Ambiguities and tensions in English language teaching : portraits of EFL teachers as legitimate speakers
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Ambiguities and tensions in English language teaching : portraits of EFL teachers as legitimate speakers
（ESL and applied linguistics professional series）
Routledge, 2014, c2012
- : pbk
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Originally published: 2012
Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-236) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Exploring the contradictions of language teaching Setting the scene
Chapter 2: Three English teachers
Chapter 3: Squeezing more juice: Portraits of local English teaching in Oaxacan communities
Chapter 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
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