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Although there is broad agreement that preparing global citizens
for the digital age is a core responsibility of educators and
schools, there is debate and uncertainty about how best to prepare
students for this future. Technologies for Enhancing Pedagogy,
Engagement and Empowerment in Education: Creating Learning-Friendly
Environments explores how technology-based learning can enhance
student engagement, performance, and empowerment. This book
provides researchers, educators, and practitioners with insights
from educational programs, classroom teaching, and
theory-into-practice research; places educational technologies
appropriately in their social and cultural contexts; and reflects
upon challenges and problems in evaluating and implementing changes
in the field. It shows how computer-enhanced education can improve
teaching and learning without confusing the increase of computer
facilities with the quality of education.
While there are many books on language and literacy education,
there is an urgent need to provide a book which makes an essential
link between theory, research and pedagogy with a focus on the two
interrelated fields of linguistics and language education. This
book is a timely contribution to the current academic discourse for
such a study. It is a big challenge for lecturers and university
students of educational linguistics to be fully aware of new
developments in the field of linguistics and language education.
This book provides some essential insights and directions which
have shaped innovative ideas, practices and research implications
in this broad field. The chapters of the book are grouped into
three parts with different focuses: theory into research, cultural
and social aspects which influence theory and practice of language
education, and finally pedagogical implications. The book is a
collective contribution of scholars with intensive research and
professional experiences from different countries, levels of
education and global contexts.
This book was published in response to the need to provide a
comprehensive book dealing with the multidimensional complexity of
language and literacy education. This book is carefully designed to
capture three major interrelated aspects of language and literacy
education in a changing and challenging world: to introduces some
fundamental theoretical concepts and issues about the nature and
functions of language, particularly with insights gained from
linguistics and applied linguistics; to focus on language and
literacy education in context; and to deal with social and cultural
aspects of language and literacy in an intercultural context. This
book provides a comprehensive and integrated range of theoretical
and practical insights beyond the limited traditional focus on
language and literacy pedagogy.
This book is unique in the sense that it presents a broad and
dynamic research narrative, which is filled with phenomena, issues
and challenges facing researchers in various disciplines, cultural
contexts, linguistic and ethical discourses. The content of the
book is addressing three overarching research issues: What are the
diverse challenges, opportunities, and limitations different
cohorts of individuals face? Why and how do these cohorts respond
to these challenges, opportunities, and limitations? How, where,
when, and why do researchers interact with these challenges and
what have they learned from their investigations? One of the
strengths of this edited book is, each of the contributors has
explored these three issues from a somewhat unique perspective, but
collectively they provide a rich discourse and milieu around the
purpose of research and how and why it is conducted and interpreted
within a contemporary multimodal context. Across all the chapters
the contributions have focused on the process of researching and as
a consequence there are two recurring discourses identified. The
first discourse relates to conducting the research and involves
topics, such as methodology, ethics, research populations,
assessment, data, and linguistic complexity. The second discourse
is around the researchers, because they are the "lens" through
which their research is conceived, guided, articulated, and
interpreted. For too long now, too many books about research,
particularly social science related research, have been locked into
a narrow discourse around the benefits of either qualitative or
quantitative research methods. While this topic is explored in this
text, it is not dominated by this one, rather artificial dichotomy.
What is exciting about the book is its diversity and the range of
dichotomies that are explored and the range of contexts and issues
that are reviewed. There is a strong narrative quality throughout
the chapters where the voice of the researchers and their purpose
is amplified. The book is of special interest to
research-orientated students as well as to those who want to learn
more about conducting research in a challenging discourse of
diverse paradigms.
The world is becoming more and more intricately multidimensional,
both culturally and linguistically. Language is so deeply embedded
in culture that cultural identity is defined to a great extent in
terms of language. Based on this premise, the loss of one's
language contributes to the loss of one's culture. This is the
reason it is essential to maintain one's linguistic integrity in
order to protect one's cultural identity. This new book captures
the fundamental concepts and issues raised in this context.
The title of this book 'Critical Discourse Analysis: An
Interdisciplinary Perspective' is purposely chosen to emphasise the
interdisciplinary nature of critical discourse analysis (CDA). This
book has the following key features: The chapter authors bring to
the book their diversified backgrounds. They are linguists,
educators, computer scientists, health professionals, and social
consultants. Although they all share a common interest in CDA,
their academic and cultural experiences are different and this
intercultural and interdisciplinary feature provides interesting
insights into the understanding of CDA and its wider application.
Thus, it appeals to a wide range of readers such as students,
educators, researchers, health professionals and others. The book
is divided into three parts to reflect the main interdisciplinary
aspects of CDA: Part One is about some introductory aspects of CDA.
It gives readers some basic ideas about CDA as an emerging field.
Part Two is on CDA across different subjects and disciplines such
as language education, information technology, and heath sciences.
Part Three deals with CDA across cultures. It includes the use of
CDA in examining social and linguistic issues in different nations
and cultures such as Spain, Nigeria, Indonesia, New Zealand. For
those who do not have backgrounds in linguistics, two introductory
chapters on aspects of linguistics and functional grammar, which
are relevant to CDA, are included in this book. They are essential
for understanding CDA.
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