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English Language Teacher Education in Latin America

Autoethnographic Insights

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English Language Teacher Education in Latin America

Autoethnographic Insights

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This pioneering collection provides a space for Latin American English language teacher educators and leaders to share their innovative professional practices.

Their autoethnographic contributions adeptly intertwine personal trajectories with wider societal and pedagogical narratives, elucidating crucial themes across the region's terrains.

Latin America's English language pedagogy still trails behind on the global stage despite countries like Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia bolstering their English teacher education and enhancing the delivery of English as a foreign language. This landscape demands a deeper scholarly inquiry, particularly at the crossroads of innovative pedagogies and their real-world applications within the distinctive milieu of Latin America. Spanning the entire continent and a vast variety of teaching and learning contexts, this book's contributors tackle challenges including collaboration, professional identity and development, queer texts, democratizing access, social justice and materials design.

Gathering perspectives and experiences through auto-, duo- and trio-ethnographic chapters, this collection of personal and deeply collaborative reflections is a powerful account of first-person lived experiences in TESOL teacher education in Latin America.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Debra Suarez (Independent Researcher and President-Elect, TESOL International Association)
1. Autoethnography, English language education, and Latin America: Rationale and introduction to the volume, Raúl Alberto Mora (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB, Colombia)) and Luis Javier Pentón Herrera (Akademia Ekonomiczno-Humanistyczna w Warszawie, Poland)
2. Unveiling identities through collaborative autoethnography, Ana Cecilia Cad (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina), Vanesa Cladera (Universidad Autonoma de Entre Ríos, Argentina), & María de los Ángeles Bortagaray (Universidad Autonoma de Entre Ríos, Argentina)
3. Teaching Aymara and English in a multilingual Bolivia: A duoethnographic account from two language teachers with a struggling professional identity, Beatriz Erazo (Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia and Universidad Católica Boliviana, Bolivia) & Rita Flores (Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia & Universidad Pública de El Alto, Bolivia)
4. Flapping butterflies' wings: A collaborative ethnographic account in language teacher education in Brazil, Larissa Borges (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil), Walkyria Magno e Silva (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil), & Eduardo Castro (Kanda University of International Studies, Japan)
5. Knitting narratives: A duoethnographic exploration in the journey to becoming English language teacher educators, Malba Barahona (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) & Daniela Appelgren (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile)
6. Turning ourselves inside out: A collaborative autoethnography of showing our aches and pains but also gains of being English language teacher educators, Jairo Castañeda-Trujillo (Universidad Surcolombiana, Colombia), Carmen Helena Guerrero (Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Colombia), & José David Largo (Fundación Universitaria Juan N. Corpas, Colombia)
7. Identity and agency unplugged: A duoethnography on being a Costa Rican English language teacher educator, Lena Barrantes Elizondo (Universidad Nacional, Sede Regional Brunca, Costa Rica) & Joshua Gordon (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
8. Driving professional practice in teacher education for innovative success in a challenging context: A duoethnography, Isora Justina Enríquez O´Farrill (University of Pedagogical Sciences Enrique José Varona, Cuba) & Eduardo Garbey Savigne (University of Medical Sciences of Havana, Cuba)
9. A collaborative autoethnography of democratizing access to English teaching in the Dominican Republic's public schools, Laura Baecher (Kean University, USA), Beth Clark-Gareca (Binghamton University, USA), & Luz Andujar de Jesus (Binghamton University, USA)
10. Mapping trajectories: A trio-ethnographic study on the pursuit of professional development of three women language teacher-educators, Tammy Fajardo Dack, Juanita Argudo-Serrano, & Monica Abad-Celleri (Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador)
11. Access to education: A duoethnographic account of the eternal pursuit of bridging the gap and providing access to opportunities, Grazzia Mendoza (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) & Juana de Ayestas (Zamorano University, Honduras)
12. Our professional development journeys: A duoethnographic research, Araceli Salas and Marisol Guzmán Cova (Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, México)
13. Educational Innovation in English Language Teaching: Autoethnography Reflections from a Public University in Nicaragua, Julio Roa Rocha and Marjorie Gómez Talavera (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Nicaragua)
14. My teacher no habla inglés: A duoethnography dialogue of triumphs and challenges in Panamá, Juan Ríos Vega (Bradley University, USA) & Roberto Arroyo
15. An open-access collaborative textbook experience: A duoethnographic study of teaching English in global contexts, Valentina Canese (Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay) & Susan Spezzini (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)
16. Empowering voices: The educational trajectory of 2 Peruvian English-language educators, Glenda Gallardo (Universidad de Lima and Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Perú) & Karen A. Meza Fernandez (Harvard University Graduate School of Education, USA)
17. Reparative counterstories: An autoethnographic narrative on queer texts in the Puerto Rican English language classroom, Gabriel T. Acevedo (Arizona State University, USA)
18. Venezuelan socialism and the destruction of English language education: An Autoethnographic account, José Franco (Lexington School District Four, South Carolina, USA)
Afterword, Luciana C. de Oliveira (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 19 Mar 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 256
ISBN 9781350524248
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Series Critical Approaches and Innovations in Language Teacher Education
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Raúl Alberto Mora

Raúl Alberto Mora is Associate Professor at the Do…

Anthology Editor

Luis Javier Pentón Herrera

Luis Javier Pentón Herrera is Professor at the Un…

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