Role of Context in Language Teachers’ Self Development and Motivation

Amy S. Thompson is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Department Chair of World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at West Virginia University, USA. Her primary research interests involve individual differences in SLA and their interaction with multilingualism. She is co-editor, with Ursula Lanvers and Martin East, of Language Learning in Anglophone Countries: Challenges, Practices, Ways Forward (2020, Palgrave MacMillan) and has published in a range of Applied Linguistics journals.

• ForewordPreface1. Introduction2. Senegal: 'We English teachers, we speak English'3. Vietnam: 'English is a privilege for me'4. Egypt: 'Why is he comparing her to a summer’s day?'5. Argentina: 'Learning the language will never end'6. Turkey: 'I’m better than these guys'7. Ukraine: 'I know how my people think'8. Estonia: 'Teachers speak better'9. Final ThoughtsReferences

Amy S. Thompson takes us on a dialectical journey between self and context as it informs being and becoming a multilingual user/teacher and leaves us with a myriad of questions, future directions, and implications to ponder in a world plagued by institutional racism, systemic inequalities, and professional discrimination.