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

ISBN-13: 9780415629362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 130 str.

Pu Hong

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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