TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waddington,Julie
AU  - Waddington,Julie
TI  - Questioning the Native Speaker Construct in Teacher Education: Enabling Multilingual Identities and Decolonial Language Pedagogies
T2  - Routledge Research in Language Education
SN  - 9781003188896
PY  - 2025///
PB  - Taylor & Francis, Routledge [Imprint]
KW  - Education
KW  - thema
KW  - Educational strategies and policy
KW  - Society and Social Sciences
KW  - diversity
KW  - equality
KW  - foreign language teaching
KW  - multilingual identities
KW  - multilingualism
KW  - plurilingualism
KW  - postcolonialism
KW  - teacher identity
KW  - teacher wellbeing
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - Questioning the construction of the 'native speaker' as an authority and ideal in language education, this book offers a critical and accessible engagement with research problematising notions of 'nativeness' while emphasising the interactional and ongoing nature of identity construction. Crossing disciplinary and geographical boundaries, this book interweaves theoretical frameworks from diverse disciplines, examining and challenging language ideologies that underpin and perpetuate systemic inequalities. The author argues that this multidisciplinary approach can help disrupt the fixed identity categories on which the native speaker construct is based, prompting a reconception of how we think about ourselves in relation to others and in relation to our position in the world. Chapters present different teacher models as well as specific strategies and activities to stimulate debate and encourage approaches which prioritise pedagogical competence over the native speaker ideal. Providing an accessible overview of complex issues along with strategic action in teacher education, this book will be of interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of language education, applied linguistics, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages(TESOL), and teacher education. Teacher educators and language teachers should also benefit from this volume
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/97908
ER  -