TY - BOOK ID - 78716209 TI - A Transdisciplinary Approach to International Teaching Assistants : Perspectives from Applied Linguistics AU - Bhalla, Shereen, AU - Looney, Stephen Daniel, PY - 2019 SN - 1788925564 1788925556 9781788925556 9781788925563 9781788925570 1788925572 9781788925549 9781788925532 178892553X 1788925548 PB - Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, DB - UniCat KW - Graduate teaching assistants KW - College teaching KW - English language KW - Germanic languages KW - College teacher aides KW - College teacher assistants KW - Graduate assistants (Teaching assistants) KW - Graduate teaching fellows KW - TAs (Graduate teaching assistants) KW - Teaching assistants, Graduate KW - Teaching fellows, Graduate KW - College teachers KW - Graduate students KW - Training of KW - Study and teaching (Higher) KW - Foreign speakers. KW - Foreign students KW - Applied Linguistics. KW - Assessment. KW - Global Englishes. KW - ITA problem. KW - International Teaching Assistants. KW - Introduction to Applied Linguistics. KW - Sociolinguistics. KW - Teaching English as a Second Language. KW - Transdisciplinary. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78716209 AB - North American universities depend on international teaching assistants (ITAs) as a substantial part of the teaching labor force, which has led to the idea of an ‘ITA problem’, a deficiency model which is framed as a divergence between ITAs’ linguistic competence and undergraduates’ and their parents’ expectations. This outdated positioning of ITAs as deficient diminishes the invaluable role they play within the academy. This book argues instead for an approach to ITA which recognizes them as multilingual, skilled, migrant professionals who participate in and are discursively constructed through various participant frameworks, modalities and activities. The chapters in this volume offer state-of-the-art research into ITA using a variety of methods and approaches, and as such constitute a transdisciplinary perspective which argues for the importance of dialogue between research and practice. ER -