1st Edition
Ambiguities and Tensions in English Language Teaching Portraits of EFL Teachers as Legitimate Speakers
Chapter 1: Exploring the contradictions of language teaching Setting the scene
Chapter 2: Three English teachers
Chapter 3: Squeezing more juice: Portraits of local English teaching in Oaxacan communities
Chapter 4: Legitimacy, symbolic competence, and teaching English
Chapter 5: So they can defend themselves a little: The meanings and contradictions of
teaching English
Chapter 6: Hey, take it easy!: Ambivalence and language ideologies
Chapter 7: I lasted one day and then I was gone: Performing legitimacy
Chapter 8: Conclusions: (Re)legitimizing through tensions and ambiguities
Biography
Peter Sayer is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics/TESOL in the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
