English Education in Southeast Asian Contexts

Sovicheth Boun is associate professor and TESOL graduate program coordinator at Salem State University.Chatwara Suwannamai Duran is associate professor at the University of Houston where she teaches courses in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics.

• Section 1: Nation Building and IdentitiesChapter 1: English, Bilingualism and National Development: The Case of Brunei Darussalam by Noor Azam Haji-OthmanChapter 2: English Education in Malaysia: National Policies and Local Practices by Moses Samuel and Shin Yen TanChapter 3: Motivations for Learning English among Timor-Leste Students: Future-Oriented Identities in the Context of Nation Building by Edward Jay M. QuintoChapter 4: Embers of Hope: Teacher Agency in English Education in Promoting Social Justice and Peacebuilding in Myanmar by Mary Shepard Wong, Zoe Matthews, and Kyawt ThuzarSection 2: English Teaching and Learning in Higher EducationChapter 5: Relationships between Self-Efficacy and Self-Regulated Learning Strategies among English as a Foreign Language Learners in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic by Davanh Thammavong and Hui Min LowChapter 6: Learning English in Higher Education in Cambodia: Students’ Attitudes, Challenges and Satisfaction by Davut NhemChapter 7: Disciplinary Academic Literacy in Singapore’s Higher Education: Re-Thinking ELT by Kooi Cheng Lee and Siew Mei WuChapter 8: Screenagers’ Perceptions toward Mobile Assisted Language Learning in the EFL Context: A Case of Indonesia and Vietnam by Made Hery Santosa and Tran Vu Diem ThuySection 3: Teacher Preparation and Professional DevelopmentChapter 9: Growing EMI Understanding and Skills: An Exploration of Professional Development in Indonesia by Sisilia S. Halimi and Heather A. LinvilleChapter 10: Pedagogy in the Time of COVID-19: Action Research and Teacher Education in the Philippines by Gene Marie Flores, Paolo Nino Valdez, and Leif Andrew GarintoChapter 11: The Impact of the CEFR Policy on In-service Thai School Teachers of English: Concerns and Considerationsby Jirada Wudthayagorn, Kornwipa Poonpon, and Paksiri Panlee TongsenChapter 12: English Proficiency Requirement for High-School Teachers in Vietnam: Voices from Losers by Thi-Hanh Hoang and Chi-Duc Nguyen

This is a must-read book on English Education in Southeast Asia. In fact, the lessons learned from each national context resonate with the experiences of others in the rest of the multilingual world. Collectively, these chapters brilliantly unpack 'English' as a contested phenomenon implicated in nation-building, identity-making, everyday language use, and multilingual education, and locate spaces where it might be taught and learned competently and appropriately within local linguistic ecologies.