Re-Entering My Space: A Narrative Inquiry into Teaching English as a Foreign Language in an Imagined Third Space

Autor/inn/en	Ai, Bin; Wang, Lifei
Titel	Re-Entering My Space: A Narrative Inquiry into Teaching English as a Foreign Language in an Imagined Third Space
Quelle	In: Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 23 (2017) 2, S.227-240 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1354-0602
DOI	10.1080/13540602.2016.1203778
Schlagwörter	English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Cultural Context; Foreign Countries; Second Language Instruction; Teaching Methods; Language Teachers; Self Concept; Professional Identity; Teacher Attitudes; Teaching Experience; College Faculty; Grounded Theory; Participant Observation; China; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Ausland; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Selbstkonzept; Lehrerverhalten; Fakultät; Teilnehmende Beobachtung; Australien
Abstract	The purpose of this study is to reflect on my experience of teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in an inland Chinese university when I returned from Australia: I re-entered the space of EFL teaching, and experimented with a new model of teaching. In my experiment, I applied the concepts of third space and hybrid identity as a theoretical framework for teaching EFL. A personal narrative form is chosen to report and reflect on the experiment, as this is the form that directly expresses experience, allows for reflection on it, and is appropriate for studies of identity. Using anecdotes and reflection, I relate the observed responses of a cohort of Chinese EFL learners to this new EFL teaching model. From this account, reflections are drawn on the challenges that reform of traditional teacher-centred EFL methods in the Chinese cultural context brings to the learners, and by implication, the teacher, from the perspective of an insider (teacher) returning home from an outsider's third space as a learner in another culture. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01