practices and addresses how powerful discourses in social circulation found their way into the classroom via the curriculum materials the students encountered. The main themes of the book are threefold: narrowing the divide between critically-oriented researchers and practitioners; how critical literacy is actually implemented in a teachers classroom; and how people (students and the teacher) engage in and with the representations and discourses of the everyday world that include neoliberal globalization, racial and cultural identities, and consumerism.It will be of interest to both researchers and practitioners for the ethnographic and pedagogical issues it raises as well as its accessible theoretical frameworks illustrated by relevant classroom interactional data, mediated, multimodal and critical discourse analysis. Author Biography Christian W. Chun is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include English for Academic Purposes, critical literacies, social-semiotic approaches to language education, visual culture and linguistic landscapes. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: An EAP Classroom Chapter Three: Exploring the Making of Meanings Chapter Four: The Multimodalities of Neoliberal Globalization Discourses in YouTube videos Chapter Five: Engaging with Neoliberalization Discourses, Part Two: Summer term class Chapter Six: Who is Jennifer Wong? Multiculturalism and the model minority consumer Chapter Seven: Bringing the political into an EAP Classroom? Chapter Eight: Everyday life of an EAP classroom Review Christian Chuns book is a true must for anyone involved in EAP teaching and researching, for anyone who is captive to the dilemmas of neoliberal higher education. -- Catalina Neculai, Coventry University, UK Journal of English for Academic Purposes (2015) 1-4 This book is an important contribution to the research of critical pedagogies in English language education; it will doubtlessly be useful for language education researchers who intend to conduct classroom research with practicing teachers, and for EAP instructors interested in understanding how critical pedagogies can empower their students in learning the language while developing their critical literacy skills. -- Kongji Qin, Michigan State University, USA Discourse & Society 28(3) Promotional Chuns fresh and engaging exploration of how an EAP teacher implemented functional grammar and critical literacy in her classes is an important contribution to the EAP literature. His discussion of the collaboration between himself and the EAP teacher offers an intimate portrait of the challenges of translating newly-learned theoretical constructs into everyday classroom activities. Sarah Benesch, College of Staten Island, City University of New York, USA This is an exemplary study of an EAP classroom. It is a critically reflexive and refreshing account of what it means to be an EAP teacher and what we do in our classrooms. The writing is both engaging and thoughtful and I highly recommend it. Brian Paltridge, University of Sydney, Australia Through a critical ethnographic study of one teachers evolving practice, Christian Chun challenges us to interrogate the nexus between neoliberal social and economic forces and the daily classroom realities of an EAP teacher and her students striving to make and share meaning in what has become the higher education marketplace. Sue Starfield, The University of New South Wales, Australia Long Description This book examines how critical literacy pedagogy has been implemented in a classroom through a year-long collaboration between the author (a researcher) and an EAP teacher. It details the teachers introduction to functional grammar and accompanying critical literacy approaches to EAP, and her growing critical language and discourse awareness of power and meaning making in the classroom. The book traces her evolving classroom practices and addresses how powerful discourses in social circulation found their way into the classroom via the curriculum materials the students encountered. The main themes of the book are threefold: narrowing the divide between critically-oriented researchers and practitioners; how critical literacy is actually implemented in a teachers classroom; and how people (students and the teacher) engage in and with the representations and discourses of the everyday world that include neoliberal globalization, racial and cultural identities, and consumerism. It will be of interest to both researchers and practitioners for the ethnographic and pedagogical issues it raises as well as its accessible theoretical frameworks illustrated by relevant classroom interactional data, mediated, multimodal and critical discourse analysis. Review Quote This book should be widely read because it addresses an acute and current linguistic issue which we language teachers should seriously take into consideration. This book invites critical language educators to revisit an EAP classroom with a critical lens. Chun has done a wonderful job in challenging us to revisit our classroom and realize a meaningful connection of theory and practice in EAP. Details ISBN1783092947 Author Christian W. Chun Publisher Channel View Publications Ltd Series Critical Language and Literacy Studies Year 2015 ISBN-10 1783092947 ISBN-13 9781783092949 Format Hardcover Subtitle Engaging with the Everyday Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 428.24071 Publication Date 2015-01-13 Place of Publication Bristol Short Title POWER & MEANING MAKING IN AN E Language English Media Book Series Number 19 Illustrations Yes Imprint Multilingual Matters Pages 240 AU Release Date 2015-01-13 NZ Release Date 2015-01-13 UK Release Date 2015-01-13 Alternative 9781783092932 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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