Melanie Cooke is a Lecturer in ESOL and Applied Linguistics, in the Department of Education, Communication and Society at King’s College, London, UK. She taught both EFL and ESOL before becoming a researcher.Rob Peutrell is an ESOL lecturer at Nottingham College, Nottingham, UK. He has taught both EFL and ESOL, and worked as a learning support lecturer.

This is a coherent, lively, ethnographically-informed critique of ESOL teachers being encouraged to broker official narratives of Britain at the expense of minority perspectives. Positive examples of students as partners in learning make this an authoritative and challenging contribution to the still sparse literature on nationalism, citizenship and language teaching.

• Introduction. Melanie Cooke and Rob Peutrell                                                         Part 1: Framing ESOL and Citizenship in the UKChapter 1. James Simpson: Policy and Adult Migrant Language Education in the UKChapter 2. Rob Peutrell Thinking About Citizenship and ESOLChapter 3. Melanie Cooke: ESOL Teachers as Mediators of the Citizenship Testing Regime                                                                         Part 2: Brokering Britain in the ClassroomChapter 4. John Callaghan, Tesfalem Yemane, Mike Baynham: Steps to Settlement for Refugees: A Case StudyChapter 5. Michael Hepworth: Argumentation, Citizenship and the Adult ESOL ClassroomChapter 6. Pauline Moon with Roseena Hussain: Using Participatory Photography in English Classes: Resisting Silence, Resisting Dis-citizenshipChapter 7. Melanie Cooke, Dermot Bryers and Becky Winstanley: ‘Our Languages’: Towards Sociolinguistic Citizenship in ESOLPart 3: ESOL and Citizenship in Migrants' Lives Chapter 8. Stefan Vollmer: Digital Citizenship for Newly Arrived Syrian Refugees Through Mobile TechnologiesChapter 9. Sheila Macdonald: Migrant Women, Active CitizensChapter 10. John Gray and Melanie Cooke: Queering ESOL: Sexual Citizenship in ESOL ClassroomsChapter 11. Celia Roberts: From the Outside in: Gatekeeping the WorkplaceAfterword. Rob Peutrell and Melanie Cooke: ESOL, Citizenship and TeacherProfessionalism

Melanie Cooke is a Lecturer in ESOL and Applied Linguistics, in the Department of Education, Communication and Society at King’s College, London, UK. She taught both EFL and ESOL before becoming a researcher.Rob Peutrell is an ESOL lecturer at Nottingham College, Nottingham, UK. He has taught both EFL and ESOL, and worked as a learning support lecturer.

This is a coherent, lively, ethnographically-informed critique of ESOL teachers being encouraged to broker official narratives of Britain at the expense of minority perspectives. Positive examples of students as partners in learning make this an authoritative and challenging contribution to the still sparse literature on nationalism, citizenship and language teaching.

• Introduction. Melanie Cooke and Rob Peutrell                                                         Part 1: Framing ESOL and Citizenship in the UKChapter 1. James Simpson: Policy and Adult Migrant Language Education in the UKChapter 2. Rob Peutrell Thinking About Citizenship and ESOLChapter 3. Melanie Cooke: ESOL Teachers as Mediators of the Citizenship Testing Regime                                                                         Part 2: Brokering Britain in the ClassroomChapter 4. John Callaghan, Tesfalem Yemane, Mike Baynham: Steps to Settlement for Refugees: A Case StudyChapter 5. Michael Hepworth: Argumentation, Citizenship and the Adult ESOL ClassroomChapter 6. Pauline Moon with Roseena Hussain: Using Participatory Photography in English Classes: Resisting Silence, Resisting Dis-citizenshipChapter 7. Melanie Cooke, Dermot Bryers and Becky Winstanley: ‘Our Languages’: Towards Sociolinguistic Citizenship in ESOLPart 3: ESOL and Citizenship in Migrants' Lives Chapter 8. Stefan Vollmer: Digital Citizenship for Newly Arrived Syrian Refugees Through Mobile TechnologiesChapter 9. Sheila Macdonald: Migrant Women, Active CitizensChapter 10. John Gray and Melanie Cooke: Queering ESOL: Sexual Citizenship in ESOL ClassroomsChapter 11. Celia Roberts: From the Outside in: Gatekeeping the WorkplaceAfterword. Rob Peutrell and Melanie Cooke: ESOL, Citizenship and TeacherProfessionalism

Melanie Cooke is a Lecturer in ESOL and Applied Linguistics, in the Department of Education, Communication and Society at King’s College, London, UK. She taught both EFL and ESOL before becoming a researcher.Rob Peutrell is an ESOL lecturer at Nottingham College, Nottingham, UK. He has taught both EFL and ESOL, and worked as a learning support lecturer.

This is a coherent, lively, ethnographically-informed critique of ESOL teachers being encouraged to broker official narratives of Britain at the expense of minority perspectives. Positive examples of students as partners in learning make this an authoritative and challenging contribution to the still sparse literature on nationalism, citizenship and language teaching.

• Introduction. Melanie Cooke and Rob Peutrell                                                         Part 1: Framing ESOL and Citizenship in the UKChapter 1. James Simpson: Policy and Adult Migrant Language Education in the UKChapter 2. Rob Peutrell Thinking About Citizenship and ESOLChapter 3. Melanie Cooke: ESOL Teachers as Mediators of the Citizenship Testing Regime                                                                         Part 2: Brokering Britain in the ClassroomChapter 4. John Callaghan, Tesfalem Yemane, Mike Baynham: Steps to Settlement for Refugees: A Case StudyChapter 5. Michael Hepworth: Argumentation, Citizenship and the Adult ESOL ClassroomChapter 6. Pauline Moon with Roseena Hussain: Using Participatory Photography in English Classes: Resisting Silence, Resisting Dis-citizenshipChapter 7. Melanie Cooke, Dermot Bryers and Becky Winstanley: ‘Our Languages’: Towards Sociolinguistic Citizenship in ESOLPart 3: ESOL and Citizenship in Migrants' Lives Chapter 8. Stefan Vollmer: Digital Citizenship for Newly Arrived Syrian Refugees Through Mobile TechnologiesChapter 9. Sheila Macdonald: Migrant Women, Active CitizensChapter 10. John Gray and Melanie Cooke: Queering ESOL: Sexual Citizenship in ESOL ClassroomsChapter 11. Celia Roberts: From the Outside in: Gatekeeping the WorkplaceAfterword. Rob Peutrell and Melanie Cooke: ESOL, Citizenship and TeacherProfessionalism