Arran Stibbe

Arran Stibbe - Featured Speaker @ KOTESOL 2022

Featured Session

TEFL, Culture, and Environment: From Analysis of TEFL Textbooks to Inclusive Pedagogy

This talk analyses TEFL textbooks with environmental themes that were written in the UK and US for use in Japanese universities. The shallow environmentalism of the textbooks, which treats the natural world as a resource and fails to address consumerism, is contrasted with the deep ecological wisdom embedded in traditional Japanese culture. The talk concludes with a discussion of how TEFL teachers can inspire students to draw from their traditional culture and express its ecological wisdom in English rather than just being expected to absorb and repeat western environmental perspectives.

Time: Sunday (May 1) 5:00 p.m. KST (50 min., Synchronous)

  Biosketch

Arran Stibbe is a professor of ecological linguistics at the University of Gloucestershire. He has an academic background in both linguistics and human ecology, and combines the two in his research and teaching. He is the founder of the International Ecolinguistics Association, author of Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology, and the Stories We Live By (2021, Routledge), and was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy for teaching excellence. Arran spent eight years teaching TEFL in Japan and has recently created a new MA in English and TESOL for teaching as a franchise course in Asia.

Select Sites
University of Gloucestershire: Arran Stibbe
Author Interview: Arran Stibbe on Ecolinguistics
Arran Stibbe contribution to The English Connection (Spring, 2022) 

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