EFL Writing Teacher Education and Professional Development: Voices from Under-Represented Contexts

This book explores how EFL writing teacher education is theoretically, pedagogically, methodologically and sociopolitically shaped, given teachers’ unique local contexts and circumstances. It showcases practitioners and researchers teaching in, or studying, geographic areas that have as yet been under-represented in international publications, and it focuses on ways that specific contexts create unique opportunities and constraints on what developing teachers know and do in their work. The chapters prioritize local voices and materials to build a more inclusive and comprehensive picture of L2 writing globally, enabling the book as a whole to both document and further shape pedagogical approaches to L2 writing. Readers will be able to use the unique insights contained in this book in their own classrooms and professional development activities.

Estela Ene is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Indiana University Indianapolis, USA, where she directs and teaches in the English for Academic Purposes Program and the MA in TESOL Program.

Betsy Gilliland is an Associate Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa, USA, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in L2 writing pedagogy and research, academic literacies and qualitative research methods.

Sarah Henderson Lee is a Professor of English at Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA, where she directs the multilingual writing program and teaches in the graduate Rhetoric & Composition and TESOL programs.

Tanita Saenkhum is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA, where she teaches courses in L2 writing, TESOL methods and SLA.

Lisya Seloni is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL in the Department of English at Illinois State University, USA, where she teaches courses in L2 writing, TESOL methods and materials, and raciolinguistics.