
EFL Pedagogy as Cultural Discourse
Textbooks, Practice, and Policy for Arabs and Jews in Israel
- 186 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
EFL Pedagogy as Cultural Discourse
Textbooks, Practice, and Policy for Arabs and Jews in Israel
About this book
This book offers unique insight into the role that English as a Foreign Language (EFL) discourse plays in shaping the ideological terrain of contemporary Israel/Palestine through constructing the subjectivities of those who plan, teach, and learn it.
While the EFL curriculum is uniform across Hebrew and Arabic-speaking educational contexts, this book traces how its cultural content reproduces dominant hegemonic ideologies, and perpetuates the social misrepresentations of the Other that underlie inequality. The language of English teaching textbooks, the way that students understand their content, and the official policy documents that guide both EFL materials and teaching practices, are all thoroughly examined through Critical Discourse Analysis. The theoretical and methodological foundation for further cross-cultural studies of Anglo-centric and other forms of hegemonic EFL discourses within local/global contexts, and for contesting their ideological effects, are also laid down.
Through promoting a transformative EFL cultural discourse which hopes to position EFL teaching as a possible arena for effecting social change, this book offers a unique context for students, scholars, and educators interested in linguistics, CDA, cultural discourse studies, English in local/global contexts, and EFL education.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Why English?
- 2. EFL Discourse: Beyond Language Education
- 3. EFL Textbooks as Ideological Vehicles
- 4. Storied Selves: Analysis of EFL Learners’ Cultural Representations
- 5. EFL Policy Discourse: Global and Local Perspectives
- 6. EFL as a Cultural Discourse: Toward a Transformative EFL Pedagogy
- 7. Conclusion: EFL as a Cultural Discourse of Action
- Index