Theorizing and Analyzing Language Teacher Agency

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78892-390-3
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 447 g

This volume examines the agency of second/foreign language teachers in diverse geographical contexts and in both K-12 and adult education. It offers new understandings and conceptualizations of second/foreign language teacher agency through a variety of types of empirical data. It also demonstrates the use of different methodologies or analytic tools to study the multidimensional, dynamic and complex nature of second/foreign language teacher agency. The chapters draw on a range of theories and approaches to language teacher agency (including ecological theory, positioning theory, complexity theory and actor-network theory) that expand our understanding of the concept, while at the same time presenting various analytic approaches such as discourse studies and narrative inquiry. The chapters also analyze the connection of agency to other relevant topics, such as teacher identity, emotions, positioning and autonomy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gao, Xuesong (Andy)

Kayi-Aydar, Hayriye

Miller, Elizabeth R.

Varghese, Manka

Vitanova, Gergana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Lehrerausbildung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar, Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Elizabeth R. Miller, Manka Varghese, Gergana Vitanova: Introduction

Chapter 2. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar: Language Teacher Agency: Major Theoretical Considerations, Conceptualizations, and Methodological Choices

SECTION I: LANGUAGE TEACHER AGENCY IN K-12 CONTEXTS

Chapter 3. Aliza Fones: Examining High School English Language Learner Teacher Agency: Opportunities and Constraints

Chapter 4. G. Sue Kasun, J. Spencer Clark, A. Jyoti Kaneria & Emmie Staker: “What if you don’t have boots,” let alone bootstraps? An ELL Teacher’s Use of Narrative to Achieve and Generate Agency in the Face of Contextual Constraints

Chapter 5. Amber N. Warren: Language Teacher Agency and High-Stakes Teacher Evaluation: A Positioning Analysis

Chapter 6. Alison Stewart: Using Actor-Network Theory to Problematize Agency and Identity Formation of Filipino Teachers in Japan

Chapter 7. Michele Back: World Language Teachers Performing and Positioning Agency in Classroom Target Language Use

Chapter 8. Patricia Venegas-Weber: Bi/multilingual Teachers’ Professional Holistic Lives: Agency to Enact Inquiry-based and Equity-oriented Identities Across School Contexts

SECTION II: LANGUAGE TEACHER AGENCY IN ADULT ESL/EFL CONTEXTS

Chapter 9. Emily Edwards: English Language Teachers’ Agency and Identity Mediation through Action Research: A Vygotskian Sociocultural Analysis

Chapter 10. Wenjing Li & Peter De Costa: Problematizing English Language Teaching in China through a Local Chinese English Teacher Agency Lens

Chapter 11. Patricia Mayes: Teacher Authority and the Collaborative Construction of Agency in Second Language Writing Instruction

Chapter 12. Karin Zotzmann: Language Teacher Agency: A Critical Realist Perspective

Chapter 13. Xia Chao: Volunteer Teacher Agency in a Church-based ESL Program: An Ethnography

Chapter 14. Priti Sandhu: English Language Instructors, Medium of Education, and Professional Agency: An Indian Perspective

Afterword. Anne Feryok

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Varghese, Manka
Manka Varghese is a Professor in Language, Literacy, and Culture and Chair in Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum at the University of Washington’s College of Education. Her research, teaching, and mentoring revolve around developing anti-oppressive frameworks and pedagogies in language teacher education, especially for teachers of multilingual students, which integrate teacher and student intersectional subjectivities and identities, theoretically and practically. Varghese has published widely on examining these intersections in journals such as Educational Researcher, Teachers College Record, and TESOL Quarterly as well as chapters in edited books and has co-edited a number of edited books.

Gao, Xuesong (Andy)
Xuesong (Andy) Gao is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales. His current research interests are in the areas of learner autonomy, language learning narratives, language education policy, and language teacher education. He is co-editor of System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics.

Vitanova, Gergana
Gergana Vitanova is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida, USA.

Kayi-Aydar, Hayriye
Dr. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar is a teacher educator and an associate professor of TESOL at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on teacher identity and agency. Her publications have appeared in various journals and edited volumes. She is the author of the monograph Positioning theory in applied linguistics: Research design and applications (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) and co-editor of Theorizing and analyzing language teacher agency (Multilingual Matters, 2019).

Miller, Elizabeth R.
Elizabeth R. Miller (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she is Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Programs. Her current research focuses on language teacher identity, agency and emotions and has been published in journals such as Applied Linguistics, TESOL Quarterly, Language Teaching Research, System, and the Modern Language Journal, among others. She has published a monograph and three co-edited volumes with Multilingual Matters and one co-edited volume with Bloomsbury Publishers.

Hayriye Kayi-Aydar is an Assistant Professor of English Applied Linguistics at the University of Arizona, USA.

Xuesong (Andy) Gao is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Elizabeth R. Miller is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.

Manka Varghese is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

Gergana Vitanova is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida, USA.