International Perspectives on Critical English Language Teacher Education

This book showcases how teacher educators from diverse backgrounds, contexts, and realities approach English language teacher education with a critical stance. Organized into nine parts that explore different facets of English Language Teaching, each section opens with theoretical considerations chapters and features 24 practical application chapters.

Written by renowned scholars including Graham Hall, Lili Cavalheiro, and Mario López Gopar, among others, the theoretical considerations chapters offer concise insights into current issues and controversies in the field, point out opportunities for criticality, and discuss implications for teacher education.

Written by critically-oriented teacher educators/researchers from various parts of the world including Brazil, Germany, Morocco, Sweden, Turkey, and the USA, among others, the practical application chapters exhibit various ways to incorporate critical approaches in reshaping current teacher education practices (ranging from critical and queer pedagogy to translanguaging to multilingualism) along with a critical reflection of the potentials and the challenges involved in their application.

Author Biography

Ali Fuad Selvi is Assistant Professor of TESOL and Applied Linguistics at the University of Alabama, USA. He coedited Attending to the Complexity of Identity and Interaction in Language Education (2020) and Language Teacher Education for Global Englishes: A Practical Resource Book (2021).

Ceren Kocaman is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the University of Potsdam, Germany. She has worked with feminist and LGBTQ+ civil society organizations and as an instructor of Academic English prior to her current position.