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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |19 pages
Autoethnography as Research in ELT
part 1|85 pages
Traversing Liminal Spaces in Communities, Cultures, and Languages
chapter 2|16 pages
Across the Atlantic and Back Again
chapter 3|18 pages
When My Professor Tells Me to Write Poetry in My Second Language
chapter 5|18 pages
Dear Eric
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
chapter 7|18 pages
Floating on English in a Rising Sea of Globalization
chapter 8|15 pages
Bridge Building Through a Duoethnography
chapter 9|22 pages
Identities of European-based Transnational Researchers in TESOL
part 3|79 pages
Traversing Liminal Spaces of Pedagogies