Narratives of East Asian Women Teachers of English - Where Privilege Meets Marginalization

This book is a powerful narrative of how six women experienced their lives alongside their desire to overcome the challenging and empowering nature of the English language. This book shares who they are as transnational and mobile women living in the midst of linguistic privilege and marginalization.

About the author

Gloria Park, Ph.D. is a Professor and Program Director in the Graduate Studies in Composition & Applied Linguistics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Language Teacher Education and Applied Linguistics. Gloria's teacher scholar interests focus on critical pedagogy, teachers' (auto-ethnographic)/gendered narratives, and arts-based inquiry. Gloria is the author of Narratives of East Asian Women Teachers of English: Where Privilege Meets Marginalization (2017, Multilingual Matters). Her publications also appear in TESOL Quarterly, TESOL Journal, ELT Journal, Journal of Language, Identity and Education, Race, Ethnicity and Education, and Journal of Pedagogic Development, just to name a few.

Summary

This book is a powerful narrative of how six women experienced their lives alongside their desire to overcome the challenging and empowering nature of the English language. This book shares who they are as transnational and mobile women living in the midst of linguistic privilege and marginalization.

Product details

• Authors: Gloria Park, Gloria G. Park
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781783098729
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-872-9
• No. of pages: 150
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 396 g
• Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education; New Perspectives on Language a; New Perspectives on Language and Education; New Perspectives on Language a
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures