Understanding Context in Language Use and Teaching: An ELF Perspective

✍ Scribed by Éva Illés

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 163
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a guide to understanding and applying the essential, heretofore elusive, notion of context in language study and pedagogy. Éva Illés offers a new, critical, systematic theoretical framework, then applies that framework to practical interactions and issues in communicative language teaching rooted in English as a Lingua Franca. By linking theory and practice for research and teaching around the world, this book brings a new awareness of how context can be conceptualised and related to language pedagogy to advanced students, teachers, teacher educators and researchers of language teaching, applied linguistics and pragmatics.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1 Context, ELF and Language Pedagogy
Introduction
English as a Lingua Franca
Context and ELF
Context in ELF-Related Language Pedagogy
Conclusion and Synopsis
References
2 Cursory Definitions of Context
Introduction
Selection of Context Definitions
Issues Arising
Context of Situation
Relevance
Schema
Dichotomies
Schemata
Summary
References
3 Perspectives on Context
Introduction
Context from the Analyst’s Perspective
Firth’s Definition of Context
Hymes’s SPEAKING Mnemonic1
Pennycook’s SEMIOSIS Mnemonics
Speech Act Theory
Van Dijk’s Model of Context
Conclusion
Context from the Participant’s Perspective
Grice’s Cooperative Principle
Widdowson’s Framework of Context
Conclusion
Note
References
4 Synthesis: Context in Language Use
Context as Schema
Context as Capability
Researching Context
Summary
References
5 Context in Language Teaching
Introduction
Teaching Language for Communication
Teaching Language as Communication
Summary
References
6 Context in ELF
ELF Communication
ELF Context
References
7 Towards an ELF-Informed Approach to ELT
ELF Context and Its Implications for ELT
Proposals for ELF-Informed Language Pedagogy
A Proposed ELF-Informed Approach to ELT
References
8 Implementation of an ELF-Informed Approach to ELT
Introduction
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
Teaching Literature
Teaching Translation
Computer Mediated Communication (CMC)
Conclusion and Endnote
References
Index