30.3916, Books: A Transdisciplinary Approach to International Teaching Assistants: Looney, Bhalla (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:15:15
From: Elinor Robertson [Elinor at Multilingual-Matters.com]
Subject: A Transdisciplinary Approach to International Teaching Assistants: Looney, Bhalla (eds.)

 


Title: A Transdisciplinary Approach to International Teaching Assistants 
Subtitle: Perspectives from Applied Linguistics 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788925532 


Editor: Stephen Daniel Looney
Editor: Shereen Bhalla

Hardback: ISBN:  9781788925549 Pages: 200 Price: U.S. $ 139.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781788925549 Pages: 200 Price: U.K. £ 99.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781788925532 Pages: 200 Price: U.S. $ 39.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781788925532 Pages: 200 Price: U.K. £ 29.95


Abstract:

North American universities depend on international teaching assistants (ITAs)
as a substantial part of the teaching labor force, which has led to the idea
of an ‘ITA problem’, a deficiency model which is framed as a divergence
between ITAs’ linguistic competence and undergraduates’ and their parents’
expectations. This outdated positioning of ITAs as deficient diminishes the
invaluable role they play within the academy. This book argues instead for an
approach to ITA which recognizes them as multilingual, skilled, migrant
professionals who participate in and are discursively constructed through
various participant frameworks, modalities and activities. The chapters in
this volume offer state-of-the-art research into ITA using a variety of
methods and approaches, and as such constitute a transdisciplinary perspective
which argues for the importance of dialogue between research and practice.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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