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This volume develops a comprehensive understanding of the manner in which dominant/emergent ideologies, discourses and social structures impact language education. The 17 chapters analyze the complex social dynamics of "isms" within language education and detail how such dynamics influence language education pedagogies and practices, institutional policies, intergroup subjectivities in addition to language proficiency achievements.

Second language acquisition --- Language and languages --- Language and culture. --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Social aspects. --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers. --- Foreign language study --- Language and education --- Language schools --- Foreign speakers --- Language and languages Study and teaching --- Study and teaching. --- Language Education. --- Language Policy. --- Sociolinguistics.

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This volume examines the agency of second/foreign language teachers in diverse geographical contexts and in both K-12 and adult education. It offers new understandings and conceptualizations of second/foreign language teacher agency through a variety of types of empirical data. It also demonstrates the use of different methodologies or analytic tools to study the multidimensional, dynamic and complex nature of second/foreign language teacher agency. The chapters draw on a range of theories and approaches to language teacher agency (including ecological theory, positioning theory, complexity theory and actor-network theory) that expand our understanding of the concept, while at the same time presenting various analytic approaches such as discourse studies and narrative inquiry. The chapters also analyze the connection of agency to other relevant topics, such as teacher identity, emotions, positioning and autonomy.

English teachers --- Language teachers --- Training of --- Social aspects. --- Research --- Methodology. --- EFL. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Teacher agency. --- applied linguistics . --- language and identity. --- language teaching. --- social factors in language teaching. --- teacher identity. --- Literature teachers