The Role of Context in Language Teachers' Self Development and Motivation - (Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching) by Amy S Thompson
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>This book unpacks data from conversations with bi-/multilingual EFL teachers to provide insights into the formation of ideal teacher selves. The author discusses the complexities surrounding the development of the teachers' selves and motivation, as well as their intertwinement with the sociopolitical realities of their individual contexts.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This book unpacks data from conversations with non-native speaker EFL teachers from understudied contexts - Argentina, Egypt, Estonia, Senegal, Turkey, Ukraine and Vietnam - to provide insights into the formation of ideal teacher selves. The author discusses the complexities surrounding the development of the teachers' self and motivation, as well as their intertwinement with the sociopolitical realities of their individual contexts. The work reveals how these realities, and the specific social interactions that occur therein, influence the language learning and teaching processes and it challenges the notions of the native/non-native speaker status. Considering the multilingual settings of the teachers, the integration of the politics of language learning and teaching is a fresh approach to work in motivation, and is an expansion of Ushioda's (2009) person-in-context approach.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>This book provides a detailed account of the development of a language teacher self and motivation in multilingual countries, which also informs us of the dynamic interaction, interconnection, and interdependence between teachers and contexts; and offers future research directions, such as the learning experience of the L2MSS and the interplay of dual identities (the learner and the teacher). Therefore, I would recommend the book to researchers and language teachers who endeavor to both decipher and explore the relationship between language teacher selves and contexts.</p>--Wenxiu Chu, Northeast Normal University, China "System 101 (2021)"<br><br><p>This monograph is thought-provoking in that it delves deeply into the professional and academic trajectories of<br /> EFL teachers who come from diverse sociopolitical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral backgrounds. Furthermore, the qualitative data were collected from teachers from seven countries which were underappreciated in the literature, so the findings can be novel and insightful.</p>--Jieping Xu, Chaohu University, Hefei, China "Frontiers in Psychology, Volume 12, July 2021"<br><br>Amy S. Thompson takes us on a dialectical journey between self and context as it informs being and becoming a multilingual user/teacher and leaves us with a myriad of questions, future directions, and implications to ponder in a world plagued by institutional racism, systemic inequalities, and professional discrimination.-- "Ali Fuad Selvi, Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus, Turkey"<br><br>Focusing on EFL teachers who are not first language speakers of English and who work in diverse cultural settings, this book brings together richly illuminating insights into their motivations, experiences and professional development. As Thompson's analysis shows, teachers' lives, contexts and perspectives truly matter, and her account makes for compelling reading.-- "Ema Ushioda, University of Warwick, UK"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Amy S. Thompson is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Department Chair of World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at West Virginia University, USA. Her primary research interests involve individual differences in SLA and their interaction with multilingualism. She is co-editor, with Ursula Lanvers and Martin East, of <em>Language Learning in Anglophone Countries: Challenges, Practices, Ways Forward </em>(2020, Palgrave MacMillan) and has published in a range of Applied Linguistics journals.</p>
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