Theorizing Practice, Practicing Theory: 12th International Language Teacher Education Conference
May 31–June 1, 2024
The Graduate Hotel, 615 Washington Avenue Southeast, Minneapolis, MN 55414
Teaching English, Being Chinese: Intricacies of Identity, Sociopolitical Ideologies, and EFL Teacher Education in China Today
Saturday, June 1, 2024 at 9:45 AM–10:15 AM CDT
Think 3
Session Type
Paper (30 minutes = 20 minutes paper presentation + 10 minutes discussion)
Program Summary
The paper explores how EFL teacher identity in China is shaped by sociopolitical ideologies and how teacher education can address the challenges and opportunities of this context. It uses narrative and autoethnographic methods to analyze teacher interviews and suggests transformative teacher learning and mediational space as pedagogical tools.
Lead Presenter/Organizer
Dong Zhao, Humboldt University of Berlin
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