Questioning the Native Speaker Construct in Teacher Education

Enabling Multilingual Identities and Decolonial Language Pedagogies
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-03764-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 435 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Language Education

Questioning the construction of the ‘native speaker’ as an authority and ideal in language education, this book offers a critical and accessible engagement with research problematising notions of ‘nativeness’ while emphasising the interactional and ongoing nature of identity construction.

Crossing disciplinary and geographical boundaries, this book interweaves theoretical frameworks from diverse disciplines, examining and challenging language ideologies that underpin and perpetuate systemic inequalities. The author argues that this multidisciplinary approach can help disrupt the fixed identity categories on which the native speaker construct is based, prompting a reconception of how we think about ourselves in relation to others and in relation to our position in the world. Chapters present different teacher models as well as specific strategies and activities to stimulate debate and encourage approaches which prioritise pedagogical competence over the native speaker ideal.

Providing an accessible overview of complex issues along with strategic action in teacher education, this book will be of interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of language education, applied linguistics, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), and teacher education. Teacher educators and language teachers should also benefit from this volume.

Conclusion of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Waddington, Julie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part 1. Theoretical frameworks

 1. Teacher self-efficacy, wellbeing, and other critical issues

 2. Multilingual identities

 3. From monolingual teaching ideologies to translanguaging spaces

 4. Raciolinguistic perspectives on ‘nativeness’

 5. ‘Nativelikeness’ as a motivational driver

Part 2. Practical applications

 6. Promoting teacher self-efficacy, wellbeing, and other critical issues

 7. Identifying as multilingual

 8. Questioning monolingual teaching ideologies, enabling translanguaging spaces

 9. Exposing raciolinguistic perspectives on ‘nativeness’

10. Reconsidering ‘nativelikeness’ as a motivational driver

 Concluding thoughts

Über Autor(innen)

Julie Waddington is Serra Húnter Associate Professor in Language and Literature Education at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.