English Language Teachers on the Discursive Faultlines

Julia Menard-Warwick is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California Davis, USA. Her research interests include bilingual identity development, second language learning and teaching, and narrative. She is the author of 'Gendered Identities and Immigrant Language Learning' (Multilingual Matters, 2009).

• Acknowledgements1. English Language Teachers in Sociohistorical Context2. In Dialogue with Bakhtin3. Language Ideologies in Chile and California4. Representing Cultural Identities5. Intercultural Case Studies6. Cultural Pedagogies7. Teaching on the FaultlinesAppendix 1. Transcription ConventionsAppendix 2. Teachers Information and Schedule of Data CollectionAppendix 3. Interview ProtocolsAppendix 4. TESOL’s MissionReferences

Menard-Warwick's comparative study of English language teachers in Chile and California is consistently insightful and theoretically engaging, particularly in its treatment of Bakhtin and the exploration of dialogue and interculturality through 'discursive faultlines'. This important book is also timely, given current field interest in identity pedagogies and the inner world of language teachers as a key dimension of professional development.