Teaching English As An International Language : Identity, Resistance and Negotiation

Ha, Phan Le

ISBN 10: 1847690483 / ISBN 13: 9781847690487

Published by Multilingual Matters, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Teaching English As An International Language : Identity, Resistance and Negotiation
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847690483
• ISBN 13: 9781847690487
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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).