Globalization and Language Teaching

✍ Scribed by David Block

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 208
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book considers the issues globalization raises for second language learning and teaching. Block and Cameron's collection shows how, in an economy based on services and information, the linguistic skills of workers becomes increasingly important. New technologies make possible new kinds of language teaching, and language becomes an economic commodity with a value in the global marketplace. This has implications for how and why people learn languages, and for which languages they learn.Drawing together the various strands of the globalization debate, this rich and varied collection of contributions explores issues such as:The commodification of language(s) and language skillsThe use of new media and new technologies in language learning and teachingThe effects of globalization on the language teaching industryNew forms of power and resistance.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of tables......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction DAVID BLOCK AND DEBORAH CAMERON......Page 12
The global and the local......Page 22
The impact of globalization on language teaching in Japan RYUKO KUBOTA......Page 24
Globalization, diaspora and language education in England ROXY HARRIS, CONSTANT LEUNG AND BEN RAMPTON......Page 40
Globalization and the commodification of bilingualism in Canada MONICA HELLER......Page 58
Zones of contact......Page 76
Globalization and the teaching of 'communication skills' DEBORAH CAMERON......Page 78
Foreign language learning as global communicative practice CLAIRE KRAMSCH AND STEVEN L. THORNE......Page 94
Local literacies and global literacy CATHERINE WALLACE......Page 112
Methods and materials......Page 126
'McCommunication': a problem in the frame for SLA DAVID BLOCK......Page 128
Globalization, methods, and practice in periphery classrooms A. SURESH CANAGARAJAH......Page 145
The global coursebook in English Language Teaching JOHN GRAY......Page 162
Bibliography......Page 179
Index......Page 197