1st Edition
Non-Native English-Speaking Teachers Revisited Paradoxes in Multilingual Professionals' Identity Development
By Xuan Zheng
Copyright 2025
206 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
206 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Drawing on ethnographical evidence, this book examines the complexity of the controversial construct “Non-Native English-Speaking Teacher” (NNEST) and the newly proposed “translingual/translanguaging teacher” in re-scripting their identities.
Zheng examines the process of international graduate students’ learning to become composition teachers and English professionals in the United States. The... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Languaged Lives in Learning to Become English Professionals 3. Learning to Teach Composition: Negotiating the Enterprise 4. Learning to Teach Composition: Engaging Mutually 5. Learning to Teach Composition: Developing a Shared Repertoire 6. The Vulnerable Observer: Learning to Study NNESTs 7. Conclusion: Towards an Open Dialogue
Biography
Xuan Zheng is an Assistant Professor in the School of Foreign Languages, Peking University, China. Dr. Zheng holds a PhD in English from the University of Washington, USA. Her research interests include language education, identity, and intercultural communication.
