This edited collection provides a comprehensive and locally situated understanding of English language teaching from the perspective of dedicated and experienced language professionals and researchers in Costa Rica.
This edited collection provides a comprehensive and locally situated understanding of English language teaching from the perspective of dedicated and experienced language professionals and researchers in Costa Rica.
The book uses a series of reflective sections that interconnect theory and practice in a non-English-dominant context in order to inform and transform pedagogical practices. The chapters depict a wide-ranging image of English language teaching and learning in the region, encouraging in-service teachers, TESOL specialists, and ELT scholars to critically reassess, rethink, and relearn teaching and learning as more than a political decision in an educational curriculum.
Ultimately promoting the practice as dynamic, ever-changing, and culturally situated, the book will be highly relevant to researchers, academics, scholars, and faculty in the fields of teacher education, educational research, EFL, and modern foreign languages.
Introduction: A Historical Review of English Teaching in Costa Rica Part
I: Context, Culture, and Identity
1. Challenging Language Ideologies in the
Global South: EFL Teacher Education as a Critical Site
2. EFL Teaching:
A(nother) Chiaroscuro in and Beyond the Modern Nation-State: The Case of
Costa Rica
3. The Need for a Critical Perspective Into the Teaching of
English for Occupational Purposes Part II: Language Learning
4. Language
Learning Strategies in TEFL: Balancing Theory and Student Instinct
5.
Metacognition in Listening: Tasks That Foster Metacognitive Skills
6. Learner
Empowerment: Reconceptualizing the English Language Learner Through a More
Humanistic and Critical Lens
7. Integrating Technology in the EFL Classroom:
Moving Towards a Student-Centered Approach Part III: Language Teaching
8.
Professional Agency and Identity of English Language Teachers in Costa Rica:
A Call for Decolonizing Action
9. Professional Growth: A Reflective and
Motivational Practice Toward an Endless Journey in Education
10. Designing
Digital Multimodal Narratives in EFL Teacher Education
Lena Barrantes-Elizondo is a Professor of TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers or Other Languages), Universidad Nacional, Sede Regional Brunca, Costa Rica.
Cinthya Olivares-Garita is a Professor of TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers or Other Languages), Universidad Nacional, Sede Regional Brunca, Costa Rica, and a student in the Doctor of Education in TESOL program, the Graduate School of Education, Anaheim University, USA.
