Efl Writing Teacher Education and Professional Development: Voices from Under-Represented Contexts

This book explores how EFL writing teacher education is shaped, given teachers’ unique local contexts and circumstances. The chapters prioritize local voices and materials in order to help build a more comprehensive picture of L2 writing globally, enabling the book as a whole to both document and further shape pedagogical approaches to L2 writing.

Estela Ene is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Indiana University Indianapolis, USA, where she directs and teaches in the English for Academic Purposes Program and the MA in TESOL Program.

Betsy Gilliland is an Associate Professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa, USA, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in L2 writing pedagogy and research, academic literacies and qualitative research methods.

Sarah Henderson Lee is a Professor of English at Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA, where she directs the multilingual writing program and teaches in the graduate Rhetoric & Composition and TESOL programs.

Tanita Saenkhum is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA, where she teaches courses in L2 writing, TESOL methods and SLA.

Lisya Seloni is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL in the Department of English at Illinois State University, USA, where she teaches courses in L2 writing, TESOL methods and materials, and raciolinguistics.