1) The sceptical, worried, or critical literature

1982. Rogers, J. 'The world for sick proper'. ELT Journal, 36(3), 144-151.

1986. Coleman, Hywel. Interpreting classroom behavior in its cultural context. Ms. [Indonesia]

1986. Valdes, J. M. (ed.). Culture bound. CUP.

1987. Maple, Robert. TESL versus TEFL: What's the difference. TESOL Newsletter [4/87], 34-35.

1988. Prodromou, L. English as cultural action. ELT Journal, 42(2),73-83.

1989. Nayar, P. B. (1989, March). From Krashen to Ashen: Ethnocentricism and universality in TESOL. Paper presented at the 1989 TESOL Convention, San Antonio, TX. ED 307819. [available in microfiche at Hamilton library]

1989. Ozog, A. C. K. English for Islamic purposes — a plea for cross-cultural consideration. In V. Bickley (ed.), Language teaching and learning styles within and across cultures (pp. 398-403). Hong Kong: Education Dept.

1990. Adaskou, K., D/ Britten & B. Farsi. Design considerations on the cultural content of a secondary English course for Morocco. ELT Journal, 44(1), 3-10.

1990. Berns, Margie. Contexts of competence: social and cultural considerations in Communicative Language Teaching. New York: Plenum.

1991. Robinson, James H. Towards an anthropology of ESL: teaching across academic cultures. In M. E. McGroarty & C. J. Faltis (eds.), Languages in school and society (pp. 151-168). New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

1992. Abbott, G. The proper study of ELT. In A. van Essen & E. I. Burkart (eds.), Homage to W.R. Lee: Essays in English as a Foreign or Second Language (pp. 21-27). Berlin: Foris.

1992. Nasr, Raja T., Segun Odunuga, Eddy Rosseel, Catherine Young Silva (eds). Foreign language teaching and cultural identity. Instituto de Idiomas Yazigi and AIMAV. Sao Paulo and Brussels. P53F674 1982

1993. Brock, Mark N. Made in Hong Kong: an imperialist rhetoric and the teaching of composition. In M. N. Brock & L. Walters, Teaching composition around the pacific rim: politics and pedagogy. Multilingual Matters.

1993. Cangarajah, A. S. Critical ethnography of a Sri Lanka classroom: ambiguities in student opposition through ESOL. TESOL Quarterly, 27, 601-626.

1994. Holliday, Adrian. Appropriate methodology and social context. Cambridge U. P. [esp. Egypt]

1995. Kuo, H.-J. The (in)appropriateness and (in)effectiveness of importing communicative language teaching to Taiwan. UH Working Papers in ESL, 13(2), 21-47.

1996. Edge, Julian. Cross-cultural paradoxes in a profession of values. TESOL Quarterly, 30(1), 9-30

1996. Ellis, Greg. How culturally appropriate is the communicative approach? ELT Journal, 50(3), 213-219.

1996. Kramsch, Claire & Patricia Sullivan. Appropriate pedagogy. ELT Journal, 50(3), 199-212. [Vietnam]

1997. Johnston, B. Do EFL teachers have careers? TESOL Journal, 31(4), 681-712.

2) The native speaker problem

1990 Rampton, Ben. Displacing the 'native speaker': expertise, affiliation, and inheritance. ELT Journal, 44(2), 97-101.

1992 Medgyes, P. Native or non-native: who’s worth more? ELT Journal, 46(4), 340-349.

1992 Phillipson, R. ELT: the native speaker’s burden? ELT Journal, 46(1), 12-18.

1994 Medgyes, Peter. The non-native teacher. Macmillan

1996 Horwitz, E. K. Even teachers get the blues: recognizing and alleviateing language teachers' feelings of foreign language anxiety. Foreign Language Annals, 29(3), 365-372.

1997 Tang, C. The identity of the nonnative ESL teacher- on the power and status of nonnative ESL teachers. TESOL Quarterly, 31(3), 577-580.

1998 Braine, G. Non-native educators in English language teaching. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

1999 Liu, J. Nonnative-English-speaking professionals in TESOL. TESOL Quarterly, 33(1), 85-102.

1999 Kamhi-Stein, L., Lee, E., & Lee, C. How TESOL programs can enhance the preparation of nonnative English speakers. TESOL Matters, 9(4), 1, 5.

3a) English for the non-native teacher (chronological sequence)

Jean Willis. 1981. Teaching English through English. Longman.

Hughes, Glyn S. 1981. A handbook of classroom English. Oxford U. P.

Mary Spratt. 1994. English for the teacher. C.U.P.

Voss, Bernd. 1995. A coursebook in classroom English. Lang. [for Germans]

3b) Teacher education for specific EFL contexts

David Prestcott & Andy Kirkpatrick. 1996. Whose course is it? The diploma in teaching english to speakers of asian languages. Paper presented at the ACTA-ATESOL(NT) 7th TESOL in Teacher Education Conference - Cultural Diversity: Implications for language learning and teaching. Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 30 June - 4 July 1996.

4) General reports and advice (arranged chronologically; not particularly selective but rather, as I encounter them)

M. West. 1960.Teaching English in difficult circumstances. London: Longmans.

C. J. Brumfit. 1983. Language teaching projects for the third world. ELT Docs 116. OUP.

P. B. Nayar. 1985. Education in the third world: an exercise in cross-cultural communication. International Education, 14(2), 26-32.

R. Nolasco & L. Arthur. 1986. You try doing it with a class of forty! ELT Journal, 40(2), 100-106.

C. M. Rubagumya (ed.). 1994. Teaching and researching language in African classrooms. Multilingual Matters.

P. Woods. 1988. Pulling out of a project: 12 tips for project planners. ELT Journal, 42(3), 196-201. {ending a project successfully in 3rd world}

Michael Liggett. 1989. Culture-based explanations of student learning difficulties: an East Asia - Middle East comparison. In V. Bickley (ed.), Language teaching and learning styles within and across cultures (pp. 70-79). Hong Kong: Education Dept.

G. Mosback. 1990. National syllabus and textbook design on communicative principles. ELT Journal, 44(1), 18-24. [Sri Lanka]

D. Thorp. 1991. Confused encounters: differing expectations in the EAP classroom. ELT Journal, 45(2), 108-118. [China]

Sandra L. McKay. 1992. Teaching English Overseas: an introduction. Oxford UP.

William Savage (ed.). 1993. Language programs in development projects. Bangkok: Asian Institute of Technology. [copy in Reading Room]

I. A. Olaofe. 1994. Teaching listening comprehension in large classes. [Nigeria] English Teaching Forum, 32(4), 10-12.

Christina Ng & Eunice Tang. 1997. Teachers' needs in the process of EFL reform in China - a report from Shanghai. Perspectives, [City University of Hong Kong Department of English Working Papers]9(1), 63-85.

5) Journals, series, etc.

RELC Journal

English Teaching Forum

City University of Hong Kong Department of English Working Papers

The annual series of proceedings of the ReLC Seminars [all in the Asia section of Hamilton Library]

6) Country/area specific

Africa

Abdessslem, H. 1992. Foreign language lesson discourse analysis: the teaching and learning of English in Tunisian schools. Lampeter, UK: The Edwin Mellen Press. [P53A24 1992]

Davis, James. 1991. EFL in Niger. TESOL Matters, 1(1), 24.

Oladejo, J. 1991. The teacher factor in the effective teaching and learning of ESL in developing countries: the case of Nigeria. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 12(3), 195-204.

Schleppegrell, Mary J. & Brenda Bowman. 1995. Problem-posing: a tool for curriculum renewal. ELT Journal, 49(4), 297-307. [ELT critical pedagogy in Guinea-Bissau etc.]

Asia

Japan

1987. Kyoaki Nagao. How English composition is taught in Japanese schools. Waseda Journal of Asian studies, 9, 1-14. [Japan]

1988. Eloise Pearson. Learner strategies and learner interviews. ELT Journal 42(3), 173-178. [Japanese executives continuing their English development overseas]

1989. Duppenthaler, C. Learning strategies of Japanese learners of English. In V. Bickley (ed.), Language teaching and learning styles within and across cultures (pp. 90-99). Hong Kong: Education Dept. [Japan]

1992. Sturman, P. Team teaching:a case from Japan. In D, Nunan (Ed.), Collaborative language learning and teaching (pp. 141-161). CUP.

