Conference presentation
From professional language teacher to Communication academic: Constructing knowledgeability across a landscape of practice
Applied Linguistics Conference , 2019 (Perth, Australia, 25-Nov-2019 - 27-Nov-2019)
2019
Abstract
In this autoethnographic account, I track a twenty-year career at a regional Australian university moving from being a TESOL/EAP teacher and sessional tutor in Japanese and Applied Linguistics to a Lecturer in Communication teaching not only languages and linguistic courses but also co-designing and managing a whole-of-university first-year foundation course in communication. Using a ‘landscape of practice’ framework (Wenger-Trayner & Wenger-Trayner, 2015), I examine how my membership of various communities of practice has shifted over time, resulting in ongoing boundary encounters requiring negotiation across multiple modes of identification and disidentification to produce the multiplicity of practices across my landscape and a resultant knowledgeability’. Specifically, I consider how the ‘regimes of competence’ I encountered in changing my primary identity as a professional language teacher to that of a full-time academic have challenged and transformed my experience, identity and knowledgeability, as well as how my experiences have pulled and transformed the regimes of competence of the academic communities to which I belong. In so doing, I attempt to realise my knowledgeability more fully by being accountable and expressive in arguing for the value of theoretically-informed and experientially-based second/additional language teaching in an academy where this field is often marginalised and under-valued.
Details
- Title
- From professional language teacher to Communication academic: Constructing knowledgeability across a landscape of practice
- Authors
- Ann Robertson (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Tertiary Access - Legacy
- Conference details
- Applied Linguistics Conference , 2019 (Perth, Australia, 25-Nov-2019 - 27-Nov-2019)
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access; School of Tertiary Access - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99472505702621
- Output Type
- Conference presentation
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