LETs and NESTs

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Across the globe, Local English Teachers and Native English-Speaking Teachers collaborate in classrooms and schools to develop their students' English language skills. This book explores their experiences and develops new understandings of their practices. Contributors include teachers, teacher educators, managers and academics, each exploring a different aspect of NEST schemes and teachers working together. Their various voices record a range of perspectives from the challenges of intercultural teaching to inequities in employment practices, and from the practicalities of managing NEST schemes to issues of race and identity. The collection concludes with an extended chapter bringing together opinion pieces by leading scholars on theoretical and ideological aspects of employing NESTS to teach English overseas and the effects on local English teachers and contexts.

Fiona Copland, co-editor of this publication, is Professor of TESOL at the University of Stirling, Scotland. She has worked as a NEST in Nigeria and Hong Kong and as a teacher trainer in Japan and the UK. She has also been Course Director of Masters programmes in TESOL at UK universities and supervises PhD students in a range of areas. Fiona has researched and published in the areas of teacher education, teaching English to young learners and linguistic ethnography.

Sue Garton, co-editor of this publication, is Director of Postgraduate Programmes in English at Aston University, Birmingham UK where she teaches TESOL modules to both undergraduates and postgraduates as well as supervising PhDs. Her research interests include teaching English to young learners, language policy and planning, language teacher education and classroom discourse. She has published books and articles in the area of English language teaching, including From Experience to Knowledge in ELT with Julian Edge in the Oxford Handbooks for Teachers series and Professional Encounters in TESOL with Keith Richards. She is currently series editor, with Keith Richards, of a major new 15-volume series called International Perspectives on ELT published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Steve Mann, co-editor of this publication, is Associate Professor at the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick. He previously lectured at both Aston University and the University of Birmingham. He has experience in Hong Kong, Japan and Europe in both English language teaching and teacher development. Steve supervises a research group of PhD students who are investigating teachers' education and development. The group's work considers aspects of teacher development, teacher beliefs and the development of knowledge, the first year of teaching, mentoring, blended learning, and the use of technology in teacher development. He has published various books including Innovations in Pre-service Teacher Education published by the British Council.