1992. Yukawa, Emiko. Team-teaching and changes in teaching routines in a Japanese high school reading classroom. DESL SP.

1995. Niederhauser, J. South Korea's globalization program: what it means for native English speakers. TESOL Journal, 5(2), 4-5.

1997 Murphey, Tim & Tsuyoshi Sasaki (eds). The medium is the message: Japanese teachers of English using English in the class room: practice & theory (2nd rev. ed.). [Nagoya, Japan]: South Mountain Press.

Korea

1987. Balthorn, Mark & Julie Schneider. Challenges of teaching EFL in Korean universities. TESOL Newsletter, 21(5) [Oct], 15, 18-19.

1982. Cucullu, Lois B. Cultural accomodation in a foreign university classroom. TESOL Newsletter, 16(5), 202-22.

1997. Park, Gi-Pyo. Language learning strategies and English proficiency in Korean university students. Foreign Language Annals, 30(2), 211-221.

1998. Yoo, Hyebae. An action research model of an elementary teacher training program. English Teaching [Korea] 53(3), 125-152.

China et al.

1987. Young, Richard. The cultural context of TESOL - a review of research into Chinese classrooms. RELC Journal, 18(2), 15-30.

1989. Cynthia J. White. Negotiating communicative language learning in a traditional setting. ELT Journal, 43(4) 213-220. [China]

1985. Harvey, P. A lesson to be learned. ELT Journal, 39, 183-186.

1989. Katchen, Johann, E. Teaching English - American style - at a Chinese university. In V. Bickley (ed.), Language teaching and learning styles within and across cultures (pp. 81-89). Hong Kong: Education Dept.

1989. Quah May Ling. The learning activity programme: how you can successfully teach English to low achievers from a non-English Background. In V. Bickley (ed.), Language teaching and learning styles within and across cultures (pp. 553-561). Hong Kong: Education Dept. [Singapore]

1992. Ross, H. Foreign language education as a barometer of modernization. In R. Hayhoe (Ed.), Education and Modernization: The Chinese Experience. Oxford: Pergamon Press.

1995. Jones, N. B. Business writing, Chinese students, and communicative language teaching. TESOL Journal, 4(1), 12-15. [Taiwan university]
 
 

Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand

Coleman, Hywel. 1987. 'Little tasks make large returns': Task-based language learning in large crowds. Lancaster Practical Papers in English Language Education, 7, pp. 121-145.[Indonesia]

Coleman, Hywel. 1987. Teaching spectacles and learning festivals. ELT Journal, 41(2), 97-103. [Indonesia]

Tomlinson, Brian. 1990. Managing change in Indonesian high schools. ELT Journal, 44(1), 25-37. [Indonesia]

Saratha Sithamparam & Mogana Dhamotharan. 1992. Peer networking: towards self-direction in teacher development. English Teaching Forum, 30(1), 12-15.

Myint Myint Thein. 1994. A non-native English speaking teacher’s response to a learner-centred program. System, 22(4), 463-471.

Ronald Mackay, Sally Wellesley, & Etty Bazergan. 1995. Participatory evaluation. ELT Journal, 49(4), 308-317. [Indonesia self-study]

India

Gieve, S. 1994. Review of 'The ELT Curriculum: merging issues' ELT Journal, 48(2), 188-191. [state of ES/FL in India]

Elliott Swift. 1996. A Gujarati Juliet andRomeo: TEFL, theatre, and consciousness raising. [India] English Teaching Journal, 34(1), 12-15.

Middle East

Yaron, Judy. 1989. English in Israel. TESOL Newsletter, 23(5), 15.

Adel M. Salama. 1991. Teaching speaking in sexually segregated classrooms. [Oman] English Teaching Forum, 29(2), 34.

America (the other one)
Brazil
M. J. Lingren Alves & M. E. Knust Silveira. 1991. Teaching students to read [EFL] in Brazilian state schools. ELT Forum, 29(3), 22-24. [Brazil]

Maria Apparecida Guerreiro de Castro. 1992. The effective use of L1 in an L2 classroom. English Teaching Forum, 30(4), 35-36.

