Abstract

RAINEY DE DIAZ, Isobel. EFL Teachers´ Research and Mainstream TESOL: Ships Passing in the Night?. profile [online]. 2005, n.6, pp.7-21. ISSN 1657-0790.

This article describes and analyses the concerns of EFL secondary school teachers who do, or would like to be doing, research into their own classroom practices. The study attempts to show that, despite claims to the contrary, these concerns are still not being accounted for in mainstream TESOL. Even though EFL teachers may have been given voice within their national contexts, that voice is neither being heard nor acted upon in the dominant TESOL community. It is suggested, therefore, that until EFL teachers from non-mainstream TESOL contexts not only benefit from but also contribute to that body of knowledge which forms the bedrock of TESOL, and from which many reforms derive, this profession will continue to be hegemonic and not truly representative of a global TESOL reality.

Keywords : EFL teachers; secondary school; mainstream TESOL; non-mainstream TESOL; research concerns and interests; inner and expanding circles.

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