Transnational Research in English Language Teaching

Critical Practices and Identities
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-78892-746-8
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 247 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

This 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.

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
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).

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.

Rashi Jain is 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 Transnational Identities and Practices in English Language Teaching: Critical Inquiries from Diverse Practitioners and 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. His research focuses on language teacher identity, teacher collaboration, language policy and planning, and World Englishes. Methodologically he is interested in critical autoethnography, narrative inquiry, and qualitative case study. 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.

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.