ABSTRACT

This innovative volume showcases the possibilities of autoethnography as a means of exploring the complexities of transnational identity construction for learners, teachers, and practitioners in English language teaching (ELT). // The book unpacks the dynamics of today’s landscape of language education which sees practitioners and students with nuanced personal and professional histories inhabit liminal spaces as they traverse national, cultural, linguistic, ideological, and political borders, thereby impacting their identity construction and engagement with pedagogies and practices across different educational domains. The volume draws on solo and collaborative autoethnographies of transnational language practitioners to question such well-established ELT binaries such as ‘center’/’periphery’ and ‘native’/non-native’ and issues of identity-related concepts such as ideologies, discourses, agency, and self-reflexibility. In so doing, the book also underscores the unique affordances of autoethnography as a methodological tool for better understanding transnational identity construction in ELT and bringing to the fore key perspectives in emerging areas of study within applied linguistics. // This dynamic collection will appeal to students, scholars, and practitioners in English language teaching, applied linguistics, TESOL education, educational linguistics, and sociolinguistics.

chapter |19 pages

Autoethnography as Research in ELT

Methodological Challenges and Affordances in the Exploration of Transnational Identities, Pedagogies, and Practices

part 1|85 pages

Traversing Liminal Spaces in Communities, Cultures, and Languages

chapter 2|16 pages

Across the Atlantic and Back Again

A TESOL Practitioner’s Journey from the Monolingual, through the Bilingual, to the Multilingual

chapter 3|18 pages

When My Professor Tells Me to Write Poetry in My Second Language

A Poetic Autoethnography

chapter 4|13 pages

Invisible Borders

On Being a Ghanaian Immigrant in the United States

chapter 5|18 pages

Dear Eric

An Autoethnodrama of Exploring Professional Legitimacy as a Transnational EFL Instructor

part 2|76 pages

Traversing Liminal Spaces in Academic Research

chapter 6|19 pages

(Re)Imagining Myself as a Translingual, a Transnational, and a Pracademic

A Critical Autoethnographic Account

chapter 7|18 pages

Floating on English in a Rising Sea of Globalization

Liminality, Liability, Transformation

chapter 8|15 pages

Bridge Building Through a Duoethnography

Stories of Nepantleras in a Land of Liberation

part 3|79 pages

Traversing Liminal Spaces of Pedagogies

chapter 10|21 pages

I’m From Foreign

Transnational Identity Construction in the Journey of Being and Becoming an ESOL Educator

chapter 11|17 pages

Towards Glocally Situated TESOL Practices

Collaborative Autoethnography

chapter 13|20 pages

What Do We Bring to “THE TABLE”?

A Visual Autoethnography of Underrepresented Asian TESOL Practitioners in the US