Teaching English as an International Language Identity, Resistance and Negotiation

by Le Ha, Phan

• ISBN13: 9781847690494
• ISBN10: 1847690491
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-28
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Phan Le Ha is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Language, Culture and Identity	p. 25
The Politics of English as an International Language and English Language Teaching	p. 71
Identity Formation: Negotiations of Apparently Contradictory Roles and Selves	p. 104
Identity Formation: The Teacher and the Politics of ELT	p. 123
An EIL Teacher's Identity Formation: Kien	p. 160
Teacher Identity and the Teaching of English as an International Language	p. 178
References	p. 195
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