Overview
- Presents locally-grounded moral and cultural values in respective Southeast Asian (SEA) countries
- Provides new insights into how cultural and moral values are embedded in ELT materials
- Is a practical and accessible guide for language curriculum designers, language textbook writers, and language teachers
- Gives empirical, conceptual and practical grounds for adding moral and cultural values to ELT materials
- Sheds light on valuing locally-situated morality and culture while learning English as an additional language
Part of the book series: English Language Education (ELED, volume 9)
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This volume accentuates how ELT materials can be a mediation of capitalizing on moral and cultural values, which are more locally-grounded in respective Southeast Asia (SEA) countries. It features critical studies on locally-produced ELT materials (textbooks) situated in the following SEA countries: Timor-Leste, The Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand. The chapters, written by experts who know the ELT context of their respective SEA country, critically examine the design and use of ELT materials widely used in local and national contexts. Thus, the volume provides fresh insight into how values are uniquely manifested in language classroom materials. The present text also brings together empirical, conceptual and practical grounds for incorporating moral and cultural values into ELT materials development in such a way that it views morality and culture as a mutually complementing entity. This much-needed volume will be a valuable resource for those interested in the design and use of language materials in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts, such as in the Asia Pacific, America, Africa, and Europe.
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Keywords
- 21st century literacies
- ELT
- ELT materials and values education
- English Language Teaching
- Islamic religious values and English Language Learning
- Materials development
- Tertiary ELT education in Cambodia
- The Southeast Asia context
- critical literacy and ESL
- cultural context of ELT materials
- global citizenship and critical pedagogy
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Situating Moral and Cultural Values in ELT Materials
Book Subtitle: The Southeast Asian Context
Editors: Handoyo Puji Widodo, Marianne Rachel Perfecto, Le Van Canh, Adcharawan Buripakdi
Series Title: English Language Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63677-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63675-7Published: 05 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87611-5Published: 22 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63677-1Published: 27 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2213-6967
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6975
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 188
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Applied Linguistics, Sociology of Education