Teaching English in Missions: Effectiveness and Integrity
Ebook
Overview
Effectiveness and Integrity
English teaching is common in missions today. However, there has been relatively little discussion on what constitutes effectiveness in English ministries. This book aims to foster such discussion. It first addresses issues of concern in English ministries and then suggests criteria for effectiveness, considerations in teacher preparation, and models for the teaching of English in missions.
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1- If you can speak English you can teach it: true or False?
Chapter 2- “First, do no harm”: An English teacher’s Hippocratic oath
Chapter 3- English ministries with integrity: Four types
Chapter 4- English teachers with integrity: Three requirements
Chapter 5- English teaching formats: Four models
Chapter 6- English classes: Three building blocks
Chapter 7- Putting it all together: Making decisions about English ministry
Appendices
A: English for Life Curriculum
B: A topical course syllabus
C: A sample lesson plan
D: Organizing an English camp
E: Resources
F: Acronyms used in English teaching
Jan Dormer’s Introduction to Teaching English in Missions is well grounded both in the English teaching profession and the Christian faith. It makes an effective case for the importance of professionalism and integrity among missionaries who teach English, and also provides a great deal of useful guidance and practical information for missionary English teachers. Last and definitely not least, it does all of this in a very lucid and reader-friendly style.
-Don Snow, PhD, author of English Teaching as Christian Mission: An Applied Theology and More Than a Native Speaker: An Introduction to Teaching English Abroad
Exceptional! For any mission organization, or for anyone using or hoping to use the teaching of English as a second or foreign language as a means of ministry opportunity, this book is a must-read. Jan Dormer has brought sense and sensitivity to a great ministry tool, protecting us from ministry abuse so common among those of us who rush in with zeal without knowledge. Jan dares to raise the level of expectation in missionary sensitivity, integrity, transparency, proficiency, authenticity, and competency. She makes me want to sign up! With an unequaled mix of the academic, missionary experience, and practical help, this book is bound to lead the way as the number-one textbook for this great endeavor.
-Hubert Harriman, president, World Gospel Mission
- Title: Teaching English in Missions: Effectiveness and Integrity
- Author: Jan Edwards Dormer
- Publisher: William Carey Library
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 184
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781645080725, 9780878085262, 0878085262, 1645080722
- Resource ID: LLS:9781645080725
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T17:15:39Z
Dr. Jan Dormer experienced language learning as an MK growing up in Brazil and as an adult serving in Indonesia. She adds to her own experiences a thirty-year career in TESOL and SAL, teaching language learners of all ages in many different contexts. She received an EdD in Language Education from the University of Toronto. Jan is the author of Teaching English in Missions and the co-author of Teaching English in Missions and Teaching English for Reconciliation. She is professor of TESOL in the graduate program at Messiah University. Jan loves to hear from readers, and can be contacted at jan.dormer@gmail.com.