Teaching English As an International Language - Identity, Resistance and Negotiation

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext Drawing on both Western and Asian theoretical frameworks, this book showcases the complexity of EIL teachers' roles as their identities are challenged by values and practices that seem contradictory to their own. It examines how their identities are constantly constructed and reconstituted through resistance and negotiation. Zusammenfassung Drawing on both Western and Asian theoretical frameworks, this book showcases the complexity of EIL teachers’ roles as their identities are challenged by values and practices that seem contradictory to their own. It examines how their identities are constantly constructed and reconstituted through resistance and negotiation.

Product details

• Authors: Phan Le Ha, Le Ha Phan
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2008
• EAN: 9781847690487
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-048-7
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education; New Perspectives on Language and Education; New Perspectives on Language a
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures