Ambiguities and Tensions in English Language Teaching: Portraits of EFL Teachers

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Exploring the ambiguities and tensions EFL teachers face as they attempt to position themselves in ways that legitimize them as language teachers and as English speakers, this book balances descriptive reporting with a theoretical discussion connecting teachers' local concerns and practices to broader issues in TESOL in international contexts.

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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.

Author Biography

Peter Sayer is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics/TESOL in the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Table of Contents

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

Details ISBN1138809799 Author Peter Sayer Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd ISBN-10 1138809799 ISBN-13 9781138809796 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Subtitle Portraits of EFL Teachers as Legitimate Speakers Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 428.24071 Short Title AMBIGUITIES & TENSIONS IN ENGL Language English Media Book Affiliation University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Illustrations 3 Tables, black and white Pages 240 AU Release Date 2014-11-10 NZ Release Date 2014-11-10 Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-11-10 UK Release Date 2014-11-10 Series ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series Alternative 9780415897730 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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