CLASSROOM RESEARCH AND REFLECTIONS ON EFL TEACHING IN NORTHERN BRAZIL:
collected papers
Autores: Nilton Hitotuzi
Research and teaching are arguably part and parcel of the classroom practice of committed educators. In this book, the author presents a panoramic view of his two-and-a-half-year journey through a distance learning master’s programme in TEFL and TESL run by a university based in the United Kingdom. This “voyage” helped him see his classroom as a locus of permanent inquiry into teaching and learning processes. The experience was pivotal for him to shift the focus from his performance to that of his students, and to understand the importance of bringing his students’ learning difficulties to the fore when planning his lessons. Moreover, it made him realise that experimenting with different strategies to tackle classroom problems in an informed way not only enabled him to establish his identity as a knowledgeable other that would assist his students to advance in their studies but also as a co-constructor of knowledge with them. Part of this knowledge has already been shared in the form of papers published in peer-reviewed journals, four of which comprise the bulk of this book. His motivation for sharing the experience and putting the papers together into this single volume is his unremitting desire to encourage other educators living in geographically isolated or politically vulnerable areas of the world to accept the challenge to use their classrooms as a source of continuing professional development. Such an enterprise has the potential to transform themselves, their students and their communities.
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Editora: EDITORA CRV
ISBN:978-85-444-2255-7
DOI: 10.24824/978854442255.7
Ano de edição: 2018
Distribuidora: EDITORA CRV
Número de páginas: 140
Formato do Livro: 16x23 cm
Número da edição:1
NILTON HITOTUZI
holds a tenured lectureship in EFL teacher education at the Institute of Education Sciences of the Federal University of Western Pará (UFOPA), where he is the leader of the research group: Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics and EFL Teacher Education (CELEPI).
He worked as a primary and secondary school EFL teacher for the State Department of Education of Amazonas (SEDUC) for several years. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), where he took up a temporary lectureship for two years. At UFAM, he was the pedagogical advisor for EFL teachers working for the Centre for Language Studies (CEL) for a year.
While he was reading for his master’s in TEFL/TESL from the University of Birmingham (UK), he collaborated in writing and implementing a project on foreign language teaching at the University of Technology of Amazonas (UTAM) where he worked as an EFL teacher and a pedagogical advisor for EFL teachers.
He took up an academic appointment at the Amazonas State University (UEA) before returning to postgraduate school to earn a doctorate in Letters and Linguistics with a focus on EFL teaching strategies and critical thinking development from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), where his studies were supported with a scholarship from the State of Amazonas Foundation for Research Support (FAPEAM).
Being awarded a postdoctoral research grant by the CAPES Foundation within the Ministry of Education in Brazil, Dr Hitotuzi spent a year in England, where he conducted research on ELT materials development at the University of Leicester under the supervision of Dr Julie Norton. The attempt to mediate dialogues between local and global cultures in ELT textbooks is part of his research agenda.
Dr Hitotuzi is also interested in language teaching methodologies, pronunciation, process drama, critical thinking, classroom research and literacy in English to young EFL learners. He is the author of the book DRAMA-PROCESSO: educação problematizadora em língua estrangeira no interior do Amazonas, and has published articles in the area of language teaching and critical pedagogy.
He holds a number of memberships with English language teaching associations including the Brazilian Association of University Teachers of English (ABRAPUI), the Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (BRAZ-TESOL) and the Materials Writing Special Interest Group (MaWSIG) of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL).
holds a tenured lectureship in EFL teacher education at the Institute of Education Sciences of the Federal University of Western Pará (UFOPA), where he is the leader of the research group: Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics and EFL Teacher Education (CELEPI).
He worked as a primary and secondary school EFL teacher for the State Department of Education of Amazonas (SEDUC) for several years. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), where he took up a temporary lectureship for two years. At UFAM, he was the pedagogical advisor for EFL teachers working for the Centre for Language Studies (CEL) for a year.
While he was reading for his master’s in TEFL/TESL from the University of Birmingham (UK), he collaborated in writing and implementing a project on foreign language teaching at the University of Technology of Amazonas (UTAM) where he worked as an EFL teacher and a pedagogical advisor for EFL teachers.
He took up an academic appointment at the Amazonas State University (UEA) before returning to postgraduate school to earn a doctorate in Letters and Linguistics with a focus on EFL teaching strategies and critical thinking development from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), where his studies were supported with a scholarship from the State of Amazonas Foundation for Research Support (FAPEAM).
Being awarded a postdoctoral research grant by the CAPES Foundation within the Ministry of Education in Brazil, Dr Hitotuzi spent a year in England, where he conducted research on ELT materials development at the University of Leicester under the supervision of Dr Julie Norton. The attempt to mediate dialogues between local and global cultures in ELT textbooks is part of his research agenda.
Dr Hitotuzi is also interested in language teaching methodologies, pronunciation, process drama, critical thinking, classroom research and literacy in English to young EFL learners. He is the author of the book DRAMA-PROCESSO: educação problematizadora em língua estrangeira no interior do Amazonas, and has published articles in the area of language teaching and critical pedagogy.
He holds a number of memberships with English language teaching associations including the Brazilian Association of University Teachers of English (ABRAPUI), the Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (BRAZ-TESOL) and the Materials Writing Special Interest Group (MaWSIG) of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL).