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The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning (PELT)

Beyond the Binaries: Researching Critically in EFL Classrooms

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Editors:
  1. Mark Vicars

    1. Victoria University, Australia

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  2. Shirley Steinberg

    1. University of Calgary, Canada

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  3. Tarquam McKenna

    1. Victoria University, Australia

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  4. Marcelle Cacciattolo

    1. Victoria University, Australia

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  • Beyond the Binaries: Researching Critically in EFL Classrooms is a collection of writing that draws on multiple lenses for thinking through possibilities for pedagogy and research in EFL settings.

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Employing the Bricolage as Critical Research in Teaching English as a Foreign Language

    • Shirley R. Steinberg
    Pages 7-25

  3. Encounter and Dialogue in EFL Classrooms

    • Domenica Maviglia
    Pages 27-43

  4. The Business of Validity, Reliability and Authentic Need

    • Tarquam McKenna
    Pages 45-60

  5. Ethical Considerations in Research

    • Marcelle Cacciattolo
    Pages 61-79

  6. Disenfranchisement and Empowerment in an EAL Educational Setting

    • Mark Vicars
    Pages 81-95

  7. Fundamentals of Quantitative Research in the Field of Teaching English as a Foreign Language

    • Anthony Watt
    Pages 97-120

  8. Making ‘Work’ Matter

    • Naoko Araki, Kim Senior
    Pages 121-146

  9. Positioning Oneself within EFL Research and Practice

    • Anna Popova
    Pages 147-163

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 159-162
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About this book

This edition of Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning (PELT) begins with an examination of bricolage as a way to engage in critical research in TEFL/TESOL teaching and research. The volume considers the quality of ‘encounter’ needed in the global and intercultural classroom. The authors address validity, reliability and an authentic need for research which has at its heart ethical practice. Disenfranchisement of the co-participants in research, which is usually not considered, is reviewed in the volume. The manner in which quantitative methods can be used to deliberate on “praxis” is also explored. Self-reflexive practice is at the heart of EFL research and remains central to this volume. The authors are all praxis based research practitioners and make the work of research accessible, equitable and socially just. This series has at its core the need to state that equitable research is about shared authority and shared power. These nine authors address the periphery and in doing so contest the way the world sees research. The PELT series has a disruptive quality as its raison d’etre and Steinberg et al are asking us to revisit; review and re-assess the notion of our life work as researchers in EAL, ESL, TEFL and TESOL. These nine authors are all global leaders in research inquiry and the provocations offered here are unified in the parading by questioning the more traditional field of research inquiry. The ethic of care and courage is encapsulated in this edition.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Victoria University, Australia

    Mark Vicars, Tarquam McKenna, Marcelle Cacciattolo

  • University of Calgary, Canada

    Shirley Steinberg

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