Rethinking TESOL in Diverse Global Settings: The Language and the Teacher in a Time of Change

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Dr Tim Marr (Universidad Icesi, Colombia) Fiona English (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK)

Rethinking TESOL in Diverse Global Settings

The Language and the Teacher in a Time of Change

Dr Tim Marr (Universidad Icesi, Colombia), Fiona English (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK)

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Bloomsbury Academic
07 February 2019

Applied linguistics for ELT; Teaching of a specific subject

Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2020

What do TESOL teachers actually teach? What do they know about language, about English and the ways it is used in the world? How do they view themselves and their work, and how are they viewed by others? How is TESOL perceived as a profession and as a discipline? How can teachers make the most of the available resources? Can global English really deliver what it seems to promise? These are some of the questions explored in Rethinking TESOL in Diverse Global Settings, a book which examines what we mean when we talk about English language teaching and what we understand the job of an English language teacher to be.

Covering diverse teaching environments, from China to Latin America and the Middle East, and from elementary school to university, the authors take a critical look at TESOL by focusing on the actual substance of the subject, language, and attitudes towards it. Through concrete examples from language classrooms, in the form of vignettes and accounts from native speaker and non-native speaker teachers alike, they explore the experiences of teachers worldwide in relation to issues of identity and professionalism, nativeness and non-nativeness, and the pressures of dealing with the expectations with which English has become invested. While recognising the often precarious academic and institutional status of TESOL teachers, the book pulls no punches in challenging those teachers as a whole to become more ambitious in their aims, positioning themselves not as mere skills providers, but language experts, specialists in their subject, members of a legitimate academic discipline. Only then, the authors argue, will TESOL teachers and their work be taken seriously and their expertise recognised.

By: Dr Tim Marr (Universidad Icesi Colombia), Fiona English (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781350033450
ISBN 10: 1350033456
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 07 February 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tim Marr is Visiting Professor in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at Universidad Icesi, Colombia. Fiona English is Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Applied Linguistics at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. She is the author of Student Writing and Genre (Bloomsbury, 2011) Together they are the authors of Why Do Linguistics (Bloomsbury, 2015)

Reviews for Rethinking TESOL in Diverse Global Settings: The Language and the Teacher in a Time of Change

Offers a timely examination of why so many teachers of English can articulate so little about how the language works, and predicts that the days of the unqualified native-speaking teacher 'winging it' in classrooms around the world may be numbered. The greatest rewards will in future accrue to those teachers who possess disciplinary expertise through their knowledge of the language system. The book explores how, in the era of global English as a Lingua Franca, these teachers will not necessarily be native English speakers. * David Oakey, Lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, University of Liverpool, UK *