Description
For many decades, English language educators across the world have been locked in a paradigm of ESL/EFL/ESD methods that have circumvented the growth of any pedagogical will for Immersion in English (IE) or the Sustained Use of English (SUE) in speech environments where other languages challenge English-in-use and the preparation of teachers of English to facilitate IE or SUE in classroom praxis. There is an opportunity to advance this scholarship from an international perspective to build a distinct post-method pedagogy for English language teaching in the Caribbean and other global teaching-learning contexts.
English Language Teaching in a Post-Method Paradigm is a critical scholarly publication that provides relevant teacher initiated theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in English language teaching that promote English as the tool for global integration and communication. Highlighting topics such as curriculum, pedagogy, and teacher education, this book is ideal for professionals, researchers, policymakers, academicians, and educators.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Paulette Feraria (Ed.)
Paulette Feraria holds four post-graduate degrees with specialized study in English Language Education, English Literature, Literacy Studies and the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages. She is the 1997 British Council John Hornby Scholar for Latin America and the Caribbean and the 2006 nominee with High Commendation in The University of the West Indies/ Guardian Life Premium Award for Excellence in Teaching. More recently she received The Vice Chancellor’s Best Practice Award for Academic Content and Quality in the Caribbean and Latin America. She is an outstanding writer of Language Arts textbooks at the secondary and primary levels and consultant curriculum writer for various language and literacy curricula including adult literacy. Dr Feraria is known for her innovative teaching and intervention programmes on radio and television. She is the Founder and Director of the Media in Education Centre for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and Professional Learning Community for the Scholarship of English Language Teaching and learning (SoELTL), School of Education The University of the West Indies Jamaica where she currently lectures in post graduate studies in Language, Literature and Literacy Education and is pioneering the scholarship of post-method inquiry in the Caribbean. Dr Feraria is passionate about teaching and the mentoring of classroom teachers as researchers.