{"id":7128,"date":"2015-02-02T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=7128"},"modified":"2015-02-02T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T15:54:00","slug":"cultnet-2015-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=7128","title":{"rendered":"CultNet 2015 plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tentative title: &#8220;Teaching (inter?)cultural aspects in English classrooms: some insights from my fieldwork at a Thai university&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nRecently encouraged (or indirectly forced) by Richard to come up with a presentation title for the CultNet meeting which will be held in Durham in April as Min has posted earlier. At this stage when my mind is concentrating on (how to start) analyzing my data and drafting my thesis, I think that forcing\/pushing\/propelling myself to work in mini projects which will later contribute as parts of my thesis is a good idea because it will help me find the topics I want to write in my thesis. However, I have asked myself the same question for both thesis drafting and a possible mini project to start with and the question is \u2018What can I say\/write about it now?\u2019 Fortunately, I\u2019m reading a book called \u2018How to write a Thesis\u2019 (Murray, 2011, p.31) and have found that these following questions open the door to what I can say\/write now:<br \/>\n1. What I\u2019m most interested in is\u2026<br \/>\n2. What I want to do with this is\u2026, and<br \/>\n3. The main question that interests me is\u2026<br \/>\nAfter returning from my fieldwork, Richard asked me what I would say now about the Thai ELT which is different from what I said\/wrote before I left for my fieldwork. The first thing that came up to my mind was the topic of the exam-driven teaching. I have a feeling that the main purpose of English language teaching for my participants seem to be that they have to teach students to help them pass exams. This topic interests me the most because when the primary purpose is students passing exams, what the teachers taught were mainly grammar points and paragraph\/essay writing because these were assessed in the exams. Hence, the idea that keeps coming back to me is regarding their views on teaching anything apart from what would be included in the exams. To be specific, I want to find out what the teachers think about the teaching of cultural elements in their English classes.<br \/>\nFocusing on this topic, I\u2019ll look into the data I generated from the interviews I conducted with my main participants specifically the parts which I think are related to the topic. The purpose of this mini project is to explore the backwash of the exam-oriented ELT on the teaching and learning of (inter)cultural elements. I hope that this project will contribute to the intercultural development in Thai universities and the contexts similar to that of Thailand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tentative title: &#8220;Teaching (inter?)cultural aspects in English classrooms: some insights from my fieldwork at a Thai university&#8221; Recently encouraged (or indirectly forced) by Richard to come up with a presentation title for the CultNet meeting which will be held in Durham in April as Min has posted earlier. 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