TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bhalla,Shereen
AU  - Chiang,Shiao-Yun
AU  - Coda,James
AU  - Gorsuch,Greta
AU  - Harklau,Linda
AU  - Kang,Okim
AU  - Looney,Stephen Daniel
AU  - Moran,Meghan
AU  - Pickering,Lucy
AU  - Wei,Jing
TI  - A Transdisciplinary Approach to International Teaching Assistants: Perspectives from Applied Linguistics 
SN  - 9781788925549
U1  - 378.1/25 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit : 
PB  - Multilingual Matters, 
KW  - College teaching
KW  - United States
KW  - English language
KW  - Study and teaching (Higher)
KW  - Foreign speakers
KW  - Graduate teaching assistants
KW  - Training of
KW  - EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Applied Linguistics
KW  - Assessment
KW  - Global Englishes
KW  - ITA problem
KW  - International Teaching Assistants
KW  - Introduction to Applied Linguistics
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - Teaching English as a Second Language
KW  - Transdisciplinary
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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 This outdated positioning of ITAs as deficient diminishes the invaluable role they play within the academy.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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781788925556
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781788925556
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781788925556/original
ER  -