ABSTRACT
Building on the previous chapters, this chapter brings together key concepts, theories, ideas, issues, and pedagogical practices related to TESOL and the cult of speed in three different contexts: the USA, Saudi Arabia, and Canada. It also reveals the sort of commonalities and differences the current social dynamics of speed are producing and reproducing in those different TESOL settings. Specifically, the key themes that emerged from these diverse qualitative case studies are as follows: (i) commonalities/differences in the lived experience of acceleration in modern cities; (ii) acceleration in academic work-life and the limits of negotiability; (iii) multitasking practices: materiality of speed and job requirements for contemporary TESOL; and (iv) TESOL, speed and fantasy, promise, risk, and fears. Each theme is unpacked in turn in this chapter.
