Critical Issues in ELT

Ruchi Kaushik is Associate Professor of English at Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi, India. She has authored Listening and Speaking XI (2014) and co-authored and co-edited Language, Literature and Creativity II (2013). Presently, she is Associate Editor of FORTELL: Journal of Teaching English Language and Literature. A.L. Khanna retired as Reader in English from Rajdhani College, University of Delhi. He co-edited Research in Applied Linguistics with R.K. Agnihotri. Presently, he is the Coordinating Editor of FORTELL: Journal of Teaching English Language and Literature and one of the Chief Editors of Language and Language Teaching.

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Contributors

Introduction

I. Multilingualism

1. To Teach or Not to Teach Code-Mixed English? Translanguaging Hindi-English

2. ‘Warm Welcome or Cold Shoulder’: Demystifying (‘Positively Noxious’) English in the Multilingual Indian Classroom

3. From a Monolingual to a Multilingual Approach in Language Teaching

II. Critical Pedagogy

4. Critical Pedagogy and English Language Teaching in India

5. Processes and Protocols of Discourse Oriented Pedagogy Towards Resisting Linguistic Imperialism

6. Critical Literacy as a Way of Negotiating Meanings with Stories

7. Making Daffodils Bloom for Everyone: The Flowering of Critical Pedagogy in the ESL Classroom

III. Continuing Professional Development

8. The Dimensions of Continuing Professional Development

9. Learner Feedback as a Tool for Teacher Learning and Continuing Professional Development

10. Data-led Reflection for Self-directed Continuous Professional Development

11. An Action Research Project Exploring Peer

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IV. Materials Development

12. Training Teachers to be Materials Writers

13. Designing Customized ESP Materials: Principles, Procedure and Practice

14. Translanguaging, Spices and Authentic Materials

V. Assessment and Evaluation

15. In Teachers’ Hands: Where Formative Assessment

Comes to Life in Unforeseen Ways

16. Peer Feedback in L2 Writing

17. Giving Feedback to Treat ESL Writing as a Process: Ideas and Challenges

18. Assessment for Development through Portfolios

VI. Technology-aided Teaching and Learning

19. From Black Board to White Board and Beyond: The Role of ICTs in Reforming English Language Classrooms in Tamil Nadu

20. Bringing Digital Literacy into the ESL Classroom: Enhancing Language Learning Tasks using Web 2.0 Tools

21. Design-Based Research for Technology Enabled Language Learning: From Theory to Practice

22. Using Google Classroom as a Learning Management System: An Exploratory Study

VII. Inclusive Education

23. Inclusive Practices: Equitable Learning for All

24. Lessons in Disability: Acceptance and Inclusion