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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

Author:   Peter Sayer
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415897730


Pages:   258
Publication Date:   04 July 2012
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   Peter Sayer
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Weight:   0.488kg
ISBN:  

9780415897730


ISBN 10:   0415897734
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   04 July 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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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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Peter Sayer is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics/TESOL in the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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