We are excited to announce TIRF’s latest publication: Research on Teaching and Learning English in Under-Resourced Contexts. This volume is co-edited by TIRF Trustees Kathi Bailey and Donna Christian and is now available for purchase.
This book is the eighth volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English series, co-published with Routledge (Taylor & Francis). It brings together the latest developments in research on teaching English in under-resourced contexts across the world, offering a window into the complex challenges that these communities face. Recommendations from research and experience in well-resourced contexts are frequently not relevant or feasible in different circumstances. Contributors to the book explore local and regional assets and challenges to provide a deeper understanding of the difficult issues that language learners and teachers must confront, and they provide insights to meet those challenges.
With chapters written by TIRF Doctoral Dissertation Grant awardees, the volume addresses the crucial and growing need for research-based conversations on the contexts, environments, and challenges of teaching English in areas of the world with limited resources, low literacy levels, or other constraints. The countries represented in this book are Cambodia, Colombia, Honduras, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Rwanda, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, and Vietnam.
Donna Christian has the following to say about this new book: “We’re so pleased to feature the research of our Doctoral Dissertation Grantees on this important topic. Their work documents many of the challenges facing English education in under-resourced contexts around the world as well as promising responses to those challenges. We hope this will be a helpful resource for the field.”
The volume includes sections on policy connections, teacher preparation, and practice insights. We believe it will be a useful resource for graduate students and teacher educators in language education, ESL/EFL education, and international education, and an enlightening reference for all readers with an interest in language education around the world.
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