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Chinese English Teachers’ Professional Identity

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This chapter will present the answer to the question: How do CETs perceive and (re)construct their professional identity as English teachers within the dominant ideology and disempowering discourses of native-speakerism? How do CETs’ actual classroom practices match or reflect their self-perceptions of their professional identity? The results from the one-to-one interviews with CETs will be reported, accompanied by data from diary study and focus groups, and illustrated by excerpts from classroom observation.

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Huang, Z. (2018). Chinese English Teachers’ Professional Identity. In: Native and Non-Native English Speaking Teachers in China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5284-2_6

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