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Resisting ESL at a Hawai‘i High School: Identity, Ideology, and Order at Tradewinds High book cover

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Resisting ESL at a Hawai‘i High School Identity, Ideology, and Order at Tradewinds High

By Steven Talmy Copyright 2027
274 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Grounded in critical applied linguistics and linguistic ethnography, this book offers a sustained account of long-term English as a second language (ESL) student resistance at a multilingual public high school in Hawai‘i. This book explores how “oldtimer” students at Tradewinds High contest, disrupt, and inadvertently reproduce institutionally enacted productions of ESL through strategic and... Read more

Chapter 1. Language, Legitimacy, and the Production of ESL,Part I: The Structural Productions of ESL, Chapter 2. Constructing the Other in ESL Curriculum and Pedagogy, Chapter 3. Making Better Americans: The Banality of Nationalism in ESL, Part II: The Local ESL Community of Practice, Chapter 4. The Contours of a Community of Practice, Chapter 5. Regrading ESL: Interviewing the Local ESL Community of Practice, Chapter 6. Doing Not Learning: Curriculum Refusal as Interactional Practice, Chapter 7. Parodies of the Other: Tactical Translanguaging and the Performance of FOB, Chapter 8. Talking Hawaiian Style: Authenticating ‘Local’ in ESL-A, Chapter 9. Youth from Micronesia and the Local ESL Community Of Practice, Part III: Metacommentary, Chapter 10. A Politics of Knowing: Conjunctures of Presence, Practice, and Power, Chapter 11. Time, Distance, and Return: Implications, References, Index

 

Biography

Steven Talmy is Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

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