1st Edition

The Pedagogy and Practice of Western-trained Chinese English Language Teachers Foreign Education, Chinese Meanings

By Pu Hong, Faridah Pawan Copyright 2014
144 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Providing an East-West flow of language teaching knowledge and know-how to balance prevailing Western-centric perspectives, this book is an in-depth investigation of the impact of Western-based language teacher education on the pedagogy and practice of Chinese English language teachers who received their training in Western institutions or those that emphasize Western-based teaching approaches.... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Situated and "Glocalized" Understanding: Using Socio-cultural Perspectives as Lenses 3. Hits and Misses: Shifting Positions in Professional Development of Native Speaker and Non-Native Speaker English Teachers 4. Evolving Landscape: Chinese positions on Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) 5. The Middle Kingdom and beyond: The pathways to Chinese English Language teachers’ journeys overseas 6. Light and heat: The empowerment, validation and anguish of having been trained overseas 7. Taking ownership: The bridging of the local with the global in English language teaching 8. Changing from earth to sky: New policies and the ever changing role of Western-trained Chinese English Language teachers 9. A view from the mountain: Teachers’ personal reflections

Biography

Pu Hong is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Language Education and Vice President, Qujing Normal University, China

Faridah Pawan is Associate Professor in the Department of Literacy, Culture and Language Education, School of Education, Indiana University, US