English Language Teachers on the Discursive Faultlines: Identities, Ideologies and Pedagogies

New Perspectives on Language and Education #35

by Julia Menard-Warwick

This book brings the voices of teachers into the fierce debates about language ideologies and cultural pedagogies in English language teaching. Through interviews and classroom observations in Chile and California, this study compares the controversies around English as a global language with the similar cultural tensions in programs for immigrants. The author explores the development of teacher identity in these two very different contexts, and through the narratives of both experienced and novice teachers demonstrates how teacher identity affects the cultural pedagogies enacted in their classrooms.

232 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Rachael · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is sometimes weird to read your own professor's work but I liked this book. I learned some interesting things about the effects of cultural identities and language learning.