Decolonizing ELT Materials: A Sociomaterial Orientation

Autor/in	Kim, Miso
Titel	Decolonizing ELT Materials: A Sociomaterial Orientation
Quelle	In: ELT Journal, 77 (2023) 3, S.316-326 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kim, Miso)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-0893
DOI	10.1093/elt/ccad013
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Introductory Courses; Foreign Countries; Textbooks; Colonialism; Language Teachers; Language Variation; Multimedia Materials; Educational Resources; Teaching Methods; Japan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Einführungskurs; Ausland; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Kolonialismus; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Sprachenvielfalt; Bildungsmittel; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	This article adopts a sociomaterial perspective on ELT materials and illustrates how a mandatory textbook is used as a springboard to create decolonizing relations in the classroom ecology. Sociomaterial perspectives view learning as not the transmission but the emergence of knowledge from embodied relations, which shifts the focus from the textbook itself to the relations surrounding it. Based on this shift, this article first provides exploratory questions for teachers to understand the classroom ecology. A?set of example activities in a beginner-level Japanese EFL class follows, which showcase how a textbook published by a global publisher could be turned into a springboard to attract translingual and multimodal materials and meaning-making resources. Learning emerges through the entangled relationships of the prescribed textbook, materials, resources, students, and teachers. The article concludes with practical implications to enrich the ELT classroom ecology. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01