This volume focuses on glocalization in English language teaching and learning, examining the challenges of its implementation. It describes the innovative practices of multilingual TESOL practitioners from various parts of the world, offering nuanced perspectives on how to glocalize teaching methods, curricula, materials, and teacher preparation. The chapters, spanning different levels of education, weave together theory and practice, highlighting strategies to successfully navigate the complex relationships between global demands and local needs in language teaching and learning. This edited book presents empirical research studies, which together provide the evidence-based knowledge necessary to effectively teach linguistically and culturally diverse students. Beyond academic discussion, this book serves as a practical guide for those involved in teacher preparation, offering strategies and practical applications of glocalized approaches to developing programs for pre-service educators. Above all, the book invites all language teaching professionals to embrace glocalization practices in response to the increasingly plurilingual and pluricultural world in which they operate.

Natalia Wright has taught for 27 years, in Russia, the UK, and now Kuwait. She holds a BA degree in language teaching from the Teacher’s Training Institute in Russia and an MA in Language Education from the University of Chichester. She has recently graduated with a Doctorate in Education from the University of Glasgow, UK. She is an English instructor at the American University of the Middle East in Kuwait. Her research interests center on transnationalism, glocalized pedagogy, multilingualism, and sociolinguistics.