Europe

Duff, P. 1995. An ethnography of commnication in immersion classrooms in Hungary. TESOL Quarterly, 29(3), 505-538.

Pacific

Keith Laing. 1992. Teaching literacy in Fiji: the use of oral literature. English Teaching Forum, 30(4), 33-35.

See also chapters in various of the general texts above (section 3), esp. Valdes; and sector reviews in the new Kluwer encyclopedia ed. David Corson, vol. ?

7) Related topics

(a)

EFL teachers often attend teacher education programs in the U.S. so as to learn techniques and concepts which will enable them to improve EFL teaching in their home countries. They should accordingly become familiar with the literature on change and innovation in educational systems, while recognizing the culture specific nature of much of this material.

1: the ed literature in this area, e.g.

Miles, M. B., Saxl, E. R., & Lieberman, A. 1988. What skills do educational "change agents" need? An empirical view. Curriculum Inquiry, 18(2), 157-193.

Fullan, M. 1993. Change forces: probing the depts of educational reform. Philadelphia: Falmer Press.

2: the EFL literature that emphasizes innovation as a practice, e.g.

1984. Richard Young & Sue Lee. EFL curriculum innovation and teachers' attitudes. In P. Larson, E.L. Judd, & D.S. Messerschmidt (Eds.), On TESOL '84 (pp. 183-194). Washington DC: TESOL.

1989. Henrichsen, L. E. A diffusion-of-innovations model for the cross-cultural implementation of English language teaching curricula. In V. Bickley (ed.), Language teaching and learning styles within and across cultures (pp. 470-484). Hong Kong: Education Dept. [based on historical analysis of ELT in Japan mid-century]

1989. M. Breen, C. Candlin, L. Dam & G. Gabrielson. The evolution of a teacher training program. [Denmark] In R. K. Johnson (Ed.), The second language curriculum (pp. 112-135). CUP.

1994. Joy Reid. Change in the language classroom: process and intervention. English Teaching Forum, 32(1), 8-11.

1996. Wall, Dianne. Introducing new tests into traditional systems: Insights from general education and from innovation theory. Language Testing, 13(3), 334-54.
 

(b)

The (E)SL vs (E)FL learning literature, including aspects of the SLA formal/informal learning differences stuff.

e.g.,

1978. Fathman, A. K. ESL and EFL learning: similar or dissimilar? In C. H. Blatchford & J. Schachter (eds.), On TESOL '78 (pp. 213-223). Washington DC: TESOL.

1989. McHugh, Charles. Socio-cultural factors differentiating EFL and ESL environments. In V. Bickley (ed.), Language teaching and learning styles within and across cultures (pp. 293-309). Hong Kong: Education Department.

1990. Berns, Margie. 'Second' and 'foreign' in second language acquisition/ foreign language learning: a sociolinguistic perspect. In Bill VanPatten & J. F. Lee (eds.), SLA/FLL (pp. 3-11). Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters.

1997. P. K. Nayar. ESL/EFL dichotomy today: language politics or pragmatics? TESOL Quarterly, 31(1), 9-37.

(c)

EFL teachers should also be familiar with other relevant literature about their home or host country that isn't concerned just with TEFL, and should have a critical understanding of the home or host culture.

e.g., for Japan:

Benjamin, Gail. 1997. Japanese lessons: a year in a Japanese school through the eyes of an American anthropologist and her children. New York: New York University Press.

Denoon, D., et al. 1996. Multicultural Japan: palaeolithic to modern. CUP.

Duke, B. C. 1973. Japan's militant teachers. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. L68.N535D846

Ellington, L. 1992. Education in the Japanese life-cycle. Lewiston: Mellen.

Harrell, P. 1992.Sowing the seeds of change: Chinese students, Japanese teachers, 1895-1905. Stanford, Ca: Stanford University Press ASIA LB1696.6.C6 H37 1992

Horio, T. 1988. Educational thought and ideology in modern Japan: state authority and intellectual freedom (ed./trans. S. Platzer). [Tokyo]: University of Tokyo Press.

Horio, T. 1988. Educational thought and ideology in modern Japan: state authority and intellectual freedom. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.

Kerbo, H. R. 1996. Social stratification in Japan. (Ch. 14 of Social stratification and inequality, 3rd. edn., 434-471). NY:McGraw-Hill.

