A Transdisciplinary Approach to International Teaching Assistants : : Perspectives from Applied Linguistics / / ed. by Shereen Bhalla, Stephen Daniel Looney.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
• MitwirkendeR: Bhalla, Shereen,; Chiang, Shiao-Yun,; Coda, James,; Gorsuch, Greta,; Harklau, Linda,; Kang, Okim,; Looney, Stephen Daniel,; Moran, Meghan,; Pickering, Lucy,; Wei, Jing,
• HerausgeberIn: Bhalla, Shereen,; Looney, Stephen Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

North American universities depend on international teaching assistants (ITAs) as a substantial part of the teaching labor force, which has led to the idea of an 'ITA problem', a deficiency model which is framed as a divergence between ITAs' linguistic competence and undergraduates' and their parents' expectations. This outdated positioning of ITAs as deficient diminishes the invaluable role they play within the academy. This book argues instead for an approach to ITA which recognizes them as multilingual, skilled, migrant professionals who participate in and are discursively constructed through various participant frameworks, modalities and activities. The chapters in this volume offer state-of-the-art research into ITA using a variety of methods and approaches, and as such constitute a transdisciplinary perspective which argues for the importance of dialogue between research and practice.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. A Transdisciplinary Approach to ITA -- 2. The Role of Intonation in the Production and Perception of ITA Discourse -- 3. Co-operative Action - Addressing Misunderstanding and Displaying Uncertainty in a University Physics Lab -- 4. Instructional Authority and Instructional Discourse -- 5. Enhancing Communication between ITAs and US Undergraduate Students -- 6. Examining Rater Bias in Scoring World Englishes Speakers Using a Transdisciplinary Approach: Implications for Assessing International Teaching Assistants -- 7. A Community of Practice Approach to Understanding the ITA Experience -- 8. Situating ITAs in Higher Education and Immigration Policy Studies -- 9. Using Course Logic to Describe Outcomes and Instruction for an ITA Course -- 10. Five Imperatives for ITA Programs and Practitioners -- Index