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Theorizing and Analyzing Language Teacher Agency / ed. by Elizabeth R. Miller, Hayriye Kayi-Aydar, Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Manka Varghese, Gergana Vitanova.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Perspectives on Language and EducationPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781788923910
  • 9781788923927
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 428.0071 23
LOC classification:
  • PE1066 .T47 2019
  • PE1066 .T47 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language Teacher Agency: Major Theoretical Considerations, Conceptualizations and Methodological Choices -- Part 1: Language Teacher Agency in K-12 Contexts -- 3. Examining High School English Language Learner Teacher Agency: Opportunities and Constraints -- 4. 'What If You Don't Have Boots', Let Alone Bootstraps? An ELL Teacher's Use of Narrative to Achieve and Generate Agency in the Face of Contextual Constraints -- 5. Language Teacher Agency and High-Stakes Teacher Evaluation: A Positioning Analysis -- 6. Using Actor-Network Theory to Problematize Agency and Identity Formation of Filipino Teachers in Japan -- 7. World Language Teachers Performing and Positioning Agency in Classroom Target Language Use -- 8. Bi/Multilingual Teachers' Professional Holistic Lives: Agency to Enact Inquiry-based and Equity-oriented Identities across School Contexts -- Part 2: Language Teacher Agency in Adult ESL/EFL Contexts -- 9. English Language Teachers' Agency and Identity Mediation through Action Research: A Vygotskian Sociocultural Analysis -- 10. Problematizing English Language Teaching in China through a Local Chinese English Teacher Agency Lens -- 11. Teacher Authority and the Collaborative Construction of Agency in Second Language Writing Instruction -- 12. Language Teacher Agency: A Critical Realist Perspective -- 13. Volunteer Teacher Agency in a Church-based ESL Program: An Ethnography -- 14. English Language Instructors, Medium of Education and Professional Agency: An Indian Perspective -- Afterword -- Index
Summary: This volume examines the agency of second/foreign language teachers in diverse geographical contexts and in both K-12 and adult education. It offers new understandings and conceptualizations of second/foreign language teacher agency through a variety of types of empirical data. It also demonstrates the use of different methodologies or analytic tools to study the multidimensional, dynamic and complex nature of second/foreign language teacher agency. The chapters draw on a range of theories and approaches to language teacher agency (including ecological theory, positioning theory, complexity theory and actor-network theory) that expand our understanding of the concept, while at the same time presenting various analytic approaches such as discourse studies and narrative inquiry. The chapters also analyze the connection of agency to other relevant topics, such as teacher identity, emotions, positioning and autonomy.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language Teacher Agency: Major Theoretical Considerations, Conceptualizations and Methodological Choices -- Part 1: Language Teacher Agency in K-12 Contexts -- 3. Examining High School English Language Learner Teacher Agency: Opportunities and Constraints -- 4. 'What If You Don't Have Boots', Let Alone Bootstraps? An ELL Teacher's Use of Narrative to Achieve and Generate Agency in the Face of Contextual Constraints -- 5. Language Teacher Agency and High-Stakes Teacher Evaluation: A Positioning Analysis -- 6. Using Actor-Network Theory to Problematize Agency and Identity Formation of Filipino Teachers in Japan -- 7. World Language Teachers Performing and Positioning Agency in Classroom Target Language Use -- 8. Bi/Multilingual Teachers' Professional Holistic Lives: Agency to Enact Inquiry-based and Equity-oriented Identities across School Contexts -- Part 2: Language Teacher Agency in Adult ESL/EFL Contexts -- 9. English Language Teachers' Agency and Identity Mediation through Action Research: A Vygotskian Sociocultural Analysis -- 10. Problematizing English Language Teaching in China through a Local Chinese English Teacher Agency Lens -- 11. Teacher Authority and the Collaborative Construction of Agency in Second Language Writing Instruction -- 12. Language Teacher Agency: A Critical Realist Perspective -- 13. Volunteer Teacher Agency in a Church-based ESL Program: An Ethnography -- 14. English Language Instructors, Medium of Education and Professional Agency: An Indian Perspective -- Afterword -- Index

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This volume examines the agency of second/foreign language teachers in diverse geographical contexts and in both K-12 and adult education. It offers new understandings and conceptualizations of second/foreign language teacher agency through a variety of types of empirical data. It also demonstrates the use of different methodologies or analytic tools to study the multidimensional, dynamic and complex nature of second/foreign language teacher agency. The chapters draw on a range of theories and approaches to language teacher agency (including ecological theory, positioning theory, complexity theory and actor-network theory) that expand our understanding of the concept, while at the same time presenting various analytic approaches such as discourse studies and narrative inquiry. The chapters also analyze the connection of agency to other relevant topics, such as teacher identity, emotions, positioning and autonomy.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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