Transnational Identities and Practices in English Language Teaching

Critical Inquiries from Diverse Practitioners
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78892-751-2
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 427 g

The self-inquiries in this edited volume exemplify the dynamism that permeates global ELT, wherein English language educators and teacher educators are increasingly operating across blurred national boundaries, creating new ‘liminal’ spaces, charting new trajectories, crafting new practices and pedagogies, constructing new identities, and reconceptualizing ELT contexts. This book captures the diverse voices of emerging and established ELT practitioners and scholars, originally from and/or operating in non-Western contexts, spanning not only the so-called non-Western ‘peripheries’, but also peripheries created within the ‘center’ when certain members are minoritized on the basis of their race, language, and/or place of origin. The chapters address a range of related issues occurring at the intersections of personal and professional identities, pedagogy and classroom interactions, as well as research and professional practices in liminal transnational spaces.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jain, Rashi

Yazan, Bedrettin

Canagarajah, Suresh

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors

Chapter 1. Rashi Jain, Bedrettin Yazan, and Suresh Canagarajah: An Invitation into the Transnational ELT Landscape of Practices

Chapter 2. Sumyat Thu and Suhanthie Motha: Critical Transnational Agency: Enacting through Intersectionality and Transracialization

Chapter 3. Anastasiia Kryzhanivska and Lucinda Hunter: The Person in Personal Narrative: Two ESOL Instructors Teaching Away from Home

Chapter 4. April S. Salerno and Elena Andrei: Dialoguing as Transnational Professional Mothers: Our Intersectional Identities as Transnationals, Parents and Language Teacher Educators

Chapter 5. Tuba Angay-Crowder, Jayoung Choi and Gertrude Tinker Sachs: Three ELT Transnational Practitioners’ Identities and Critical Praxis Through Teaching and Research

Chapter 6. Christina Ponzio, Elizabeth Robinson, Laura M. Kennedy, Abraham Ceballos, Zhongfeng Tian, Elie Crief and Maíra Lins Prado: Unpacking Identities and Envisioning TESOL Practices through Translanguaging: A Collective Self-Study

Chapter 7. Bita Bookman and Luciana C. de Oliveira: 'My transnational experiences shape who I am and what I do': Reflections of a Latina Transnational Teacher–Scholar

Chapter 8. Sujin Kim: An Autoethnography of Trans-Perspective Development Through Translanguaging Research and Practice

Chapter 9. Martha Sidury Christiansen: Ni de aquí, ni de allá: How Technology has Changed the Way We See Transnationalism

Chapter 10. Brooke R. Schreiber: Shifting Roles and Negotiating Returns in Transnational TESOL Research

Chapter 11. Ahmad A. Alharthi: Globalized Writing Instruction: The Multilingual Composition Section as a Fluid Pedagogical Space

Chapter 12. Yi-Wen Huang: 'It’s crazy that we are from very different countries, but we are similar': My Navajo Students’ and my Co-Existing Translingual Identities

Chapter 13. Rasha S. Mohamed: The Inclusion of Culture and Shift Toward Translingualism in My TESOL Classes

Chapter 14. Kristof Savski: Negotiating Boundaries while becoming a TESOL Practitioner in Southern Thailand

Chapter 15. Ribut Wahyudi: A Transnational TEGCOM Practitioner’s Multiple Subjectivities and Critical Classroom Negotiations in the Indonesian University Context

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Canagarajah, Suresh
Suresh Canagarajah is a Edwin Erle Sparks Professor and Director of the Migration Studies Project at Pennsylvania State University. He teaches World Englishes, Second Language Writing and Postcolonial Studies in the departments of English and Applied Linguistics. His early education and teaching was in the war-torn region of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He has taught before in the University of Jaffna and the City University of New York. His book Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching (OUP, 1999) won Modern Language Association’s Mina Shaughnessy Award for the best research publication on the teaching of language and literacy. His subsequent publication Geopolitics of Academic Writing (UPittsburgh Press, 2002) won the Gary Olson Award for the best book in social and rhetorical theory. His study of World Englishes in writing pedagogy won the 2007 Braddock Award for the best article in the College Composition and Communication journal. His most recent publication is Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations (Routledge, 2013), which won the 2014 BAAL best book award and MLA’s Mina Shaughnessy Award. He is a former editor of TESOL Quarterly and a past President of the American Association of Applied Linguistics.

Yazan, Bedrettin
Bedrettin Yazan is an associate professor in the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research focuses on language teacher learning and identity, collaboration between ESL and content teachers, language policy and planning, and world Englishes. Methodologically he is interested in critical autoethnography, narrative inquiry and qualitative case study.

Jain, Rashi
Rashi Jain is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language for Academic Purposes, Linguistics and Communication Studies at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, USA. Rashi has co-edited (with Bedrettin Yazan and Suresh Canagarajah) the recently published Autoethnographies in ELT Transnational Identities, Pedagogies, and Practices (Routledge, 2020) and Transnational Identities and Practices in English Language Teaching: Critical Inquiries from Diverse Practitioners (Multilingual Matters, 2021).

Rashi Jain is an associate professor in the Department of English Language for Academic Purposes, Linguistics and Communication Studies at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. Rashi has published her research in practitioner-oriented journals, including the TESOL Journal, contributed to edited volumes, and co-edited (with Bedrettin Yazan and Suresh Canagarajah) the recently published Autoethnographies in ELT Transnational Identities, Pedagogies, and Practices.

Bedrettin Yazan is Associate Professor of TESL Teacher Education/Applied Linguistics at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Bedrettin has an active research program and has published in Linguistics and Education, Language Teaching Research, TESOL Journal, World Englishes, and Critical Inquiry in Language Studies. He also co-edited (with Kristen Lindahl) the recently-published Language Teacher Identity in TESOL: Teacher Education and Practice as Identity Work.

Suresh Canagarajah is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Applied Linguistics, and Asian Studies, and Director of the Migration Studies Project at Pennsylvania State University. He teaches World Englishes, Second Language Writing, and Postcolonial Studies in the departments of English and Applied Linguistics. His recent edited publication, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Migration (2019), won the 2020 AAAL best book award.