Humanizing Language Teaching and Teacher Education in Transnational Spaces: Critical Perspectives on Identities, Pedagogies, and Research

This collection sits at the intersection of transnationalism, queer studies, and feminist theories, bringing refreshing perspectives on transnational language teaching and teacher education by amplifying voices from the Global South. Spanning the transnational ELT field, its pedagogical, theoretical, and empirical inquiries cover K-16+ settings across Australasia, Africa, and the Americas. Creating a critical and dialogic space to re-think the challenges and agency, struggles and growth of language teachers’ transnational identities, contributors cover topics from translingual identity and critical pedagogy to diversity advocacy and collaborative policymaking. As well as restorying the transnational identities of language teachers and teacher educations from the global south, this is a collective study in disrupting binarisms and rehumanizing pedagogy and research in global academia.

Rashi Jain is Professor of English Language for Academic Purposes in the Department of ELAP, Linguistics and Communication Studies at Montgomery College, USA. She has published her research in practitioner-oriented journals including the TESOL Journal, contributed to edited volumes, and edited (with Bedrettin Yazan and Suresh Canagarajah) Transnational Identities and Practices in English Language Teaching: Critical Inquiries from Diverse Practitioners and Transnational Research in English Language Teaching: Critical Practices and Identities.

Bedrettin Yazan is Associate Professor at the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.

Julian Chen is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics/TESOL and Course Coordinator of Asian Languages at Curtin University, Australia. Julian's research synergizes technology-mediated task-based language teaching, inclusive education, critical pedagogy, and participatory action research. Julian is the Editor of Emergency Remote Teaching and Beyond: Voices from World Language Teachers and Researchers (2021), and author of Second Life as a Virtual Playground for Language Education: A Practical Guide for Teaching and Research (2022).

Ethan Trinh is a Vietnamese, queer, multilingual leader, researcher, and teacher educator and currently serves as an Associate Director at Atlanta Global Studies Center, USA. Ethan has published five volumes that focus on critical storytelling, teacher's well-being, and doctoral students' emotions and identities, and queer allyship.