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Indrarathne, Bimali – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2019
It is estimated that 10% of the world's population has dyslexia or related learning difficulties, and it is therefore vital for language teachers to have a thorough understanding of such difficulties and of inclusive teaching techniques. It is believed that teacher training can increase teachers' knowledge of dyslexia and inclusion, inculcate…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Dyslexia, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Barriers
Schreiber, Brooke R. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2019
Research over the past decades has demonstrated the harmful effects of native speakerism in English language teaching, including how perceptions of native speaker status are deeply intertwined with race and national identity. Recently, scholars have begun to investigate how teacher training programs might push back on native speakerism by…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction

Brodkey, Dean – TESOL Quarterly, 1974
An experimental university ESL program at Vidyodaya campus of the University of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) features small, student-led tutorial groups for the development of conversational skill and college reading skill. (Author)
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, English (Second Language), Peer Teaching, Reading Skills

Canagarajah, A. Suresh – TESOL Quarterly, 1993
Decreased motivation in 13 female and 9 male tertiary-level Tamil students in an English for general purposes course was contradicted by verbal affirmations of their motivation. The contradiction reflects conflict between cultural integrity and socioeconomic mobility and leads to an ambivalent state with elements of accommodation and opposition in…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Culture Conflict, English (Second Language)

Braine, George; Canagarajah, A. Suresh – TESOL Quarterly, 1994
Argues that Canagarajah's ethnographic study of a Sri Lankan university classroom is of limited value because of the choice of site, subjects, and textbook. Canagarajah responds by rebutting these criticisms and asserting that his study chose to show local conditions as they existed. (Contains 16 references.) (MDM)
Descriptors: College Students, Criticism, English (Second Language), Ethnography
Canagarajah, A. Suresh – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2012
In this ethnographic self-reconstruction, the author represents the ways in which he negotiated the differing teaching practices and professional cultures of the periphery and the center in an effort to develop a strategic professional identity. He brings out the importance of using multiple identities critically for voice in the wider…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Ethnography
Hayes, David – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2010
This article discusses the life and career of a Tamil teacher of English working in the government education system in northern Sri Lanka. Based on data gathered in an extended life history interview, the article explores the teacher's own experiences of schooling, his reasons for entering teaching as a profession, his professional training, and…
Descriptors: Professional Training, Biographies, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes