Amy S. Thompson is Professor and Department Chair of World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at West Virginia University, USA. Her primary research interests involve individual differences in SLA and their interaction with multilingualism. She is co-editor, with Ursula Lanvers and Martin East, of Language Learning in Anglophone Countries: Challenges, Practices, Ways Forward (2020, Palgrave MacMillan).

Foreword
Preface

1. Introduction

2. Senegal: 'We English teachers, we speak English'

3. Vietnam: 'English is a privilege for me'

4. Egypt: 'Why is he comparing her to a summer's day?'

5. Argentina: 'Learning the language will never end'

6. Turkey: 'I'm better than these guys'

7. Ukraine: 'I know how my people think'

8. Estonia: 'Teachers speak better'

9. Final Thoughts

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