Description
Book SynopsisThis edited volume contributes to the creation of a comprehensive and a more inclusive understanding of an increasingly complex global ELT landscape across countries as well as across teaching and learning settings. The volume brings together inquiries from language teachers, educators and researchers from different backgrounds in the Global South and the Global North, who use their experiences of shuttling across borders to reflect on the shaping of their pedagogical, research and professional practices across higher education settings. The chapters weave the personal, professional and theoretical in a seamless manner, examining transnational identities and pedagogical practices formed and informed by both communities – ‘home’ and ‘host’ – and include narratives that are not unidirectional. The contributing authors also use a variety of qualitative research methods, along with reflexive writing and exploration of the authors’ own positionalities, to shed light on transnational identities and critique dominant pedagogical assumptions.
Trade ReviewWhat are the insights gained from the multifarious trajectories and lived experiences of English language teaching professionals as they engage in developing critical practices and identities? This rare volume comprises a wide range of transnational research on this important subject. Highly recommended for students, teachers, researchers and teacher educators in English language education. * Angel M. Y. Lin, Simon Fraser University, Canada *
This compelling volume admirably decenters and decolonizes English language teaching research, extends its geographical and conceptual range, and yields powerful insights. Welcome features include diverse voices; broadened perspectives on issues of identity; and criticality throughout. Readers are given renewed hope for the editors' vision of 'a new TESOL landscape – a more just and equitable one.' * Stephanie Vandrick, University of San Francisco, USA *
This is a fine collection of timely contributions to the scholarship on transnational practices and identities in the field of ELT. The editors’ and contributors’ critical explorations into the complex landscapes in global ELT settings set a significant agenda for scholarly activities along this line in the years to come. * Lawrence Jun Zhang, University of Auckland, New Zealand *
Table of ContentsContributors
Chapter 1. Rashi Jain, Bedrettin Yazan and Suresh Canagarajah: A Critical Exploration of the Complex Research Landscape of Transnational Practices and Identities in Global ELT Settings
Part 1: Transnational Practices and Identities of ELLs in the US
Chapter 2. Jungmin Kwon: Understanding Transnational Childhoods through Young Immigrant Children’s Photographs
Chapter 3. Semi Yeom: 'I’m not belonged': Examining Transnational Undergraduate Students’ Sense of Belonging as English Learners
Chapter 4. Hatice Altun: Dubious Battle in 'Otherness': Pride or Shame
Chapter 5. Ufuk Keles and Bedrettin Yazan: Transnational Socialization of a Graduate Student from Turkey: Negotiating Identities, Asserting Agency and Navigating Emotions
Part 2: Transnational Practitioners and Participants in Global Contexts Beyond the US
Chapter 6. Ozgehan Ustuk and Peter I. De Costa: 'Started working as a global volunteer...': Developing Professional Transnational Habitus through Erasmus+
Chapter 7. Tabitha Kidwell: Intercultural Experience and Transnational Culture Education: A Case Study of One Novice Teacher’s Personal and Professional Development
Chapter 8. David Martínez-Prieto and Kristen Lindahl: National Perspectives on Mexican Transnational EAL Teachers: Ideological and Professional Challenges
Chapter 9. Emrah Cinkara: Syrian Immigrants as Transnational TESOL Practitioners in Turkey
Part 3: Transnational Practices and Identities of TESOL Practitioners in the US
Chapter 10. Kyung Min Kim: A Korean-American Teacher’s Journey of Professionalization: A TESOL Teacher Educator’s Identity Formation across Transnational Contexts
Chapter 11. Pei Chia (Wanda) Liao: Two Transnational and Translingual TESOL Practitioners in the United States: Their Capital and Agency
Chapter 12. Min-Seok Choi, Tamara Mae Roose and Christopher E. Manion: Teaching as Transnational Spaces: Exploring the Teacher Identity Construction of International Graduate Teaching Associates of Second-Year Writing Courses
Chapter 13. Willa Black, Danning Liang and Gloria Park: Becoming Critical Transnational English Teachers: A Narrative Inquiry of Fulbright Pre-service English Language Teachers
Afterword
Index
