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Authenticity in the Language Classroom and Beyond: Adult Learners
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Adult language learners have specific learning goals that reflect their lives within a global society, and adults negotiate multiple and changing identities throughout their personal, academic, and professional lives. Chapters in Authenticity in the Language Classroom and Beyond: Adult Learners highlight how teachers have the ability to transform language instruction from a mechanical learning experience to a dynamic interaction to assist learners in reaching real-world goals. Rather than focus only on native-speaker norms of language production, English language instruction can provide adult learners with opportunities to create and act on their own texts, engage meaningfully with audiences, and develop interactions that mirror their purpose for learning. The chapters in this volume demonstrate how language teaching practices engage learners in authentic experiences, using and producing texts to meet international and localized communication needs.
All the chapters in this volume demonstrate that authenticity is more than just the materials we use. Authenticity also means using language for real purposes. It means engaging students in collaborative learning, involving discussions, negotiations, and decision making. Authenticity is creating real uses for English, not just modeling native-speaker language and culture. With English increasingly being used as a lingua franca to connect second language speakers, authenticity takes on new meanings as we seek to develop learners who can face the challenge of communicating effectively in an increasingly globalized world.
Publication Date: August 2009
Volume Editor: Sarah Rilling and Maria Dantas-Whitney
Ordering Information:
TESOL Bookstore (online ordering)
Order No. 608, 270 pp., ISBN 9781931185608
(Member: $29.95) (Nonmember: $39.95)
Audience: Classroom Practice, Teacher Education
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Series Editors’ Preface
Chapter 1
Introduction: Authenticity, Creativity, and Localization in Language Learning
Sarah Rilling and Maria Dantas-Whitney
Authentic Design: Tasks, Materials, and Curricula
Chapter 2
Where Can I Get My Shoe Fixed? Authentic Tasks for Students in EFL Settings
Jan Edwards Dormer
Chapter 3
Sharing Our Culture With Visitors: English for Tour Guides
Janet M. D. Higgins
Chapter 4
Oh, the Places You’ll Go: Creating a Class City Guide
Laura Ramm
Chapter 5
Magazine as Project-Based Learning
Hoang Thi Ngoc Diem
Chapter 6
Language Training ŕ la Carte
Peggy Allen Heidish
Authentic Language: Skills, Content, and Culture
Chapter 7
Using Authentic Texts to Facilitate Culturally Relevant Extensive
Lori Fredricks
Chapter 8
The English of Math—It’s Not Just Numbers!
Kathy Ewing and Bill Huguelet
Chapter 9
Readers’ Theater: Turbo-Charged Language Acquisition
Gary Carkin, Sarah Dodson-Knight, Alexis Gerard Finger, Silvia Rodriguez Spence, Nigel A. Caplan and Judy Trupin
Chapter 10
Inexpensive, Effective ESP Material Development for the EFL Classroom
Marvin D. Hoffland and Oswald Jochum
Authentic Connections: Community Partnerships
Chapter 11
Exploring the Global Landscape Through Language and Service Learning
Beth Kozbial Ernst and Megan Allen
Chapter 12
Creating a Technical Career ESL Program Through Community Partnerships
Gilda Rubio-Festa and Rebeca Fernández
Chapter 13
Climate Change and Other Hot Topics on Campus: Project-Based Learning
Marianne Stipe and Lora Yasen
Chapter 14
This Class Is a Disaster: Public Information, Natural Disasters, and the ESL Classroom in the
Christopher Miles and Bill Powell
Authentic Purpose, Authentic Medium: Technology in Language Learning
Chapter 15
The Times They Are A-Changin’: Strategies for Exploiting Authentic Materials in the Language Classroom
Alex Gilmore
Chapter 16
Lights, Camera, Action: Scripts for Language Learning
Gregory Strong
Chapter 17
Authentic Video as Passport to Cultural Participation and Understanding
Christopher Stillwell
Chapter 18
Sharing the Food and Fun Through Restaurant Review Blogs: An Integrated-Skills Project Approach
Timothy R. Healy
Chapter 19
Using Wikis for Collaborative Writing and Intercultural Learning
Geoffrey P.J. Lawrence, Terry Compton, Clayton Young, and Hazel Owen
Chapter 20
Developing Specialized Discourse Resources for International Teaching Assistants Using a Multimedia Wiki
Barbara Gourlay, David Kanig, Joan Lusk, and Stewart Mader
Chapter 21
I Tube . . . Do YouTube? Virtual Portfolios for Reflective Learning and Peer Review
Kathleen Snyder-Parampil and Joel Hensley
Chapter 22
Medical Doctors Using Authentic Webcast Lectures to Learn Lexical Phrases
Susan Olmstead-Wang
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