Titlebook: Language Teacher Education in a Multilingual Context; Experiences from Hon John Trent,Xuesong Gao,Mingyue Gu Book 2014 Springer Science+Bus

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It Is Not a Bad Idea for Me to Be a Language Teacher! acquire valued skills transferable to other professions including English competence. Facing challenges as non-local students, they were also uncertain of becoming teachers in the new context. This raises questions as to how these talented non-local teachers can be retained in Hong Kong’s schools.

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Cross-Border Pre-service Teachers in Hong Kong: Identity and Integrationas also found that they construct legitimacy in the professional community drawing on their own linguistic and cultural repertoire. This study offers a way of thinking about teacher formation as a process of identity development and extends understandings of the interconnected relations of discourse and identity in such contexts.

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A Comparative Study on Commitment to Teaching culturally unfamiliar context and tend to think of transferring their knowledge to other careers, Hong Kong participants develop an interest in putting the theory into practice and become more committed to teaching. The reasons underlying the differences are explored.

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An Ethico-political Analysis of Teacher Identity Constructionn. The findings indicate that teacher identities are contingent and constructed, and that the notion of the ethico-politics of teacher identity opens up scope for moving beyond the narrowing of focus on particular meanings of teaching and enables the teachers to build ethical agency for identity reformation and reconstruction.

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Introduction,e policy shifts and curriculum reform in many contexts. As ‘the one language-one nation ideology of language policy and national identity is no longer the only available one worldwide’, they face more challenges in their professional practice (Hornberger 2002, p. 29). Yet, very little research has e

Presbyopia

It Is Not a Bad Idea for Me to Be a Language Teacher!e to Hong Kong for the teacher education programme. The study revealed that these students were largely attracted to teaching in Hong Kong because of its extrinsic benefits such as professional stability, the prestige associated with the English language teaching profession, and the opportunities to

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Journeys Towards Teaching: Pre-service English Language Teachers’ Understandings and Experiences of apter continues to explore the perceived challenges of becoming an English language teacher in multilingual contexts such as Hong Kong from the perspective of local Hong Kong preservice teachers. The current chapter discusses the results of a qualitative study that aimed to explore how one group of

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Language Teachers and the Falling Language Standards in Hong Kong: An Internet-Based Inquiryeveres teachers. Instead I contend that cultural traditions, together with educational reforms and sociocultural changes, can also undermine the teaching profession. To this end, I report on an inquiry that explored the social censure of teachers, especially language teachers in Hong Kong. In the in