Teaching and Learning of English: Journeys From the United States to China

• In Event: Transnational Teachers' Experiences and Identities

Abstract

A considerable number of international students who eventually return to their home countries to teach English receive training in the Western TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) programs. However, many dominant pedagogies and ideologies in these programs shaped by ethnocentrism are held as universal truths. In order to highlight linguistic teaching and translation as cultural and context-specific processes, this narrative inquiry argues the importance of focusing on teachers to examine the transnational field of TESOL. In this study, I explored the lived experiences of US-TESOL trained Chinese teachers of English, specifically how their identities and experiences shaped and were shaped by US-TESOL training and how they dealt with the knowledge transfer between the training and teaching settings.

Author

• Xiaoxuan Li, Florida State University
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