Higher Education

In this volume of the TESOL Voices series, authors give readers a front-row seat into current policy, practice, and theory in language education - from diverse classrooms all over the world. Through personal narratives shared by teachers and students like, find out how it feels to be a bewildered, foreign-born student trying to learn the academic culture of an American university while simultaneously learning the language. Understand the impact of stereotypes through a letter exchange between Cambodian and Japanese students. Explore the importance of peer- and self-editing in writing cases—and how teachers in South Korea guide their students through the process.

Tim Stewart has been a teacher-researcher in the TESOL field for 20 years. After an intriguing experience as the editor of Essential Teacher, he created the Communities of Participation in TESOL section for the TESOL Journal that he edited for six years. Tim teaches at Kyoto University in Japan’s ancient capital.