This game is not easy to play: A narrative inquiry into a novice EFL teacher educator's research and publishing experiences

This game is not easy to play: A narrative inquiry into a novice EFL teacher educator's research and publishing experiences

• Yuan, Rui Eric The Hong Kong Institute of Education

Professional Development in Education, 2016

Routledge

2016

• F Learning & Teaching
  • FE Medium of Instruction, Language of Teaching, Bi-& Multilingual Education, Problems of Bilingualism, Code-mixing & Code-switching

Novice Teacher Educator Identity English as a Foreign Language Context Research and Publishing

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

Drawing on the approach of narrative inquiry, this study looks into how a novice language teacher educator constructed and reconstructed his professional identities through his research and publishing practice in the higher education context in Hong Kong. The findings of the study show that the participant constantly tried to defend and develop his identity as a ‘language teacher educator-researcher’, which was subjected to various contextual obstacles including the institutional policy, the ‘publish-or-perish’ culture and the potential bias against practice-oriented research and peripheral research contexts. This study contributes to our understanding of the challenges and complexities involved in novice teacher educators’ identity construction. The study also offers some practical implications for both language teacher education and higher education on how to help teacher educators construct a solid and strong researcher identity to support their professional practice and development.
[Copyright © 2016 International Professional Development Association (IPDA).]

• English

Journal Articles

• 19415257
• 19415265

• 10.1080/19415257.2016.1182936

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/8afce443

2016-07-18