Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. 2. Language Teacher Agency: Major Theoretical Considerations, Conceptualizations and Methodological Choices 10
7. Part 1: Language Teacher Agency in K-12 Contexts
8. 3. Examining High School English Language Learner Teacher Agency: Opportunities and Constraints 24
9. 4. ‘What If You Don’t Have Boots’, Let Alone Bootstraps? An ELL Teacher’s Use of Narrative to Achieve and Generate Agency in the Face of Contextual Constraints 44
10. 5. Language Teacher Agency and High-Stakes Teacher Evaluation: A Positioning Analysis 63
11. 6. Using Actor-Network Theory to Problematize Agency and Identity Formation of Filipino Teachers in Japan 82
12. 7. World Language Teachers Performing and Positioning Agency in Classroom Target Language Use 101
13. 8. Bi/Multilingual Teachers’ Professional Holistic Lives: Agency to Enact Inquiry-based and Equity-oriented Identities across School Contexts 121
14. Part 2: Language Teacher Agency in Adult ESL/EFL Contexts
15. 9. English Language Teachers’ Agency and Identity Mediation through Action Research: A Vygotskian Sociocultural Analysis 141
16. 10. Problematizing English Language Teaching in China through a Local Chinese English Teacher Agency Lens 160
17. 11. Teacher Authority and the Collaborative Construction of Agency in Second Language Writing Instruction 180
18. 12. Language Teacher Agency: A Critical Realist Perspective 199
19. 13. Volunteer Teacher Agency in a Church-based ESL Program: An Ethnography 217
20. 14. English Language Instructors, Medium of Education and Professional Agency: An Indian Perspective 237
21. Afterword 258
22. Index 273