International Perspectives on Mentoring in English Language Education

Mark Wyatt is an Associate Professor of English at Khalifa University in the United Arab Emirates. He previously worked for the Universities of Leeds and Portsmouth, UK. His research interests include language teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs, motivation, practitioner research, reflective practice and mentoring, and he has published widely in these areas.  Kenan Dikilitaş is Professor of University Pedagogy at University of Stavanger in Norway. He previously worked in Turkey on graduate and undergraduate programs. His recent research interests include teacher education and professional development with emphasis on action research and bilingual teaching, and he has published related articles and books.

“International Perspectives on Mentoring in English Language Education is a groundbreaking compilation of research studies reflecting the depth and breadth of recent developments … . splendidly reflects the richness of mentoring experiences gained in strikingly different contexts in recent decades. Although my own experience as an emerging teacher-research mentor influenced which chapters resonated with me the most, all of them are suffused with a philosophy of mentoring that focuses on humanistic, reflective and collaborative approaches. Highly recommended.” (Erzsébet Ágnes Békés, Argentinian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol. 10 (2), November, 2022)

• 1. Current developments in mentoring in English language education (Mark Wyatt and Kenan Dikilitaş).- 2. Peer-tutors as writing centre peer-mentors at the American University of Sharjah (Maria Eleftheriou, Zahraa Al-Dawood, Konstantina Spyropoulou, and Roger Nunn).- 3. Mentoring doctoral students: Challenging the loneliness of the long-distance novice researcher (Anne Burns).- 4. Mentoring through modeling and socialization: Insights from China and Nepal (Peter I. De Costa, Laxmi Prasad Ojha and Luqing Zang).- 5. Contradictions in a TESOL mentoring program in Vietnam: Implications for practice (Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen and Thi Lan Anh Tran).- 6. Systematic Informed Reflective Practice: Facilitating knowledge and agency co-construction through mentoring (Elena Ončevska Ager).- 7. Learning to mentor junior high school teachers in Japan (James Hall and Fiona Copland).- 8. Reflections on mentoring in-service English language teachers in Oman drawing on Malderez and Bodóczky’s ‘Mentor Courses’ (Mark Wyatt).- 9. Mentoring at scale in India: The English Language Initiative for Secondary Schools (Simon Borg).- 10. Is it cultural or personal?: Exploring interwoven factors influencing mentoring conversations (Melissa K. Smith and Marilyn Lewis).- 11. Transformative mentoring in a pre-school bilingual context in Turkey (Kenan Dikilitaş and Simon Edward Mumford).- 12. Collaboration, collegiality, co-production: Mentoring exploratory practitioners in international contexts (Judith Hanks, Inés K. Miller, and Maria I. A. Cunha).- 13. Empowering teachers through mentoring within Language Teacher Associations: examples from Africa (Kuchah Kuchah and Amira Salama).- 14. Mentoring teacher-research – from situated practice to ‘global’ guidance (Richard Smith).- 15. Mentoring teacher-research online (Claudia Bustos-Moraga and Steve Mann).- 16. Mentoring presence for supporting international teacher-researchers (Kenan Dikilitaş, Aslı Lidice Göktürk Sağlam, Mariana Serra and Ruben Daniel Mazzei).- 17. Mentoring in English language education: Using current transnational practices to inform the future (Mark Wyatt and Kenan Dikilitaş).