Building a Culture of Research in TESOL

Jessie Hutchison Curtis, PhD, is an adjunct faculty member in the English Writing Program at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where she works with international students. Her research interests include teacher education in multilingual contexts, practitioner inquiry, and negotiations of identity in linguistically diverse settings. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Multilingual Education, Language Teaching Research, Foreign Language Annals, Critical Multilingualism Studies, and the Journal of Language, Identity & Education. 

Ozgehan Ustuk, PhD, is a language teacher, teacher educator, and researcher currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include practitioner inquiry, teacher identity and learning, classroom discourse, and drama in language education. His works appeared in international journals such as Language Teaching Research, TESOL Quarterly, TESOL Journal, and International Journal of Lesson and Learning Studies.

Foreword; G. Barkhuizen.- Introduction; Ö. Ustuk, J. Curtis.- Part I: What does it mean to build a culture of research in TESOL?.- Fostering a culture of research in TESOL: A critical review and a look ahead. Chiew Hong Ng, Yin Ling Cheung, Weiyu Zhang.- Towards more equitable transnational and cross-cultural teaching-research collaborations in English language education. Mary Shepard Wong and David Myu Htoi Awng Kareng.- Cultivating co-learning in participatory design for translanguaging pedagogies. Leah Shepard-Carey.- Maintaining our integrity as teachers and human beings": How a dialogic research partnership fostered the agency and advocacy of early career teachers. Megan Madigan Peercy.- Part II: How are collaborations and communities building a culture of research globally?.- RICELT: Bringing together an inclusive TESOL research community in Chile. Gloria Romero.- Collaborative negotiations of language, power, and teacher identity in six voices. Laura M. Kennedy, Clarque Brown, Janet Hernandez, Isabel Moua, Nathan Stables, Taylor M. Williams.- Understanding the teaching-research nexus in the Saudi EFL context: Insights from an intercultural language teaching project. Umar Alharbi, Erhan Aslan.- "We are learning so much together!": A teaching-research collaboration. Elena Andrei, Rebekah Harper.- Building cross-cultural collaborations: The case of an action research project in Japan, China, and Spain. Martin Parsons, Mikel Garant, María Ruiz Rodriguez, Beatriz Martín Gascón.- College writing teachers as co-researchers: Promoting linguistically responsive instruction through collaborative program-wide assessment. Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Mya Poe.- Afterword Anne Burns.