Teaching across Cultures: Identity, Race, and Cultures in the Teaching ofEnglish as a Second Language

Insightful analysis of American female teachers whoteach English as a Second Language in the UnitedStates. Satoshi Tsukamoto, who comes from Japan,delves into identity construction of the ESL teachersand their classroom practices. He uses qualitativemethods to analyze their racial, cultural, andlanguage identities and examines the ways in whichthey perceive and construct their identitiessurrounded by immigrated children and internationalstudents. Satoshi takes advantages of his ownsituation in which he learned English as a SecondLanguage and studied in the United States as agraduate student. He challenges whiteness, Americancultural values, and English imperialism from hisunique point of view. This is a very interesting bookand should be read by anyone concerned about race,culture, language, and identity.