Mentoring Teacher-Research: From Situated Practice to ‘Global’ Guidance

Abstract

This book focuses on mentoring in English language education internationally, as it applies to students, language teachers, practitioner researchers and research mentors themselves. It aims to provide an in-depth understanding of current mentoring practices in diverse contexts worldwide, drawing on case studies from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and the USA; China, India, Japan, Nepal, and Vietnam; Australia; parts of Africa; Oman and the UAE; North Macedonia, Turkey and the UK. Areas of focus include peer mentoring, mentor courses, cross-cultural issues, and modalities such as face-to-face or online mentoring, and the chapters also highlight the value of different methodological tools for exploring mentoring situations, including cultural-historical activity theory and conversation analysis. The books conclusion highlights the potential of mentoring to widen access to learning and therefore address issues that relate to social injustice and inequality, particularly in, but not limited to, under-resourced contexts. This volume will be of particular interest to teacher educators, pre-service and in-service language teachers, and students and scholars of applied linguistics and English language teaching. Mark Wyatt is an Associate Professor of English at Khalifa University in the United Arab Emirates. He previously worked for the Universities of Leeds and Portsmouth, UK. His research interests include language teachers self-efficacy beliefs, motivation, practitioner research, reflective practice and mentoring, and he has published widely in these areas. Kenan Dikilitas is Professor of University Pedagogy at University of Stavanger in Norway. He previously worked in Turkey on graduate and undergraduate programs. His recent research interests include teacher education and professional development with emphasis on action research and bilingual teaching, and he has published related articles and books. 1. Current developments in mentoring in English language education (Mark Wyatt and Kenan Dikilitas) -- 2. Peer-tutors as writing centre peer-mentors at the American University of Sharjah (Maria Eleftheriou, Zahraa Al-Dawood, Konstantina Spyropoulou, and Roger Nunn) -- 3. Mentoring doctoral students: Challenging the loneliness of the long-distance novice researcher (Anne Burns) -- 4. Mentoring through modeling and socialization: Insights from China and Nepal (Peter I. De Costa, Laxmi Prasad Ojha and Luqing Zang) -- 5. Contradictions in a TESOL mentoring program in Vietnam: Implications for practice (Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen and Thi Lan Anh Tran) -- 6. Systematic Informed Reflective Practice: Facilitating knowledge and agency co-construction through mentoring (Elena Oncevska Ager) -- 7. Learning to mentor junior high school teachers in Japan (James Hall and Fiona Copland) -- 8. Reflections on mentoring in-service English language teachers in Oman drawing on Malderez and Bodoczkys Mentor Courses (Mark Wyatt) -- 9. Mentoring at scale in India: The English Language Initiative for Secondary Schools (Simon Borg) -- 10. Is it cultural or personal?: Exploring interwoven factors influencing mentoring conversations (Melissa K. Smith and Marilyn Lewis) -- 11. Transformative mentoring in a pre-school bilingual context in Turkey (Kenan Dikilitas and Simon Edward Mumford) -- 12. Collaboration, collegiality, co-production: Mentoring exploratory practitioners in international contexts (Judith Hanks, Ines K. Miller, and Maria I. A. Cunha) -- 13. Empowering teachers through mentoring within Language Teacher Associations: examples from Africa (Kuchah Kuchah and Amira Salama) -- 14. Mentoring teacher-research from situated practice to global guidance (Richard Smith) -- 15. Mentoring teacher-research online (Claudia Bustos-Moraga and Steve Mann) -- 16. Mentoring presence for supporting international teacher-researchers (Kenan Dikilitas, Asl Lidice Gokturk Saglam, Mariana Serra and Ruben Daniel Mazzei) -- 17. Mentoring in English language education: Using current transnational practices to inform the future (Mark Wyatt and Kenan Dikilitas).