Le Ha Teaching English as an International Language

Identity, Resistance and Negotiation
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84769-983-1
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 7, 180 Seiten

Reihe: New Perspectives on Language and Education

Building on both Western and Asian theoretical resources, the book examines how EIL teachers see themselves as professional and individual in relation to their work practices. It reveals the tensions, compromises, negotiations and resistance in their enactment of different roles and selves, especially when they are exposed to values often associated with the English-speaking West. The ways they perceive their identity formation problematise and challenge the seemingly dominant views of identity as always changing, hybrid and fragmented. Their experiences highlight the importance of the sense of belonging and being, connectedness, continuity and a coherent growth in identity formation. Their attachment to a particular locality and their commitment to perform the moral guide role as EIL teachers serve as the most powerful platform for all their other identities to be constructed, negotiated and reconstituted.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Le Ha, Phan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - Language, Culture and Identity

Chapter 3 - The Politics of English as an International Language and English Language Teaching

Chapter 4 - Identity Formation: Negotiations of Apparently Contradictory Roles and Selves

Chapter 5 - Identity Formation: The Teacher and the Politics of ELT

Chapter 6 - An EIL Teacher’s Identity Formation

Chapter 7 - Teacher Identity and The Teaching of English as an International Language

References

Über Autor(innen)

Le Ha, Phan
Phan Le Ha is Senior Professor in the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam, and in the Department of Educational Foundations, College of Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. She is the author of books including Transnational Education Crossing ‘Asia’ and 'the West': Adjusted Desire, Transformative Mediocrity, and Neo-colonial Disguise (2017, Routledge).

Phan Le Ha has recently been appointed Associate Professor of Education in the College of Education, The University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, after nearly a decade lecturing in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Her research interests include International Education, English as an International Language, Identity Studies, and Academic Writing.