Teachers of Multiple Languages

Identities, Beliefs and Emotions
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-80041-451-8
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 213 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 354 g

This book argues that teachers of multiple languages (TMLs) form a distinct group of language teachers and that the study of this largely overlooked demographic group can reveal new insights into how we perceive and research language teachers. The book highlights the narratives of three TMLs from diverse global contexts, examining their journeys in navigating their careers as well as traversing multiple worlds and developing additional ways of being through new identities, beliefs and emotions. The author offers new, globally-relevant insights for language teaching research at individual, pedagogical and institutional level and demonstrates that teaching multiple languages is an emerging transnational phenomenon that cuts across age, languages, countries, institutions and career stages. By furthering our understanding of why and how some multilingual language teachers have expanded and changed their careers through teaching additional languages, the book offers a new perspective on how language teaching careers are changing in an increasingly globalized, multilingual world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ku, Eric K.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Chapter 1: Who are Teachers of Multiple Languages? Naming and Defining the Unseen

Chapter 2: The Current State of TML Research

Chapter 3: Researching TMLs through Narratives and Photographs

Chapter 4: Ann’s Narrative: Accessing Global Dreams as a TML

Chapter 5: Megan’s Narrative: Resisting Institutional Inequalities as a TML

Chapter 6: Haruko’s Narrative: Navigating Native-Speakerism as a TML

Chapter 7: Insights about TMLs

Chapter 8: Future Directions: Rethinking the Language Teachers We Think We Know

Appendices

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ku, Eric K.
Eric K. Ku is a Specially Appointed Associated Professor at Hokkaido University, Japan. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of TESOL Journal and his research interests include language teacher identities, multilingualism, linguistic landscapes and visual methods of qualitative research.

Eric K. Ku is a Specially Appointed Associate Professor at Hokkaido University, Japan. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of TESOL Journal and his research interests include language teacher identities, multilingualism, linguistic landscapes and visual methods of qualitative research.