Theorizing and Analyzing Language Teacher Agency -

Theorizing and Analyzing Language Teacher Agency

Buch | Softcover
296 Seiten
2019
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-78892-390-3 (ISBN)
49,80 inkl. MwSt
This volume examines the agency of second/foreign language teachers in diverse geographical contexts. It offers new understandings and conceptualizations through a variety of types of empirical data. It also demonstrates the use of different methodologies to analyze the multidimensional, dynamic and complex nature of language teacher agency.
This volume examines the agency of second/foreign language teachers in diverse geographical contexts and in both K-12 and adult education. It offers new understandings and conceptualizations of second/foreign language teacher agency through a variety of types of empirical data. It also demonstrates the use of different methodologies or analytic tools to study the multidimensional, dynamic and complex nature of second/foreign language teacher agency. The chapters draw on a range of theories and approaches to language teacher agency (including ecological theory, positioning theory, complexity theory and actor-network theory) that expand our understanding of the concept, while at the same time presenting various analytic approaches such as discourse studies and narrative inquiry. The chapters also analyze the connection of agency to other relevant topics, such as teacher identity, emotions, positioning and autonomy.

Hayriye Kayi-Aydar is an Assistant Professor of English Applied Linguistics at the University of Arizona, USA. Xuesong (Andy) Gao is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Elizabeth R. Miller is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. Manka Varghese is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Gergana Vitanova is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida, USA.

Chapter 1. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar, Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Elizabeth R. Miller, Manka Varghese, Gergana Vitanova: Introduction     



Chapter 2. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar: Language Teacher Agency: Major Theoretical Considerations, Conceptualizations, and Methodological Choices



SECTION I: LANGUAGE TEACHER AGENCY IN K-12 CONTEXTS



Chapter 3. Aliza Fones: Examining High School English Language Learner Teacher Agency: Opportunities and Constraints



Chapter 4. G. Sue Kasun, J. Spencer Clark, A. Jyoti Kaneria & Emmie Staker: “What if you don’t have boots,” let alone bootstraps? An ELL Teacher’s Use of Narrative to Achieve and Generate Agency in the Face of Contextual Constraints              



Chapter 5. Amber N. Warren: Language Teacher Agency and High-Stakes Teacher Evaluation: A Positioning Analysis              



Chapter 6. Alison Stewart: Using Actor-Network Theory to Problematize Agency and Identity Formation of Filipino Teachers in Japan           



Chapter 7. Michele Back: World Language Teachers Performing and Positioning Agency in Classroom Target Language Use       



Chapter 8. Patricia Venegas-Weber: Bi/multilingual Teachers’ Professional Holistic Lives: Agency to Enact Inquiry-based and Equity-oriented Identities Across School Contexts  



SECTION II: LANGUAGE TEACHER AGENCY IN ADULT ESL/EFL CONTEXTS



Chapter 9. Emily Edwards: English Language Teachers’ Agency and Identity Mediation through Action Research: A Vygotskian Sociocultural Analysis            



Chapter 10. Wenjing Li & Peter De Costa: Problematizing English Language Teaching in China through a Local Chinese English Teacher Agency Lens     



Chapter 11. Patricia Mayes: Teacher Authority and the Collaborative Construction of Agency in Second Language Writing Instruction



Chapter 12. Karin Zotzmann: Language Teacher Agency: A Critical Realist Perspective     



Chapter 13. Xia Chao: Volunteer Teacher Agency in a Church-based ESL Program: An Ethnography



Chapter 14. Priti Sandhu: English Language Instructors, Medium of Education, and Professional Agency: An Indian Perspective      



Afterword. Anne Feryok



Index 

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie New Perspectives on Language and Education
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 445 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
ISBN-10 1-78892-390-1 / 1788923901
ISBN-13 978-1-78892-390-3 / 9781788923903
Zustand Neuware
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