Series: Critical Approaches and Innovations in Language Teacher Education

This open access book argues that language teacher agency is not simply a matter of individual choice, but is also shaped by the complex social, political and educational contexts in which language teachers work. It provides a framework for understanding the complexities of language teacher agency in a wide range of language. It offers practical advice on how to support...

This open access book provides practical and theoretical perspectives for thinking about and promoting activism in language teaching and language teacher education. Featuring work from a range of global contexts, this edited volume showcases the innovative ways language education professionals engage in and embrace activism. Contributions detail practices and pedagogies to foster curricular innovation and activist stances within teacher education,...

This volume looks at the preparation of future critical language teachers in the face of an increasingly multilingual and transcultural contemporary world. This is seen through the lens of the collapse of Nation-State borders that crumble in the face of migration and the intense flow of languages that comes with it. It brings together international research that problematizes, theorizes, re-positions,...

Teacher Education for Global Englishes Language Teaching presents a model of transformative, empowering, and critically oriented language teacher education to prepare English teachers for implementing Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT). GELT’s importance to learners’ needs for communication in the globalised world means that it receives tremendous interest from language teacher educators worldwide, underlining the risks posed by gaps in teachers’...