International TESOL Teachers in a Multi-Englishes Community

<p>This book embarks on an ever-expanding array of language academic mobility neoliberalism and accompanying rich scholarly debates. It examines the ways in which international English language teachers in Saudi Arabia's higher education system position themselves negotiate interact adjust make sense of their classroom dynamics and validate their senses of selves and pedagogies in their day-to-day (dis)engagement with their institutions and encounters at work. Informed by rich empirical data from a multi-year multi-site project in addition to other qualitative studies the book reveals on-the-ground complexities involving speaker status language ethnicity nationality race religion sociocultural factors emotion labour work dynamic and professionalism. It promotes thinking beyond normative ideologies on marginalisation the native and non-native speaker dichotomy linguistic racial religious and ethnic (inter)relations and translanguaging pedagogies while also offering new material for original theorisation in multi-Englishes multilingualism local-trusting-local and the limits of negotiability. </p>