The Plurilingual TESOL Teacher: The Hidden Languaged Lives of TESOL Teachers and Why They Matter

by Elizabeth Ellis

This book introduces a new topic to applied linguistics: the significance of the TESOL teacher's background as a learner and user of additional languages. The development of the global TESOL profession as a largely English-only enterprise has led to the accepted view that, as long as the teacher has English proficiency, then her or his other languages are irrelevant.

The book questions this view. Learners are in the process of becoming...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1614515891
• ISBN13: 9781614515890
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"