Internationalizing Teaching, Localizing Learning

Paul McPherron is Associate Professor of English at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY), USA where he also coordinates the ESL program. He is a socio/applied linguist whose research interests involve questions about English language learning and teaching in relation to identity, globalization, and teaching policies, particularly in China and the United States.

• Chapter 1: Introductions: Why study globalization and culture through English language learning and teaching in China?.- Chapter 2: Global and local citizens and the creation of a teaching community at CSU.- Chapter 3: Change, tradition, and moral education in CSU teacher roles.- Chapter 4: “My name is Money”: English names and creative play inside and outside the classroom.- Chapter 5: Individualism, voice, and self-assessment in the advanced academic writing course.- Chapter 6: “It’s like some kinds of skills like swim[ing]. You know it but you don’t use it”: (Dis)connections between university teaching reforms and the lives of recent graduates.- Chapter 7: Conclusions: Moving beyond the enduring dichotomies in ELT.