Innovating EFL Teaching in Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Introduction: Mapping our Path to, and through, Innovating EFL Teaching in Asia

   1. Introduction: Mapping our Path to, and through, Innovating EFL Teaching in Asia

      • Theron Muller

      Pages 1-3

3. Defining the Asian EFL Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-8

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   2. Teaching the New English Curriculum: An Ethnographic Study in a Chinese High School

      • Xi Fang

      Pages 9-22

   3. Global Cultures and Identities: Refocusing the Aims of ELT in Asia through Intercultural Awareness

      • Will Baker

      Pages 23-34

   4. Training the Pesantren: Intercultural Materials for Islamic Boarding Schools in Indonesia

      • Gillian Palmer, Itje Chodidjah

      Pages 35-48

   5. Language Learning Styles and Beliefs of EFL University Students in Korea: Are They Really Stereotypical?

      • Theron Muller, Steven Herder, John Adamson, Philip Shigeo Brown

      Pages 49-60

4. Empowering Asian Voices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-65

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   2. Learner Autonomy in Asia: How Asian Teachers and Students See Themselves

      • Fumiko Murase

      Pages 66-81

   3. How Thai National Culture Can Be Used to Explain Students’ Behavior

      • Chutigarn Raktham

      Pages 82-94

   4. Co-constructing Teacher Beliefs about Qualifications: Insights from Interviews in the Japanese Context

      • John Adamson

      Pages 95-109

   5. ‘Reconceptualizing’ Self as a Teacher in a Malaysian Context

      • Rosemary Erlam, Susan Gray

      Pages 110-121

5. Innovating Teaching Methodology in Asia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-126

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   2. Promoting Strategy Teaching as an Innovative Practice in the Asian EFL Oral Classroom

      • Theron Muller, Steven Herder, John Adamson, Philip Shigeo Brown

      Pages 127-134

   3. Innovating a Vocabulary Learning Strategies Program

      • Philip Shigeo Brown

      Pages 135-144

   4. Classroom Discourse Analysis of Student Use of Language Scaffolding During Tasks

      • Theron Muller, Mark de Boer

      Pages 145-161

   5. Innovating EFL Teaching of Reading: An Activity Theory Perspective on Chinese Teachers’ Readiness to Adapt to Educational Reform

      • Hongzhi Yang, Eva Bernat

      Pages 162-176

6. Teaching Young Learners in Asia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-180

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   2. Exploring Teachers’ Implementation of the Recent Curriculum Innovation in ELT in Turkish Primary Education

      • Yasemin Kırkgöz

      Pages 181-195

   3. Affective Factors Contributing to Intrinsic Motivation for Learning English among Elementary School Students in Japan

      • Junko Matsuzaki Carreira

      Pages 196-203

This collection offers a distinctly Asian voice for English language education and addresses some of the unique needs of Asian learners in EFL contexts. Teachers and researchers from nine Asian countries present some of the most current and innovative research in five distinct and fascinating areas of EFL teaching and learning.

• English
• language
• Language Learning

• University of Toyama, Japan

  Theron Muller

• Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts, Kyoto, Japan

  Steven Herder

• University of Niigata Prefecture, Japan

  John Adamson

• Konan Women’s University, Japan

  Philip Shigeo Brown

KIRSTEN ANDERSON Researcher, educator and teacher in the USA WILL BAKER teaches Applied Linguistics, Intercultural Communication and ELT at the University of Southampton, UK EVA BERNAT Lecturer in TESOL and Coordinator of the Master of Education in Applied Linguistics program at the School of Education, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia MARK DE BOER Project Faculty Manager at Iwate University, Northern Japan JUNKO MATSUZAKI CARREIRA Full-Time Lecturer at Tokyo Future University, Japan ITJE CHODIDJAH Lecturer in the English Department in Uhamka University, Jakarta, Indonesia PETER CLEMENTS Associate Professor of English in the Faculty of Education at Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan ROSEMARY ERLAM Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand XI FANG Teacher and researcher based in China ANDREW FINCH Professor of English Education at Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea SUSAN GRAY teaches at the Faculty of Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand JAMES HALL Associate Professor at the Iwate University Faculty of Education, Japan TOSHIO HISAOKA teacher of English at a senior high school in Japan TAKERU ISHIGAME Curriculum Coordinator at Iwate University Faculty of Education Affiliated Elementary School, Japan YASEMIN KIRKGÖZ Lecturer based in Turkey WENDY Y. K. LAM Associate Professor in the Department of English at the Hong Kong Instituteof Education, Hong Kong FUMIKO MURASE teaches English in Japan PARVATHY NARAYANAN Educational Researcher based in India GILL PALMER teaches as Oxford Brookes University, UK CHUTIGARN RAKTHAM has worked as an English teacher at a Thai university for the past twelve years BARBARA HOSKINS SAKAMOTO has taught English and ESL in the US and EFL in Japan for more than twenty years CHOHEI TAKAHASHI Chief of Research at Iwate University Faculty of Education Affiliated Elementary School, Japan TOMOKO YAMAZAKI Professor at the Iwate University Faculty of Education, Japan HONGZHI YANG is in the School of Education, the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia HUAHUI ZHAO Postdoctoral Researcher at Umea University, Sweden

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