For most of its history, the field of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) has focussed much of its attention on teaching methods and curricula to the exclusion of the person who must deliver them. In this article we propose that TESOL recognize the inner lives of teachers through understanding their spirituality from the perspective of the teacher’s personal and professional being and becoming. We encourage teachers to reflect on the spiritual dimensions of practice and propose how these might interface with standard disciplinary knowledge to produce more integrated language teachers.

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“我们教我们是谁”：TESOL 中的沉思、反思性实践和灵性

在其历史的大部分时间里，向讲其他语言的人 (TESOL) 教授英语的领域将其大部分注意力集中在教学方法和课程上，而排除了必须提供这些内容的人。在这篇文章中，我们提出TESOL从教师的个人和职业存在和成为的角度来理解教师的灵性，从而认识他们的内心生活。我们鼓励教师反思实践的精神层面，并提出如何将这些与标准学科知识相结合，以培养出更加综合的语言教师。