Teaching English as an International Language : : Identity, Resistance and Negotiation / / Phan Le Ha.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Le Ha, Phan,
• MitwirkendeR: Edwards, Viv,; Ha, Phan Le,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language, Culture and Identity -- 3. The Politics of English as an International Language and English Language Teaching -- 4. Identity Formation: Negotiations of Apparently Contradictory Roles and Selves -- 5. Identity Formation: The Teacher and the Politics of ELT -- 6. An EIL Teacher’s Identity Formation: Kien -- 7. Teacher Identity and the Teaching of English as an International Language -- References