Glocalising Approaches to Learning and Teaching English Voices from Periphery

This volume focuses on glocalization in English language teaching and learning, examining the challenges of its implementation. It describes the innovative practices of multilingual TESOL practitioners from various parts of the world, offering nuanced perspectives on how to glocalize teaching methods, curricula, materials, and teacher preparation. The chapters, spanning different levels of education, weave together theory and practice, highlighting strategies to successfully navigate the complex relationships between global demands and local needs in language teaching and learning. This edited book presents empirical research studies, which together provide the evidence-based knowledge necessary to effectively teach linguistically and culturally diverse students. Beyond academic discussion, this book serves as a practical guide for those involved in teacher preparation, offering strategies and practical applications of glocalized approaches to developing programs for pre-service educators. Above all, the book invites all language teaching professionals to embrace glocalization practices in response to the increasingly plurilingual and pluricultural world in which they operate.

Chaptet 1: Introduction: Reimagining English Language Learning and Teaching: The Shift to Glocalisation.- Part 1: Glocalising ELT Practices and Pedagogies - Natalia Wright.- Chapter 2: Connecting the Local to the Global: Promoting Interconnectedness Within Kuwaiti Classrooms - Reem Al Qenai and Natalia Wright.- Chapter 3: Reflections of Glocalization in Linguistic Landscape: Insights from English Language Teaching Practice in Israel - Brigitta R. Schvarcz.- Chapter 4: Multilingual Pedagogies in Teaching English as a Foreign Language: Practices and Teachers’ Beliefs in Superdiverse Schools - Chiara Facciani and Valentina Carbonara.- Chapter 5: Recycling Chinese Heritage Cultural and Linguistic Learning Opportunities Through Translanguaging and Translation Practices with Emergent Bilingual Children - Ling Hao, Rong Zhang, and Sally Brown.- Chapter 6: Expressing the Home Culture in English as a Business Lingua Franca: A Glocalized Pedagogy - Lucas Peltonen and Zidan Ning.- Part 2: Glocalising Teacher Education and Materials.- Chapter 7:  Affordances and Challenges of English Learner Identities in Glocalized Teacher Discourse - Lynell Chvala.- .- Chapter 8: Glocalized Tensions: Pre-Service EFL Teachers Run into the Monolingual, Native-Speaker Ghost in Brazil - Vander Tavares and Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer.- Chapter 9: Amplifying Local Voices: A Glocalized Approach to Developing ELT Materials in Malaysia - Said Ahmed Mustafa Ibrahim, Azlina Abdul Aziz, and Nur Ehsan Mohd Said.- Chapter 10: Breaking the Safety Net: Towards a Caste-Based Pedagogy in the ESL Classrooms - Vani K, Shuchi Srivastava, and Deepak Kumar.- Part 3: Glocalising Ecological Literacy in ELT.- Chapter 11: Glocalizing Students’ Reflection on the Marine Environment Through Writing - Daniel Xerri.- Chapter 12: Cultivating Ecocentrism Views Through Ecocritical Discussion on Glocal Environmental Issues in English Lessons - Jepri Ali Saiful.- Chapter 13:  Afterword: Towards Glocally-Oriented Future of English Language Learning and Teaching - Natalia Wright.

Natalia Wright has taught for 27 years, in Russia, the UK, and now Kuwait. She holds a BA degree in language teaching from the Teacher’s Training Institute in Russia and an MA in Language Education from the University of Chichester. She has recently graduated with a Doctorate in Education from the University of Glasgow, UK. She is an English instructor at the American University of the Middle East in Kuwait. Her research interests center on transnationalism, glocalized pedagogy, multilingualism, and sociolinguistics.