A language education blog by Melissa J. Enns
Welcome to my thesis blogging project! If you have recently followed this blog in response to an invitation to participate, thank you and welcome! If you've been following for a while or just happen to be reading this one post, I'm glad that you're here! To kick things off, I thought it would be useful …
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Recently, I did a presentation on Ofelia García's (2008) encyclopedia entry on "Multilingual Language Awareness and Teacher Education." A few of García's points really stuck out to me as crucial not just to language education, but to education as a whole. With that in mind, I decided to share them along with some of my own thoughts. The …
In my last post (Interacting with Linguistic Capital and Teacher Agency), I alluded to the balance that language teachers must find between working within the bounds of educational policy and making accommodatons for inclusion, perhaps at times pushing the boundaries. I feel that the topic merits further attention.
Like anyone else, a teacher is in part a product of his or her environment. Ellis (2016) emphasizes the "languaged lives" of teachers, in which their own experiences with language education "inform their identities and positioning as teachers of English"...
