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Appropriate pedagogy
Professor of German and Foreign Language Acquisition, and Director of the Language Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She teaches applied linguistics and conducts research on the application of discourse analysis to the teaching of foreign languages. Her recent publications include Context and Culture in Language Teaching (Oxford University Press 1993) and Text and Context: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Language Study (D. C. Heath 1992, co-authored with S. McConnell-Ginet)
Lecturer in the Board of Studies in Education, University of California, Santa Cruz. She has worked as an English language teacher and teacher trainer in Vietnam, China, Taiwan, and Afghanistan. Her interests are in the use of discourse analysis as a means of analysing the social context of English language teaching and learning. Her publications include Preparation for the TOEFL (Macmillan 1995), and TOEFL Supercourse (Macmillan 1995), both co-authored with G. Zhong.
The notion of ‘authentic’ language becomes problematic within a framework of English as an international language: whose words and whose culture comprise authentic language? Native-speaker practices do not apply across multiple contexts of use. A more acceptable notion is ‘appropriate language’, but even this term needs to be examined, for what is appropriate in an international context may not be appropriate in a local context. We take the metaphor of the market-place to conceptualize appropriate pedagogy as serving both the global and local needs of learners of English. A market-place is not only a place of business and international idioms, but also a place of local communication and culturally-specific forms of discourse. We argue that the notion of appropriate pedagogy should be a pedagogy of both global appropriacy and local appropriation.
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