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“Would you take a pay cut? We're looking for Caucasians”. How whiteness can affect White, Black and Muslim female ‘native-speaker’ English language teachers [PDF]

Heliyon
This article sets out investigate the interrelationships between native speakerism, Whiteness, ethnicity and appearance in the TESOL context. It explores whether Whiteness plays a part in TESOL teachers' recruitment and job opportunities when employers ...
Muneer Hezam Alqahtani
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TESOL at the crossroads: Representation of source cultures in TESOL textbooks

Cogent Education, 2019
This article reports on a mixed-method research into the representation of source culture in an English language textbook series used at a major university in the Arabian Gulf.
Muhammad Athar Shah, Tariq Elyas
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Competing targets in English sibilant imitation [PDF]

JASA Express Letters, 2023
This study investigates imitation of English /s/ to determine whether speakers converge toward normalized or raw acoustic targets. Participants exposed to increased spectral mean (SM) raised SM, converging toward both the raw acoustics of the model ...
Ivy Hauser, Emily Graham, Xinwen Zhang
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Intercultural Communication and Applied linguistics - Extending Horizons: An Interview with Lixian Jin [PDF]

International Journal of TESOL Studies, 2021
At the start of this interview, Professor Jin recounts how she abandoned her ambition to become a physician and ended up teaching and researching clinical linguistics at a British university for 18 years.
Lun Peng (Gloria)
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Postmodernism and English Language Teaching [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2011
This paper aims at shedding light on the concept of postmodernism, and its implications in the TESOL. Postmodern philosophy as a prevalent concept and a hot buzzword in philosophy, science, and art is believed to have influenced the TESOL theoretically ...
Mansoor Fahim, Reza Pishghadam
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Integrating children’s fiction and Storyline in the second language classroom

Education Inquiry, 2021
This article reports on a study in which, for five weeks, the English lessons of two classes of 11–12 year olds in Sweden were based on Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox.
Sharon Ahlquist
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Chinese teachers’ perception of how TESOL differs from teaching EAP

Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
The last two decades have witnessed a prolific increase in academic activity in the study of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). Many teachers who were trained for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) have been required to teach EAP ...
Yulong Li, Lixun Wang
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Omani English as a Foreign Language Teachers’ Views about Participatory Professional Development [PDF]

Athens Journal of Education, 2022
This paper reports the findings of a study that develops a participatory model for TESOL teachers’ continuous professional development (CPD) in Oman. This study used an action research methodology and data were collected using an online discussion group,
Khadija Al Balushi
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The impact of an explicit grammar knowledge course on the development of grammatical awareness in UK native speakers’ pre-service TESOL education

Literacy Trek, 2022
This paper contributes to conversations which examine the effectiveness of grammar knowledge courses in native speaker (NS) UK pre-service TESOL education. A three-year longitudinal study was undertaken at a UK university.
Rhian Webb
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Exploring the Impact of AI on the Development of TESOL Teaching Implementation Strategies [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, the application of AI tools in the field of education is becoming increasingly widespread.
Bao Liyin
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