The Plurilingual TESOL Teacher : : The Hidden Languaged Lives of TESOL Teachers and Why They Matter / / Elizabeth Ellis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Ellis, Elizabeth ,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] , 25
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 313 p.)

This book introduces a new topic to applied linguistics: the significance of the TESOL teacher’s background as a learner and user of additional languages. The development of the global TESOL profession as a largely English-only enterprise has led to the accepted view that, as long as the teacher has...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of tables
• Abbreviations and acronyms
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. The TESOL profession as a monolingual monolith
• Chapter 3. Three studies of TESOL teachers’ linguistic identities
• Chapter 4. Bilingualism, plurilingualism and TESOL teachers
• Chapter 5. Teachers’ identities as learners
• Chapter 6. The value of language learning
• Chapter 7. Teachers’ knowledge and insights about language and language use
• Chapter 8. Teacher cognition: understanding how knowledge and beliefs underpin professional practice
• Chapter 9. Applying insights about language learning and language teaching from teachers’ own learning experience
• Chapter 10. A survey of the NSW TESOL profession
• Chapter 11. Rejecting the monolingual monolith – the way forward
• References
• Appendix A. List of languages in Study 1
• Appendix B. Pre-interview questionnaire from Study 2
• Appendix C. Interview protocol for Studies 1 and 2 (with instructions for Research Assistants in Study 2)
• Appendix D. Survey questions used for Study 3
• Appendix E. Summary chart of teachers’ biographies in Study 1
• Index