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Teaching English as an International Language
Phan Le Ha
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Description for Teaching English as an International Language
Paperback. Drawing on both Western and Asian theoretical frameworks, this book showcases the sophistications of the negotiations that EIL teachers have to make when their identities are challenged by values and practices that seem contradictory to their own. Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; EBA. Category: (L) ELT / TEFL. Dimension: 208 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
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 ... Read moreto 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.
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Product Details
Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Series
New Perspectives on Language and Education
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
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About Phan Le Ha
Phan Le Ha has recently been appointed Associate Professor of Education in the College of Education, The University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, after nearly a decade lecturing in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Her research interests include International Education, English as an International Language, Identity Studies, and Academic Writing.
Reviews for Teaching English as an International Language
This is an interesting and insightful book that uses both Western and Vietnamese theoretical resources to underscore the importance of understanding the shifting professional identities of a group of Vietnamese ESL teachers, as they struggle to come to terms with competing pressures, both national and transnational. It shows that these teachers stand at the vanguard of a new era in ... Read morewhich English represents the possibilities of greater intercultural understanding but also a hegemonic globalism that poses the risks of marginalizing other languages and cultural traditions.
Professor Fazal Rizvi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Phan Le Ha has fulfilled such a daunting task, especially in terms of epistemology. Her critical discussion of and engagement with both Western and non-Western philosophies and knowledge is one of the most powerful elements of the book that offers meaningful space to any of us, teachers of the English language, to relate, reflect and grow.
Associate Professor Jayakaran Mukundan, Universiti Putra Malaysia
Interestingly, the book has capably grappled with the existing notions of epistemology in the previous literature while making sense of the author’s own experiences in the classroom. Her discussion on epistemology as a driving force in developing modes of resistance both in her local setting and the wider context of the profession will surely be a lasting contribution to the complex processes that underlie the development of knowledge in the field for years to come. Most importantly, the application of auto-ethnography, which appears to be an underdeveloped method for research in English language teaching, makes this a welcome addition to the growing literature on the application of indigenous methods of investigation in the field. Since the expansion of hazy concepts such as epistemology and identity are adequately addressed in this book using the author’s own documented experiences, the use of auto-ethnography has the potential to draw similar/conflicting experiences among professionals across different cultures and settings.
Paolo Nino M. Valdez, De La Salle University Manila in Journal of Language, Identity & Education 10:5, 364-367 (2011) Show Less