(Re-)Locating TESOL in an Age of Empire

Are TESOL professionals now fairly seen as agents of a new English-speaking empire? Or, if they wish to distance themselves from this role, are there ways of working and living that would make this differentiation clear? An international group of authors put forward their differing proposals for the development of TESOL.

SARAH BENESCH Professor of English, College of Staten Island, City University of New York, USA
CHRISTOPHER BRUMFIT was Chair in Applied Linguistics, School of Humanities, University of Southampton, UK
BRANCA FALABELLA FABRÍCIO Lecturer at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
MARNIE HOLBOROW Lecturer in ESOL, Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland
BILL JOHNSTON Associate Professor of TESOL and Applied Linguistics, Indiana University, USA
JOHN KATUNICH Lecturer in the English Department of the Faculty of Foreign Studies, University of Kitakyushu, Japan
RYUKO KUBOTA Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
B. KUMARAVADIVELU Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL, San Jose State University, California, USA
AYA MATSUDA Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of New Hampshire, USA
DENISE SANTOS Sessional Lecturer at Reading University, UK
ABDEL LATIF SELLAMI Assistant Professor of Composition and Linguistics, Zayed University, Duabi, UAE
MANKA M. VARGHESE Assistant Professor in Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
PAUL WOODS Manages the British Council's Peacekeeping English Project in 27 countries, mainly in Central/Eastern Europe and Central Asia