At first when I was finished reading the article I was just upset. Upset that everything we are studying is constantly being disproved and new information comes out saying that what teachers have been doing with their students for the past five years is not beneficial and they need to update their teaching. However, I then began to think of how happy I am to actually be in a class where we have gotten a full range of where our content has been to what it is now. This change is so refreshing from the typical classes of just saying what is right and what is wrong. The main point I got from the article and Ch 7 is that TESOL is every changing just like our world, classrooms, and students.
What interested me the most from the article was the focus on soicopolitical and geographical issues in TESOL. Mainly because of the quote "In postcolonial communities, recent edited collections on language policy articulate the dilemmas involved in planning the relative status of local languages and English in society and education" I am constantly interested in this topic because I find it astonishing that only TESOL teachers are taught about theses subject matters when mainstream teachers should know the effects of their language as well. Also I found it interesting how the language of English has been pluralized because of its political aspects that are surrounding it.
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