Kramer, E. M., & Ikeda, R. 1997. What is a "Japanese"? Culture, diversity, and social harmony in Japan. In E. M. Kramer (ed.), Postmodernism and race (pp.79-102). New York: Praeger.

Lewis, C. 1995. Educating hearts and minds. CUP [preschool & el ed]

McVeigh, Brian J. 1997. Life in a Japanese women's college: learning to be ladylike. London: Routledge.

Rohlen, T. P. 1983. Japan's high schools. Berkeley: U. California Press.

Rohlen, T. P. 1996. Teaching and learning in Japan. CUP.

Rosenberger, Nancy R. 1994. Japanese sense of self. CUP ["challenges simplistic comparisons between western individualism and non-Western collectivism"]

Schoppa, L. J. 1991. Education reform in Japan: a case of immobilist politics. New York: Routledge.

Singleton, J. (1989). Gambaru: A Japanese cultural theory of learning, In James Shields (Ed.) Japanese Schooling : Patterns of Socialization, Equality and Political Control (pp 8-15). University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Sugimoto, Y. 1997. An introduction to Japanese society. CUP. ["the author calls into question the dominant view that Japanese society is characterized by 'groupism and homogenity'"]

Thurston, D. R. 1973. Teachers and politics in Japan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Tsuda, Y. 1986. Language inequality and distortion in intercultural communication: a critical theory approach. Philadelphia: J. Benjamins.

Tsuda, Y. 1990. Eigo shihai no kozo: Nihonjin to ibunka komyunikeshon. Tokyo: Daisan Shokan. EAST P40.T88 1990

Tsuda, Y. 1997. Hegemony of English vs. ecology of language. In L. E. Smith & M .Forman (eds.), World Englishes 2000 (pp. 21-31). Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

and Korea

Kim, Ransoo. 1984. Korean education in research perspectives. Seoul: Jong-Gak.

Lee, C-J et al. 1984. Social constructions of schooling. Korean Development Institute.

Smith, D. C. 1994. Elementary teacher education in Korea. Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappan Foundation.

Martin Jonghak Baik. 1995. Language, ideology, and power: English textbooks of two Koreas. [Seoul]: Thaehaksa. (PE1130K6B3 1995)

Adams, D., & Gottlieb, E. E. 1993. Education and social change in Korea. NY: Garland.

Johnsrud, L. K. 1993. Cross-cultural implications of graduate study abroad: the case of Korean academics. Higer Education, 25, 207-222.

Johnsrud, L. K. 1995. Korean academic women: multiple roles, multiple challenges. Higher Education, 30(1), 17-35.

and China/Taiwan

Bond, Michael Harris (ed.). 1986. The psychology of the Chinese people. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.

Gladney, D. C. 1998. Ethnic identity in China: the making of a Muslim minority nationality. New York: Harcourt Brace.

Jaschok, M., & Miers, S. (Eds.) 1994. Women and chinese patriarchy. London: Zed Books.

Murray, S. O & K. Hong. 1994. Taiwanese culture, Taiwanese society: a critical review of social science research done on Taiwan. Lanham: University Press of America.

Smith, Douglas C. (ed.). 1991. The Confucian continuum: educational modernization in Taiwan. New York: Praeger.

7(d) Other relevant lit

T. Reagan. 1996. Non-western educational traditions. Malamah, NJ: Erlbaum.

M. Weimer,ed. 1987. Teaching large classes well. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. LB1025.2.N456

D. Lawrence Kincaid. 1987. Communication theory: eastern and western perspectives. San Diego: Academic Press.

R. Murray Thomas (ed.). 1988. Oriental theories of human development. Berlin: Lang.

Tu, Wei-ming. 1996. Confucian traditions in east asian modernity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. P.

7(e) Some parts of the culture-learning interface:

Alptekin, C., & M. Alptekin. 1984. The question of culture. ELT Journal, 44(1), 14-20.

Alptekin, C. 1993. Target-language culture in EFL materials. ELT Journal, 47(2), 136-143.

Damen, L. 1987. Culture learning. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley.

Swiderski, R. M. 1993. Teaching language, learning culture.