TY - GEN
T1 - Multicultural awareness through English: An opportunity for repositioning TESOL in Greek schools
AU - Ntavaliagkou, Maria
AU - Fay, Richard J.
AU - Lytra, Vally
PY - 2008/11/28
Y1 - 2008/11/28
N2 - Greek society is rapidly becoming more culturally diverse and complex, a dynamic process with inherent challenges and opportunities especially for compulsory education. A newly-articulated discourse of multicultural awareness is evident in the recently reformed Cross-Thematic Curriculum Framework (CTCF). In our area of the curriculum, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), direction is also provided through the disciplinary discussion of new teaching paradigm possibilities reflecting varied purposes for the teaching of English. In Greece, TESOL is typically seen in terms of the Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) paradigm. However, the rapidly increasing multicultural character of Greek society may be better addressed if the TEFL practice were to be repositioned towards what we term Multicultural Awareness Through English (MATE). In this paper, having briefly outlined the TESOL context in Greek state schools, we first outline what is involved in the MATE paradigm and then illustrate how some existing TEFL materials can be repositioned towards this newer paradigm.
AB - Greek society is rapidly becoming more culturally diverse and complex, a dynamic process with inherent challenges and opportunities especially for compulsory education. A newly-articulated discourse of multicultural awareness is evident in the recently reformed Cross-Thematic Curriculum Framework (CTCF). In our area of the curriculum, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), direction is also provided through the disciplinary discussion of new teaching paradigm possibilities reflecting varied purposes for the teaching of English. In Greece, TESOL is typically seen in terms of the Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) paradigm. However, the rapidly increasing multicultural character of Greek society may be better addressed if the TEFL practice were to be repositioned towards what we term Multicultural Awareness Through English (MATE). In this paper, having briefly outlined the TESOL context in Greek state schools, we first outline what is involved in the MATE paradigm and then illustrate how some existing TEFL materials can be repositioned towards this newer paradigm.
KW - TESOL paradigms, multicultural awareness through English
M3 - Conference contribution
SP - 362
EP - 374
BT - CLIE 2008 (1st Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education): Multilingualism and Plurilingualism, Migrants’ languages, Minority Languages, 27- 29 November 2008, Alba Iulia, Romania
T2 - CLIE 2008 (1st Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education): Multilingualism and Plurilingualism, Migrants’ languages, Minority Languages
Y2 - 26 November 2008 through 28 November 2008
ER -