Author: B. Kumaravadivelu
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: teaching, language, macrostrategies, methods
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-12-01
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0300095732
ISBN-13: 9780300095739

In this original book, B. Kumaravadivelu presents a macrostrategic framework designed to help both beginning and experienced teachers develop a systematic, coherent, and personal theory of practice. His book provides the tools a teacher needs in order to self-observe, self-analyze, and self-evaluate his or her own teaching acts. The framework consists of ten macrostrategies based on current theoretical, empirical, and experiential knowledge of second language and foreign language teaching. These strategies enable teachers to evaluate classroom practices and to generate techniques and activiti

Author: B. Kumaravadivelu
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Keywords: method, communication, series, lea, post, teaching, understanding, language
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2005-09-07
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0805851763
ISBN-13: 9780805851762

This book traces the historical development of major language teaching methods in terms of theoretical principles and classroom procedures, and provides a critical evaluation of each. Drawing from seminal, foundational texts and from critical commentaries made by various scholars, Kumaravadivelu examines the profession’s current transition from method to postmethod and, in the process, elucidates the relationship between theory, research, and practice. The chief objective is to help readers see the pattern that connects language, learning, teaching methods, and postmethod perspectives.

Author: B. Kumaravadivelu
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Keywords: method, communication, series, lea, post, teaching, understanding, language
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2005-09-07
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0805856765
ISBN-13: 9780805856767

Author: B. Kumaravadivelu
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: education, language, globalization, cultural
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-08-28
List price: $51.00
ISBN-10: 030011110X
ISBN-13: 9780300111101

We live in a globalized and globalizing world that is marked by the twin processes of economic globalization and cultural globalization. In this thought-provoking book, Kumaravadivelu explores the impact of cultural globalization on second- and foreign-language education.  Kumaravadivelu examines in detail how the cultural component of second- and foreign-language education has been informed by the Western notions of cultural assimilation, cultural pluralism, and cultural hybridity. Drawing insights from international and interdisciplinary sources, he argues that they have only a limited and