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Ambiguities and Tensions in English Language Teaching

Portraits of EFL Teachers as Legitimate Speakers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

AvPeter Sayer,USA) Sayer, Peter (University of Texas at San Antonio

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The central theme of this book is the ambiguities and tensions teachers face as they attempt to position themselves in ways that legitimize them as language teachers, and as English speakers. Focusing on three EFL teachers and their schools in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, it documents how ordinary practices of language educators are shaped by their social context, and examines the roles, identities, and ideologies that teachers create in order to navigate and negotiate their specific context. It is unique in bringing together several current theoretical and methodological developments in TESOL and applied linguistics: the performance of language ideologies and identities, critical TESOL pedagogy and research, and ethnographic methods in research on language learning and teaching. Balancing and blending descriptive reporting of the teachers and their contexts with a theoretical discussion which connects their local concerns and practices to broader issues in TESOL in international contexts, it allows readers to appreciate the subtle complexities that give rise to the “tensions and ambiguities” in EFL teachers’ professional lives.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-06-12
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt498 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
Antal sidor258
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780415897730

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Chapter 1: Exploring the contradictions of language teaching Setting the sceneChapter 2: Three English teachersChapter 3: Squeezing more juice: Portraits of local English teaching in Oaxacan communitiesChapter 4: Legitimacy, symbolic competence, and teaching English Chapter 5: So they can defend themselves a little: The meanings and contradictions of teaching English Chapter 6: Hey, take it easy!: Ambivalence and language ideologies Chapter 7: I lasted one day and then I was gone: Performing legitimacy Chapter 8: Conclusions: (Re)legitimizing through tensions and ambiguities

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