Overview

This book offers new understanding of the implications of pluralism and of transnational movements to higher education and the construct of a “native speaker” within contemporary globalization processes. Theoretically, it calls for a revisioned English as an International Language (EIL) pedagogy and a wider acceptance of EIL and of World Englishes. It challenges the postsecondary education sector to change the discourse around language proficiency to one that engages the “pluralism of English.” As for the applied significance, the book contributes to the work on neo-racism which means racism goes beyond color to stereotypic foreign cultures, nationalities, and exotic accents based on cultural distinctions instead of merely skin differences. The book contributes to higher education policy and practice, pushing a revisioning of ESL in conceptual and pedagogical ways, such as designing more culturally oriented curriculum, implementing culturally responsive pedagogy, and valuing the teaching proficiency more than the language proficiency.

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“Xiangying Huo's monograph … tells a thought-provoking story of a non-native English-speaking instructor's experiences working at a Canadian higher institution's writing centre. … Huo's experiences, reflections, and agentic actions documented in this book could be valuable for English teaching practitioners, as they stimulate deeper thoughts on multifaceted challenges restricting racialized English teachers in Canada and provide great examples of how practitioners can strategically adopt agency to address ideological and interpersonal constraints and produce counter-discourses in their everyday practices.” (Liang Cao, TESL Canada Journal, Vol. 39 (2), 2022)“This book addresses a variety of interrelated topics, including native-speakerism, writing centre tutoring, students' perceptions of racialized instructors in higher education, multicultural education, and social justice, which intersect exquisitely in the autoethnographic writing of Dr. Huo's years of experience navigating the Canadian university context. … The book follows a standard format for scholarly works, making it easy to navigate.” (Qinghua Chen, Discourse and Writing - Rédactologie, Vol. 33, 2023) “This book a very valuable resource not only for language teachers, practitioners, and policy makers in the center as Huo has focused on, but also for those in periphery that remain, to some degree, embrace monolingual and English-only ideology. The incorporation of multidisciplinary and critical approaches to study the intersections of power, race, ideology, identity, and legitimacy of multilingual language teacher educator(s) is … the essential contribution of the book.” (Irham Irham, Higher Education, Vol. 85 (3), March, 2023) “This book makes a valuable contribution to studies of critical perspectives on internationalization. When it comes to its geographical and socio-political positioning, it joins others in challenging Canadian universities to do better, to recognise and address racism, to transform support services, and to implement ethical internationalisation that will empower marginalised groups in higher education– and, by extension, Canadian society more broadly.” (Vander Tavares, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, December 17, 2023)

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Dr. Xiangying Huo, formerly an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, is a writing specialist and English language learning expert. She has taught English at the university level in Canada and China for over two decades and has taught writing across the curriculum. Her research interests include writing studies, applied linguistics, ESL/EFL policy and pedagogy, Writing Center issues, internationalization in higher education, intercultural and cross-cultural teaching and learning, diversity and multilingualism, language ideology, and World Englishes.   

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