NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 5 results Save | Export
Gregory Paul Glasgow – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book examines the pedagogical and professional experiences of a transnational group of teachers from the African continent and diaspora who made the decision to live and teach English in Japan. Through a layered analytical framework, it explores how these teachers struggle to negotiate their raciolinguistic identities in contexts that may…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blacks, Language Teachers, Minority Groups
Park, Gloria – Multilingual Matters, 2017
This book is a powerful narrative of how six women experienced their lives alongside their desire to overcome the challenging and empowering nature of the English language. The volume shares who they are as transnational and mobile women living in the midst of linguistic privilege and marginalization. It is one outcome of a research project and…
Descriptors: Females, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
McGarrell, Hedy M., Ed. – TESOL International Association, 2007
This volume in the Language Teacher Research Series (Thomas S. C. Farrell, series editor) presents research conducted by language teachers at all levels, from high school English teachers to English language teacher educators, reflecting on their practices. The countries represented in this book are Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador,…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Spack, Ruth – 2002
This book examines the development, implementation, and aftermath of the U.S. government's language policy for indigenous people from 1860 to 1900. Analysis of archival documents, autobiographies, ethnography, and fiction examines why and how government-sponsored English-language classrooms for Native students came into being, how European…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indian History, American Indian Literature
Madenwald, Abbie Morgan – 1992
This book relates the experiences of Abbie Morgan, who with her husband Ed, moved to the Alaskan village of Kulukak in 1931. Abbie accepted an assignment from the United States government to be the village teacher while her husband was appointed to provide health care for the village population and monitor the area's reindeer herd. The village of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education