Essays about: "postcolonial teaching"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the words postcolonial teaching.

  1. 1. Promoting Multilingualism as a Resource in Education : A Minor Field Study on a Senior Secondary School in The Gambia

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för skolutveckling och ledarskap (SOL)

    Author : Melinda Malmström; [2023]
    Keywords : Access to the Curriculum; Didactic Design; First Language; Language of Instruction; Language Domination; Linguistic and Cultural Diversity; Multilingualism;

    Abstract : AbstractThe study aims to explore how students’ linguistic resources are used for learning in a school in Gambia. The study is a field study and was conducted at a Senior Secondary School during January and February 2023. READ MORE

  3. 2. ‘‘Well, thank God I did not have to do that.’’: How Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy Can Be Used To Enhance an Understanding of Postcolonial Theory in the ESL Classroom

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Nadine Noureddine; [2023]
    Keywords : Postcolonial theory; othering; unhomeliness; postcolonial teaching; collaborative learning;

    Abstract : Teachers tend to refrain from using a postcolonial perspective in their teaching of literaturebecause they do not know quite how to approach the task. The purpose of this essay is to remedy such a problem. The argument is built on three concepts: unhomeliness, dual identities and othering. READ MORE

  4. 3. EFL Textbooks - Cultural Gateways?: The Depictions of Outer and Expanding Circle Cultures in Two Swedish EFL Textbooks Aimed at Upper Secondary School and the Correlation of the Depictions With the Steering Documents

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Sarah Liljeblad; [2022]
    Keywords : Culture; EFL; Textbooks; Sweden; Upper Secondary School; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This study examined how outer and expanding circle cultures were depicted in two English as a foreign language (EFL) textbooks aimed at English 5 in Swedish upper secondary school. Moreover, it was investigated to what extent these depictions aligned with the steering documents by helping students fulfil the aims related to intercultural competence (ICC). READ MORE

  5. 4. Postcolonial Literature in Swedish EFL Teaching: : A Didactic Consideration of Teaching Postcolonial Literary Concepts with Examples from Arvind Adiga's The White Tiger

    University essay from Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Author : Martin Svensson; [2020]
    Keywords : postcolonial literature; postcolonial concepts; binary pairs; Othering; curriculum; syllabus;

    Abstract : This study examines what support that exists in the Swedish upper secondary school curriculum and the English 7 syllabus for teaching postcolonial literature and the postcolonial literary concepts of binary pairs and Othering. This study also illustrates how Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008) could serve as an example of a postcolonial novel to exemplify said concepts in the EFL classroom. READ MORE

  6. 5. "...life had been lived" : Gender performance and woman objectification in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP)

    Author : Lucia Hera Culda; [2019]
    Keywords : gender performance; Butler; postcolonialism; Roy;

    Abstract : This essay investigates women’s situation at home and in society, in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, from a gender performance perspective. The essay also explores the pedagogical implications of using the novel in the EFL classroom. READ MORE