CES2E6-Duoethnograhy And Language Teacher Training

For the very first time we have two guests, Michael Karas and Patrick Huang who are quite knowledgeable with the CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) programs. Michael, falling in love with languages while travelling to France and Patrick being quite musical, today, they describe their engagement in a duo-ethnographic approach to do research. First, they describe the bolts and nuts of what it means to teach and learn to get the CELTA certificate. Then, they both critically discussed their experiences teaching English in Canada and abroad as they use their conversations as data for their research. Finally, they encourage our audience towards a more reflective approach to teaching and to do research as a fertile ground to explore introspection and criticality in teacher education programs.
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Bio
Patrick has been an ESL teacher and teacher trainer for 15 years, working on CELTA (Certificate for English Language Teaching to Adults) - a pre-service qualification from Cambridge English - as well as Delta (the diploma level qualification after CELTA) courses in different contexts. He is a PhD student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto.

Michael completed his PhD in Applied Linguistics at the University of Western Ontario. He currently teaches in the Master of TESOL program at Western. His research interests are broadly situated within Language Teacher Education and TESOL, and he has taught English in South Korea, China, and Canada.
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Sources:
Anderson, J. (2016). Initial teacher training courses and non-native speaker teachers. Let Journal, 70(3), 261-274.
Lowe, R. J., Kiczkowiak, M. (2016). Native-speakerism and the complexity of personal experience: A duoethnographic study. Cogent Education 3(1), 1264171.
Ramjattan, V. (2019). The white native speaker and inequality regimes in the private English language school, Intercultural Education, 30(2), 126-140.
Rosa, J., & Flores, N. (2017). Unsettling race and language: Toward a raciolinguistic perspective. Language in Society, 46(5), 621-647.
Sawyer, R. D., & Norris, J. (2013). Duoethnography. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Cite this podcast (APA):
Ortega, Y. (Producer). (2019, November 6). CES2E6 – Duoethnograhy and Language Teacher Training [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/chasingencounters/ces2e6-duoethnograhy-and-language-teacher-training