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�...

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