Overview

This up-close look at Chinese ESL teachers documents undertakings at formal and informal levels to support and sustain their expertise in ways that balance collaborative and competitive efforts, situated and standards-based programs, ethnically responsive and government-based efforts, and traditional and 21st-century teaching visions. English is a mandated subject for approximately 400 million Chinese public school students. Making transparent the training and professional development received respectively by pre-service and in-service teachers, this book provides a rare window into how Chinese English Language teachers (ELTs) reconcile the two needs with the responsibility to teach large numbers of students while also navigating societal, cultural, and institutional cross currents. It also explores the range of ways China invests in the training and professional development of its English language teachers.

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Author:   Faridah Pawan ,  Wenfang Fan ,  Pei Miao ,  Miao Pei
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.800kg
ISBN:  

9781138124493

ISBN 10:   1138124494
Pages:   164
Publication Date:   15 June 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT/ESL ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction: Situating Chinese English Language Teacher Training and Professional Development in Research and Policy Faridah Pawan Chapter 1: ""Filling the Pail Before the Cup"": Preparing to Be a Teacher Miao Pei, Faridah Pawan, and Wei Jin Chapter 2: Student Teaching: ""All the Sour, Sweet, Bitter, and Pungent Flavors Must Be Tested"" Miao Pei and Wei Jin Chapter 3: Permanent Teacher Qualifications: ""Surviving Within the Iron Rice Bowl"" Wenfang Fan, Ge Wang, and Xin Chen Chapter 4: Master-Novice (Shifu-Tudi) Teacher Relationships: Acquiring Knowledge From the Backbone of Experience Wenfang Fan Chapter 5: School-Based Professional Development With ""Jiaoyanzu"" Peers: Learning With Brothers and Sisters Faridah Pawan and Wenfang Fan Chapter 6: High-Stakes Public Teaching Competitions: Failure Is Not Falling but Failure Is Not Fetting up From Each Fall Faridah Pawan Chapter 7: The National Guo Pei Project for Rural Teachers: Opening Doors So That Others May Enter Miao Pei and Wei Jin Chapter 8: English Teacher Development in Rural and Ethnically Diverse Areas: Sowers Action Seeding the Fields Ge Wang Chapter 9: The Visiting Scholars Program: Adding a Flower to a Brocade Faridah Pawan and Xin Chen Chapter 10: New Chinese Education Reform Targets English: U.S. and Chinese Scholars’ Perspectives Faridah Pawan and Niya Yuan Index"

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Faridah Pawan is a professor in ESL/EFL teacher education in the Department of Literacy, Culture, and Language Education in the School of Education at Indiana University, USA. Wenfang Fan is a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Tsinghua University, People's Republic of China. Miao Pei is an associate professor in language pedagogy at the Center for Teacher Education Research in the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University, People's Republic of China.

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