Arguing that every instance of language use, and thus of language teaching, is inherently historical, Menard-Warwick contextualizes English language teaching in Chile and California by discussing the recent histories of both contexts, with special reference to the discursive faultlines of Chile's transitions between dictatorship and democracy and California's politics of immigration and ethnicity. She interviewed and observed English language teachers in some classrooms at a small university in northern Chile and at several community colleges and adult schools in northern California, primarily during 2005 and 2006. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
This book brings the voices of teachers into the fierce debates about language ideologies and cultural pedagogies in English language teaching. Through interviews and classroom observations in Chile and California, this study compares the controversies around English as a global language with the similar cultural tensions in programs for immigrants.