Practitioner Agency and Identity in English for Academic Purposes (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Ding, Alex; Monbec, Laetitia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides insights into EAP practitioners' identity and agency in varied contexts and field positions.

Each chapter delves into a theoretical perspective (Bourdieu's field theory, Post-humanism, Legitimation Code Theory, Symbolic Interactionism..), and a variety of methodologies, enabling different questions to be explored. Each chapter is also a window into the everyday life of practitioners as they navigate their professional lives, and the specificities of their EAP contexts, the politics and struggles over power, domination, legitimacy, status, ambition and recognition. The authors' concerns and strategies vary and show that the weight of powerful structures and collective habitus is difficult - but not impossible- to resist.

From a socio-analysis of EAP and its narratives of origins, to a discussion on Ethics in EAP and a critique of the Global South label, the reader will explore contributions from Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, the UK, and Zimbabwe.

The chapters reveal a field which is made up of a constellation of worlds, each with its own logic but importantly, a field with no centre. The studies in the chapters are likely to intrigue, inspire, but also disrupt some readers' expectations and challenge their assumptions about the field and its practitioners.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350263246
• Artikelnr.: 69983245

Autorenporträt

Alex Ding is Associate Professor of English for Academic Purposes and Director of Scholarship at the University of Leeds, UK. Laetitia Monbec is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for English Language and Communication at the National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Series Editors' Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction
Alex Ding (University of Leeds) Part I: Mesocosms 1. A Socio-Analysis of EAP
Alex Ding (University of Leeds) and Laetitia Monbec(National University of Singapore
Singapore) 2. Collegial Connections and Ethical Entanglements: An Exploration of the Ethics of Scholarship in EAP
Bee Bond (University of Leeds
UK) 3. EAP Practitioners in the Global South: Participation
Positioning and Agency in the Context of 'Peripheral' Scholars and Scholarship
Namala Lakshmi Tilakaratna (National University of Singapore
Singapore) Part II: Microcosms 4. EAP Practitioners' Identity: From Social Class to Social Capital
Tanzeela Anbreen (University of Bedfordshire
UK) and Samina Ayub (Lahore College for Women University
Pakistan) 5. Trials and Tribulations of EAP Practitioners in Zimbabwe
Tambawoga C. Muchena (Midlands State University
Zimbabwe) 6. 'Be more Pirate': Harnessing the Power of Liminal Spaces in Creating Academic Literacy Practitioner Identity and Agency
Michelle Joubert and Sherran Clarence (University of the Free State
South Africa) 7. Finding Space and Voice: Duoethnographic Exploration of Teacher Agency in EAP
Iwona Winiarska-Pringle (University of Glasgow
UK) and Ania Rolinska (Glasgow School of Art
UK) 8. Respected Teachers or a Marginalized
Stigmatized Profession? An Exploration of UK EAP Practitioner Identity
Sarah Taylor (London School of Economics and Political Science
UK) 9. EAP Teacher Agency in a Digital Age
Blair Matthews (University of St Andrews
UK) 10."Changing Lanes": Balancing between Roles of EAP Lecturer and Researcher in a Teaching Institution towards a Research University
Eric Cheung (College of Professional and Continuing Education
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong) 11. Responding to Students' Disciplinary Writing in a University-wide Writing Requirement: Negotiating Agency through Positioning
Shari Dureshahwar Lughmani (PolyU
Hong Kong) and Svetlana Chigaeva-Heddad (Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong
Hong Kong) 12. Power and the Canadian EAP Practitioner: Multiethnography as Resistance? James N. Corcoran (York University
Canada)
Jennifer J. MacDonald (Dalhousie University
Canada)
Jonathan Mendelsohn and Leonardo Gomes Conclusion: Engaging with Identity and Agency in a Collaborative Project
Laetitia Monbec (National University of Singapore
Singapore)