Desiring TESOL and International Education

Raqib Chowdhury works as an academic in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. His research interests include EAP and TESOL, English as an International Language, and Identity.Phan Le Ha has recently been appointed Associate Professor of Education in the College of Education, The University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, after nearly a decade lecturing in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Her research interests include International Education, English as an International Language, Identity Studies, and Academic Writing.

In this book, Raqib Chowdhury and Phan Le Ha provide a vigorous account of the ways in which universities in English-speaking countries are developing their institutional narratives of internationalization around various discourses of the market. Through the voices of international students, the book shows how, within these narratives, TESOL has become a field of study that presupposes a particular ideological conception about the kind of English-speaking subjectivities that the global economy demands, together with the assumption that international education is well placed to help create such subjectivities.

• Preface1. Looking into the Problem2. Power, Discourse, Desire and International Education3. Globalisation, International Education and Questions of Identity4. Constructing the ‘Truths’ of International Student Subjectivities5. From Global to Local – Learning Supermarkets in the National Interest: International Education and the Australian Government6. The Fabric of Relations: Desire and the Formation of Choices7. Brokering Identity8. Rika: ‘The Spotlight of Difference’9. Purchasing the ‘Good’10. Reconstructing the Discourses of International Education