TY  - GEN
AB  - This book provides a multifaceted, multilayered examination of the processes and challenges language teachers face in constructing their professional identities in multilingual contexts such as Hong Kong. It focuses on how professional and personal identities are enacted as individuals cross geographic, educational, and socio-cultural boundaries to become English language teachers in Hong Kong. It explores the construction of language teachers? professional identities from multiple perspectives in multiple settings, including pre-service and in-service teachers from Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Western countries. Understanding the difficulties and challenges these language teachers face in their identity and professional development is of relevance to teachers and teacher educators, as well as those interested in becoming language teachers in multilingual contexts.
AU  - Trent, John,
AU  - Gao, Xuesong,
AU  - Gu, Mingyue,
CN  - P118.152.C6
DO  - 10.1007/978-94-007-7392-9
DO  - doi
ID  - 722989
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Language teachers
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-94-007-7392-9
N2  - This book provides a multifaceted, multilayered examination of the processes and challenges language teachers face in constructing their professional identities in multilingual contexts such as Hong Kong. It focuses on how professional and personal identities are enacted as individuals cross geographic, educational, and socio-cultural boundaries to become English language teachers in Hong Kong. It explores the construction of language teachers? professional identities from multiple perspectives in multiple settings, including pre-service and in-service teachers from Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Western countries. Understanding the difficulties and challenges these language teachers face in their identity and professional development is of relevance to teachers and teacher educators, as well as those interested in becoming language teachers in multilingual contexts.
SN  - 9789400773929
SN  - 9400773927
SN  - 9400773919
SN  - 9789400773912
T1  - Language teacher education in a multilingual contextexperiences from Hong Kong /
TI  - Language teacher education in a multilingual contextexperiences from Hong Kong /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-94-007-7392-9
VL  - volume 6
ER  -