English Language Teachers on the Discursive Faultlines

Identities, Ideologies and Pedagogies

By: Assist. Prof. Julia Menard-Warwick

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eBook | 29 November 2013 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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Julia Menard-Warwick offers here a rich trove of testimonies by English teachers in Chile and California on their experiences trying to make English as a global language locally relevant and pedagogically appropriate for their students. In this book, the ideologically ambiguous power of TESOL is addressed with nuance and empathy within a Bakhtinian framework that calls for more 'dialogism' and for a 'cultural pedagogy' that goes beyond mere communicative language teaching.