International TESOL Teachers in a Multi-Englishes Community

Mobility, On-the-Ground Realities and the Limits of Negotiability
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80041-546-1
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 233 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 384 g

This book embarks on an ever-expanding array of language, academic mobility, neoliberalism, and accompanying rich scholarly debates. It examines the ways in which international English language teachers in Saudi Arabia’s higher education system position themselves, negotiate, interact, adjust, make sense of their classroom dynamics, and validate their senses of selves and pedagogies in their day-to-day (dis)engagement with their institutions and encounters at work. Informed by rich empirical data from a multi-year, multi-site project in addition to other qualitative studies, the book reveals on-the-ground complexities involving speaker status, language, ethnicity, nationality, race, religion, sociocultural factors, emotion labour, work dynamic and professionalism. It promotes thinking beyond normative ideologies on marginalisation, the native and non-native speaker dichotomy, linguistic, racial, religious and ethnic (inter)relations, and translanguaging pedagogies, while also offering new material for original theorisation in multi-Englishes multilingualism, local-trusting-local and the limits of negotiability.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnawi, Othman Z.

Le Ha, Phan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Preface: Putting Curiosities in Action: An Uneasy Journey of Exploration

1: International TESOL Teachers: What’s Missing on the Ground?

2: International Teachers of English in the ‘New’ Middle East: Saudi Arabia in Focus

3: Engaging (with) Flavors of TESOL: Mobility, Space, Place, Neoliberalism, Multilingualism and Emotion Labor

4: Unpacking Mobility Drive: Geographical, Personal, Financial, Professional and More

5: Unpacking Often-Hidden Layers of Factors behind International Mobilities

6: English, ELT and Perceptions of Peers and Students

7: On-the-Ground Realities: From Training, Experience and Perception to Actual Classrooms

8: Every Teacher is Different, Every Classroom has its Own Dynamic

9: Sulaiman Jenkins: Examining the (Im)mobility of African American Muslim TESOL Teachers in Saudi Arabia

10: Unpacking Hardly-Ever-Revealed Emotions, Pains and Complexities

11: Abdullah Alshakhi and Phan Le Ha: A Much-Needed Conversation with Native-English-Speaking Caucasian Teachers: Emotion Labor and Affect in Transnational Encounters

12: International TESOL Teachers Working in the Saudi ‘Trust House’: (Re)Conceptualization of Key Constructs

Ryuko Kubota: Afterword

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Le Ha, Phan
Phan Le Ha is Senior Professor in the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam, and in the Department of Educational Foundations, College of Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. She is the author of books including Transnational Education Crossing ‘Asia’ and 'the West': Adjusted Desire, Transformative Mediocrity, and Neo-colonial Disguise (2017, Routledge).

Barnawi, Othman Z.
Othman Z. Barnawi is a Professor of Language, Society, and Education at the Royal Commission for Yanbu Colleges and Institutes, Saudi Arabia. He is the founding editor of the Global South Perspectives on TESOL book series and the author of TESOL and the Cult of Speed in the Age of Neoliberal Mobility (Routledge, 2020).

Phan Le Ha is Senior Professor in the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam, and in the Department of Educational Foundations, College of Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. She is the author of books including Transnational Education Crossing ‘Asia’ and 'the West': Adjusted Desire, Transformative Mediocrity, and Neo-colonial Disguise (2017, Routledge).

Osman Z Barnawi is Associate Professor at Royal Commission Colleges and Institutes (Education Sector), Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. He is the author of books including TESOL and the Cult of Speed in the Age of Neoliberal Mobility (Routledge, 2020).